Notable_Satirists


 * Early**
 * Middle**
 * Modern**
 * (1800-1900)**
 * (1900-1930)**
 * (1930-1960)**
 * (1960-present)**

EARLY

Decimus Junius Juvenalis (Juvenal) Aristophanes from: http://www.nottheonion.com/history.php
 * first and early second century
 * Greek playwright
 * famous for his political satire
 * in which he criticized the powerful Cleon the Knights and for the persecution he underwent

Horace
 * Roman satirist
 * wrote "Satires," a collection of poetry written to make fun of people but not necessarily humiliate them
 * his structure is the model for modern satire

Obeid e Zakani
 * introduced satire into Persia
 * 14th century
 * Works: " Among his works are the [|Musnavi] and [|Mush o-gorbeh (Mouse and Cat)] "

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&um=1&hl=en&safe=active&q=stephen+colbert&btnG=Search+Images
 * Satirists of Today**
 * Stephen Colbert
 * Stephen Colbert acts like a rediculously die hard republican to get across his real views on politics in a entertaining way. He is more effective at getting across his message because more people are likely to watch a show that is amusing than a show that is boring and dry.

Jon Stewart http://nymag.com/images/2/daily/entertainment/07/06/15_stewart_lgl.jpg


 * Early satirical authors**


 * [|Aesop] (c. 620-560 BCE) - //Fables//
 * [|Aristophanes] (c. 448-380 BCE) //[|The Frogs]//, //[|The Birds]//, and //[|The Clouds]//
 * [|Gaius Lucilius] (c. 180-103 BCE) - //Books//
 * [|Horace] (65-8 BCE)//[|Sermones]//
 * [|Ovid] (43 BCE to 17 CE) - //[|The Art of Love]//
 * [|Petronius] (c. 27-66 CE) - //[|Satyricon]//
 * [|Juvenal] (1st to early 2nd centuries CE) - //[|Satires]//
 * [|Lucian] (c. 120-180 CE)
 * [|Apuleius] (c. 123-180 CE) - //[|The Golden Ass]//
 * Various Authors (9th century CE) - [|The Thousand and One Nights]

Middle satirists

 * [|Obeid e zakani] (?-1370), //[|Akhlaq al-Ashraf]// ("Ethics of the Aristocracy")
 * [|Giovanni Boccaccio] (1313 to 1375) - //[|The Decameron]//
 * [|Chaucer] (c. 1343 – 1400) __Canterbury Tales__
 * "estates satire"
 * criticizes the various estates or classes of society
 * http://courseweb.stthomas.edu/medieval/chaucer/canterburytales.htm
 * [|Erasmus] (1466 to 1536) - //[|The Praise of Folly]//
 * [|François Rabelais] (c. 1493 to 1553) -- "Gargantua", "Pantagruel"
 * [|Miguel de Cervantes] (1547 to 1616) - //[|Don Quixote]//
 * [|'Martin Marprelate'] (true identity unknown) - [|Marprelate Tracts] published 1588-89
 * [|Samuel Butler] (1612-1680) - //[|Hudibras]//
 * [|Molière] (1622 – 1673)
 * [|John Dryden] (1631-1700)
 * [|John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester] (1647-1680)
 * [|Jonathan Swift] (1667 to 1745) - //[|Gulliver's Travels]//, //[|A Modest Proposal]//
 * [|John Gay] (1685-1732) - //[|The Beggar's Opera]//
 * [|Alexander Pope] (1688 to 1744)
 * [|Voltaire] (1694-1778) - //[|Candide]//
 * criticizes the Gottfried Leibniz and optimists in general
 * "Voltaire refused to believe that what happens is always for the best."
 * http://www.teachervision.fen.com/literature/resource/4432.html
 * [portrait; see google docs]
 * http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/v/voltaire/voltaire.jpg
 * [|James Bramston](1694 - 1744)
 * [|Henry Fielding] (1707 – 1754)
 * [|Laurence Sterne] (1713 to 1768) - //[|Tristram Shandy]//
 * [|James Beresford] (1764 - 1840) //[|The Miseries of Human Life]//

