#satire

#satire

A crack of thunder, a flash of light, and a sulfurous mist flooded my apartment. Marax, President of Hell, stood before me. Marax entered my summoning circle, eyes burning with unholy fire, and I gave him the stack of homework to flip through while I brushed my teeth. Marax marked up the papers and fleshed out my bullet points into thoughtful feedback before I even got to my molars. Then-three hours of my life, saved!-I banished him back to Hell.

TR-49 is analogy rendered in four dimensions. On a surface level, it's a game about sorting through an archive of written works and commentary that has you identifying dozens of excerpts and documents, all with the aim of destroying a particular work. Beneath the surface, however, this is a piece of art that speaks viciously and satirically to so much of our reality.

Two graveyard shift nurses pray their patients pass overnight simply to cure their boredom. A crazed therapist tries to convince a victim that the perfect coping mechanism is matricide. The government rounds up and ships off the infected to a quarantined archipelago named Hell Gay Land. Forty years on from its release, the first notable feature-length film to tackle the AIDS crisis-dark German comedy A Virus Knows No Morals -undoubtedly remains the most provocative.

a sense of what it's doing and where it's going and whisper it even a touch of commentary on the state of society today. It's almost like old American anthology days, when Murphy threw the likes of The People v OJ Simpson, Feud and The Assassination of Gianni Versace at us one after the other; leasing new lives to Sarah Paulson, Jessica Lange and assorted other glorious figures, and having us believe the good times would roll for ever.

Based on how members of the Trump administration rushed to describe Renee Nicole Good, the Minneapolis woman who was shot and killed in her minivan while protesting ICE, as a "domestic terrorist," a "professional agitator," and an "anti-ICE rioter" behind the wheel of a "thousand-pound missile," here is how they might describe her dropping off her son at school just before she was killed.

The Onion doesn't do brand safety. In fact, the less brand safe, the better. Working for The Onion is like "leaning into all of my worst habits," quips CMO Leila Brillson on this week's episode of AdExchanger Talks. There aren't many topics that The Onion shies away from, instead embracing jokes about Jeffrey Epstein and proposing deeply unappetizing RFK Jr.-approved alternatives to Halloween candy.

HAPPY NEW YEAR, BRAINY BUTT! It's time once again to put your brainy-brain to the test with this week's edition of POP QUIZ PDX -our weekly, local, sassy-ass trivia quiz. And this week we'll be testing your knowledge on recent, local happenings, including realistic fake IDs, questionable New Year's resolutions, and Donald Trump's Parade of Dipshits! (It's like a parade that never ends! 😑)

Toby Morton, a TV writer and producer who has worked on the long-running and joyfully offensive sitcom, said he purchased the domain in August after predicting the president would change the name from the Kennedy Center to the Trump Kennedy Center after he installed himself as chair and stocked the board with loyalists. The name change has brought turbulence to the institution, with several performers abruptly pulling out of scheduled concerts in protest.

From Jeff Bezos commandeering Venice for his lavish wedding at a time of a growing backlash over inequality, to the spectacle of Donald Trump returning to office for a second term, the material was endless for cartoonists, though often difficult to navigate. The less surreal included violence against Palestinians in Gaza by Israel, the entrenchment of the Russia-Ukraine war, the threat AI posed to human creativity and the return of the far right across Europe and the US.

Feiffer was America's premier satirical cartoonist,

Those Crazy World Cup Soccer Fans Sensual Female Portraits By The Russian Painter Andrei Markin Dad Shows What Would Happen If Kid's Drawings Became Reality Sensual Paintings Created With Liquid Resin By Jessica Dunegan Photographer Set Out To Capture The Personalities Of Animals Who Adapt To Their Damaged Or Different Bodies Without Complaint Artist Takes A Different Drug Every Day And Draws A Self-Portrait Under The Influence, Suffers Brain Damage

The year of our landlord 2025 could have been better. It is no wonder the Irish Independent has turned to me, the revered temporary deputy stand-in editor at Waterford Whispers News and renowned philanthropist, landlord and man of the people Bill Badbody, to put a positive spin on things. Where some people see a world on fire, I see kindling to warm your hands over on a cold night and, if you are lucky enough, profit from.

