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The 172 pages that link to Satire, each with the reason it gives.

• HoaxCompared with: Satire may imitate false claims but signals its critical or comic purpose rather than posing as fact.

• La dolce vitaNarrower topic: The film uses comic excess to expose the hollowness behind elite social display.

• PanegyricCompared with: Satire can puncture the inflated claims that panegyric makes.

• The National Lampoon Radio HourNarrower topic: Its sketches used ridicule and exaggeration to target contemporary culture and authority.

• William CongreveRelated: His fashionable characters reveal social pretension through their own polished speech.

• CarnivalesqueRelated: Carnivalesque laughter can mock institutions without becoming limited to direct critique.

• Comic personaRelated: A comedian’s persona may supply the viewpoint through which satire is delivered.

• Literary allusionRelated: Allusions give satire a shared target or standard against which present behavior can be judged.

• Poetry and politicsRelated: Political poems use satire to undermine authority without making a direct argument.

• The CorrectionsRelated: Its treatment of consumer culture, professional ambition, and family self-deception often uses satirical pressure.

• The Rape of the LockNarrower topic: The poem’s comic treatment of vanity and status exemplifies satire’s mixture of entertainment and criticism.

• American comedyRelated: Satire is a recurring mode within American comedy, not a separate national tradition.

• American humorRelated: American writers and performers use satire to challenge political power and social conventions.

• Cambridge FootlightsRelated: Footlights performers have used satire to turn current affairs into stage comedy.

• CandideNarrower topic: Candide’s episodic absurdities attack doctrines, institutions, and abuses of power.

• Didactic literatureRelated: Satire may teach through criticism, but its defining method is ridicule.

• Gonzo journalismRelated: Gonzo often turns the reporter’s own excesses into satire of the subjects and culture observed.

• H. L. MenckenRelated: Satire was Mencken’s sharpest instrument against political pomposity and social conformity.

• JokeCompared with: Satire has a critical target beyond provoking laughter, though it can use jokes.

• Karl KrausNarrower topic: Kraus made satire a vehicle for attacking public language and institutions.

• Political fictionRelated: Satire can attack political rhetoric and institutions without treating them realistically.

• Surreal humorCompared with: Satire aims its comedy at a target, while surreal humor may have no explicit object of critique.

• TrollingCompared with: Satire may offend, but its purpose is criticism rather than disruption for its own sake.

• Ambrose BierceNarrower topic: His definitions and journalism repeatedly use ridicule to attack public pretensions.

• Ihara SaikakuRelated: His stories often puncture pretensions through comic attention to money and status.

• Old LatinRelated: Ennius and Lucilius helped shape early Roman forms of satirical writing.

• American GothicRelated: Wood rejected the idea that he had mocked rural people, but the image often functions satirically in popular culture.

• ApuleiusRelated: The novel’s comic episodes mock greed, sexual misconduct, superstition, and social pretension.

• AsterixNarrower topic: The adventures use ancient conflicts to poke fun at modern institutions and behavior.

• Dave ChappelleNarrower topic: His sketches use satire to expose racial stereotypes and political contradictions.

• Eric IdleRelated: Idle’s Python work repeatedly satirizes institutions, celebrities, and social conventions.

• Mary McCarthyNarrower topic: Satire is the broader mode through which McCarthy often challenged social pretensions.

• Ricky GervaisRelated: His work often mixes character-based embarrassment with satire of workplace and celebrity culture.

• Sarah SilvermanRelated: Her jokes often use mockery to probe religion, politics, and social taboos.

• Social commentaryRelated: Its distortions make social conventions and abuses visible.

• Trey ParkerRelated: Parker’s writing often turns current events and public controversies into targets for comic criticism.

• 30 RockRelated: The series uses exaggeration to mock television, corporate power, and celebrity culture.

• A Modest ProposalNarrower topic: Swift uses satire to attack policies and attitudes that treat poverty as a problem of management.

• Dead SoulsNarrower topic: Gogol uses comic distortion to indict greed, vanity, and bureaucratic self-deception.

• Edith SitwellRelated: Her early work used comic sound and caricature to satirize social manners.

• Paddy ChayefskyRelated: Network applies satire to television executives, corporate ownership, and audience appetite.

• Robert CrumbRelated: His stories use grotesque humor to expose hypocrisy and countercultural pretensions.

• The Golden AssRelated: The novel’s comic treatment of sex, status, and credulity complicates its sacred conclusion.

• A. D. HopeRelated: Hope’s satirical poems target sexual hypocrisy, cultural pretension, and intellectual fashion.

• Amy SchumerRelated: Many sketches use exaggeration to expose gendered double standards.

• ConceptismoRelated: Quevedo used Conceptista compression and wordplay to sharpen social and political attacks.

• Dark humorNarrower topic: Dark humor often serves satire, though it can also entertain without a reforming aim.

• Denis FonvizinNarrower topic: Fonvizin uses ridicule to make ignorance and social pretension visible onstage.

• John OliverNarrower topic: Satire is the broader mode through which Oliver turns research into criticism.

• Lao SheRelated: Comic ridicule lets his writing criticize bureaucracy, hypocrisy, and social convention.