[[|edit]] Modern satirists (born 1800-1900)

 * [|Edgar Allan Poe] (1809-1849) - "[|The Man That Was Used Up]", "[|A Predicament]"
 * [|Charles Dickens] (1812-1870) – ‘’[|Hard Times]’’
 * [|Lewis Carroll] (1832-1898)
 * [|James Russell Lowell] (1819–1891)
 * [|Mark Twain] (1835-1910) -"[|Huckleberry Finn]", "[|A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court]", "[|The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County]"
 * [|Ambrose Bierce] (1842–1914?) - //[|The Devil's Dictionary]//, //Tales of Soldiers and Civilians//
 * [|Samuel "Erewhon" Butler] (1835–1902)
 * [|Jaroslav Hasek] (Czech)
 * [|George Derby] (US) ([|April 3], [|1823]–[|May 15], [|1861]) AKA John P. Squibob, John Phoenix
 * [|Alfred Jarry] (French)
 * [|Thomas Nast] (1840–1902)
 * [|Oscar Wilde] (1854–1900)
 * [|H.L. Mencken] (US)
 * [|Anatole France] (1844–1924)
 * [|Jalil Mammadguluzadeh] (1866–1931) (Azerbaijani)
 * [|H.H. Munro] aka *[|Saki] (1870–1916)
 * [|Radoje Domanovic] (1873-1908)
 * [|Iraj Mirza] (1874 - 1926)
 * [|Karl Kraus] (1874 - 1936)
 * [|Will Rogers] (1879–1935)
 * [|James Branch Cabell] (1879-1958)
 * [|Ali Akbar Dehkhoda] (1879–1959)
 * [|P. G. Wodehouse]
 * [|Kurt Tucholsky] (1890-1935)
 * [|Mikhail Bulgakov] (1891-1940) - //[|The Master and Margarita]//
 * [|Aldous Huxley] (1894-1963) - //[|Point Counter Point]//, //[|Brave New World]//
 * [|Josep Pla] (1897-1981) - //[|Nocturn de primavera]//, //[|El carrer estret]//

Modern satirists (born 1900-1930)

 * [|Evelyn Waugh] (1903-1966)
 * [|George Orwell] (1903-1950) - //[|Animal Farm]//, //[|Nineteen Eighty-Four]//
 * [|Malcolm Muggeridge] (1903-1990) (UK)
 * [|Kurt Vonnegut] (1922-2007) - //[|Breakfast of Champions],// "[|Cat's Cradle]"
 * [|Lenny Bruce] (1925-1966) - Stand-up comedian
 * [|Joseph Heller] (1923-1999) - //[|Catch-22]//
 * [|Günter Grass] (1927-) - //[|The Tin Drum]//, //[|Cat and Mouse]//
 * [|Stanley Kubrick] (1928-1999) - //[|Dr. Strangelove]//
 * [|Tom Lehrer] (1928-) (US)
 * [|Ray Bradbury] (US)
 * [|William Burroughs] (US)
 * [|Dario Fo] (Italy)
 * [|Flannery O'Connor] (US)
 * [|C. Northcote Parkinson] (UK)
 * [|Anna Russell] (UK)
 * [|Gore Vidal] (US)

Modern satirists (born 1930-1960)