If the phrase "military industrial complex romantic comedy" rings your bells, Hailey Gates' feature directorial debut " Atropia" just might be for you. What if we told you it's also a bit of a satire? And it's based on real events and places? And it stars Alia Shawkat and Callum Turner, whose forbidden romance really blossoms inside the confines of, well, no spoilers here, but a decidedly unsexy space?

(Yes, Fackham rhymes with a crass kiss-off to the aristocracy.) Written by British Irish comedian and TV presenter Jimmy Carr and directed by Jim O'Hanlon, Fackham Hall has plenty of material to work with the historical soap's grand finale just premiered in September, 15 years after Julian Fellowes's series started going upstairs-downstairs with ludicrous portent and wastes none of it.

Painted sometime in the Rameside Period (1292-1075 B.C.E.), the fragments above-called the "Turin Erotic Papyrus" because of their "discovery" in the Egyptian Museum of Turin, Italy-only hint at the frank versions of ancient sex they depict (see a graphic partial reconstruction at the bottom of the post-probably NSFW). The number of sexual positions the papyrus illustrates-twelve in all-"fall somewhere between impressively acrobatic and unnervingly ambitious," one even involving a chariot.

Missing You Did you know the moon was so old It might have to go into a home? It keeps edging nearer The way old people do. Goya wore candles on his hat But Humphrey Davy invented the miner's lamp. On Enceladus a day is longer than a year. Tonight, we have the Spanish Civil War. You can't go on like this, moon, Peering into people's bedrooms And the stars have their own lives to lead. When did you last think of Cassiopeia? Really? Think!

One of the goals of the Pseutro is encouraging conversation through shared laughter. "I care about being engaged to make the city a better place," they said. "That means that, also, I want to help other people do the same." To help ground the satire, all the articles that inspired the posts are linked via Linktree in the bio. While recent posts about Alcaraz and Supervisor Connie Chan 's congressional campaign drew strong reactions,

Women are ruining the workplace. Before women, of course, the workplace was perfect. It was full of trees. There was no need to labor with your hands. You didn't have to wear pants, or any form of clothes. Every kind of animal was there. You could just sit around all day and call, "Quiet. Quiet, piggy!"and nobody batted an eye, except for the pigs. It was your job to name them.

It takes a certain kind of advertiser to want to promote its brand alongside a headline like "RFK Jr. Greets Trick-Or-Treaters With Big Bowl Of Ape Glands." That's a real headline on The Onion, by the way. It's no surprise, then, that the satirical news site has to get creative with its marketing and monetization, CMO Leila Brillson told AdExchanger. Unlike other well-known publishers, name recognition doesn't automatically make The Onion a desirable advertising partner. Or, rather, it depends.

Salem-born Collins became The Onion's CEO in 2024 and has since revived its subscription-based print paper, which is shipped to more than 50 countries and across all states. Under Collins, The Onion also attempted to buy the disinformation website Infowars from conspiracy-theorist Alex Jones. (A judge halted the purchase attempt last December for concerns over the bidding process, but an August ruling paved the way for The Onion to renew its bid.)

Sylvia has a pretty simple secret to how he kept the show's twists and turns straight: "We started writing Season 2 before season one had even aired," he tells Meredith, noting that the writers' room opened while he was still in post-production. That meant he wasn't writing to online reactions: "I didn't have to worry about the audience's response," he says, calling the freedom surprisingly liberating.

In fact, we here at The Late Show were able to acquire a copy of Trump's MRI, Colbert said, sharing a mock scan of the president. And it looks it looks perfect. He paused before another graphic appeared, zoomed in on Trump's abdomen: Wait a second, what's that in his stomach? It's the Epstein files! That's where they were! I knew it, Colbert said, riffing on the suspicions the administration and Republican lawmakers were deliberately stalling on their release.

That being said, I want to be clear. The victims of this Administration are not the comedians. We are a visible manifestation of certain things, but the victims are the victims-they're the people who are struggling to have any voice and are being forcibly removed from streets by hooded agents. Those are the victims of this Administration. I'm not sure Hitler cared about satirists, but I think this guy does. I don't think he likes being made fun of.