 * [|Tom Lehrer] (1928-) - //[|That Was the Year That Was]//, musician
 * [|Mordecai Richler] (1931-2001) (Canada)
 * [|Tom Wolfe] (1931-) - //[|The Bonfire of the Vanities]//
 * [|Robert Anton Wilson] (1932-2007) //[|Illuminatus!]//
 * [|Barry Humphries] (1934-) "My Gorgeous Life", "The Life and Death of Sandy Stone", stage shows
 * [|Alan Bennett] (1934-) (UK)
 * [|Dudley Moore] (1935-2002) (UK)
 * [|Woody Allen] (1935-) (US)
 * [|George Carlin](1937-) (stand-up comedian)
 * [|Peter Cook] (1937-1995) - //British [|Satire boom]//, //[|Beyond the Fringe]//
 * [|Eleanor Bron] (1938-) (UK)
 * [|David Frost] (1939) (UK)
 * [|Frank Zappa] (1940-1993) - //[|We're Only In It For The Money]//
 * [|Kioumars Saberi Foumani] (1941-2004)
 * [|Garrison Keillor] (1942-) (US)
 * [|Lewis Black] (1948) - Stand up Comic, "Daily Show"
 * [|Jonathan Meades] (1947-) (UK) - writer, broadcaster, satirist
 * [|Terry Pratchett] (1948-) - The //[|Discworld]// book series
 * [|Garry Trudeau] (1948-) (US)
 * [|Christopher Guest] (1948-) (US) - "[|This is Spinal Tap]", "[|Waiting for Guffman]"
 * [|Gary Larson] (1950-) (US) - cartoonist
 * [|Steve Bell] (1951-)
 * [|Al Franken] (1951-) (US)
 * [|Christopher Buckley] (1952-) - //[|Thank You for Smoking]//, //[|The White House Mess]//
 * [|Douglas Adams] (1952-2001) (UK)
 * [|Carl Hiaasen] (1953-) - //[|Tourist Season]//, //[|Double Whammy]//, //[|Basket Case]//, //[|Skinny Dip]//
 * [|Matt Groening] (1954-) (US) //[|The Simpsons]//, //[|Futurama]//
 * [|George C. Wolfe] (1954-) - "The Colored Museum"
 * [|Howard Stern] (1954-) (US)
 * [|Jonathan Miller] (1954-) (UK)
 * [|Ziad Rahbani] (1956-) (Lebanon)
 * [|David Sedaris] (1956-) (US)
 * [|Scott Adams] (1957-) (US)
 * [|"Weird Al" Yankovic] (1959-) (US)
 * [|Hugh Laurie] (1959-) (UK)
 * [|Stephen Fry] (1957-) (UK)
 * [|Wayne Federman] (1957-) (US)
 * [|Jello Biafra] (1958-) - //[|Dead Kennedys]//
 * [|Ebrahim Nabavi] (1958-), winner of [|Prince Claus Award] (2005)
 * [|Robert Zubrin] (US)
 * [|Josh Flannery] {Canada}
 * [|Craig Brown] (UK)
 * [|Dave Barry] (1947-) - [|Pulitzer Prize] winning humour columnist

Modern satirists (born 1960-present)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_satirists_and_satires
 * [|Bill Hicks] (1961-1994) - stand-up comedian
 * [|Bob Odenkirk] (1962-) - //[|Mr. Show]//, //[|Saturday Night Live]//, //[|The Larry Sanders Show]//
 * [|Jon Stewart] (1962-) - //[|The Daily Show]//
 * [|David Cross] (1964-) - //[|Mr. Show]//, //[|Arrested Development]//
 * [|Stephen Colbert] (1964-) - //[|The Colbert Report]//, //[|The Daily Show]//
 * [|Chris Morris] (1965-) - //[|Brass Eye], [|The Day Today]//
 * [|Michael "Atters" Attree] (UK)
 * [|Charlie Brooker] - //[|Nathan Barley]//
 * Stoney Burke (US)
 * [|John Cann] (At Large)
 * [|Dave Chappelle] (US)
 * [|Bret Easton Ellis] (1964-)
 * Mark Garrison (US)
 * Sean Hewlett (US)[|The Big Foam Finger]
 * Scott Harris (US)[|The Big Foam Finger]
 * [|Scott Dikkers] (US)
 * [|Sabina Guzzanti] (Italy)
 * [|Mike Judge] (US)
 * [|Victor Lewis-Smith] - //[|TV Offal]//
 * [|Daniele Luttazzi] (Italy)
 * [|Seth MacFarlane] - [|Family Guy]
 * [|P. Bateman] - [|MEGArant.com] (US)
 * [|Aaron McGruder] (US)
 * [|Lisa Kennedy Montgomery] (US)
 * [|Little Marvin] (US)
 * [|Chris Morris (satirist)] - //[|Brass Eye]//, //[|Nathan Barley]//
 * [|The Moustache Brothers] (Mandalay, Myanmar)
 * [|Ebrahim Nabavi] (Iran)
 * [|Chuck Palahniuk] - //[|Fight Club]//
 * [|Douglas Coupland] - //[|Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture]//
 * [|Trey Parker] - //[|South Park]//
 * [|Kioumars Saberi Foumani] (Iran)
 * [|Amy Sedaris] (US)
 * [|Dan Dove] (1977-) - //[|Dan Dove Waxes Sarcastic]//
 * [|Matt Stone] - //[|South Park]//
 * [|Orl Unho] (US)
 * [|Sarah Silverman] (1970-) - //[|The Sarah Silverman Program]//, //[|The Aristocrats]//, //[|The Larry Sanders Show]//
 * [|Sacha Baron Cohen] (1971-) - //[|Borat]//, //[|Da Ali G Show]//
 * [|Jhonen Vasquez] (1974-) [|Johnny The Homicidal Maniac], [|Squee], etc.
 * [|George Ouzounian] (1978-) - Well known Internet author of //[|The Best Page In The Universe]//
 * [|Erik Larsen] (1962 - present) "[|The Savage Dragon]" comic book from Image Comics.
 * [|Brandon Aslett] (1981 - present)
 * [|Ian Hislop] (1960-) - //[|Private Eye]//
 * [|Rick Mercer] (1969-) - //[|The Rick Mercer Report]//
 * [|Chris Lilley] (Present) - //[|Summer Heights High, We Can Be Heroes, The Big Bite]//
 * [|Chris Taylor] (Present) - Member of the Chaser
 * [|Craig Reucassel] (Present) - Member of the Chaser
 * [|Julian Morrow] (Present) - Member of the Chaser
 * [|Charles Firth] (Present) - Member of the Chaser
 * [|Chas Licciardello] (Present) - Member of the Chaser
 * [|Andrew Hansen] (Present) - Member of the Chaser
 * [|Dominic Knight] (Present) - Member of the Chaser

 http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Satirists
 * __What is Satire?__**
 * [|Genre] of literary or dramatic work that ridicules human pretensions or exposes social evils. Satire is related to [|parody] in its intention to mock, but satire tends to be more subtle and to mock an attitude or a belief, whereas parody tends to mock a particular work (such as a poem) by imitating its style, often with purely comic intent.
 * The Roman poets [|Juvenal] and [|Horace] wrote //Satires//, and the form became popular in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries, used by [|Voltaire] in France and by Alexander [|Pope] and Jonathan [|Swift] in England. Both satire and parody are designed to appeal to the intellect rather than the emotions and both, to be effective, require a knowledge of the original attitude, person, or work that is being mocked (although much satire, such as //Gulliver's Travels// by Swift, can also be enjoyed simply on a literal level).


 * In western European literature, satire has been an accepted form of social commentary since the 5th century B.C., principally in the form of [|plays][|poetry]. [|Aristophanes], a Greek [|http://www.bookrags.com/Satire#|__playwright__], is one of the best known early satirists. Other prominent satirists from antiquity include [|Horace] and [|Juvenal], who were active during the early days of the [|Roman Empire] and are the two most influential [|Latin] satirists.


 * More direct social commentary via satire did not return until the 16th century, when farcical texts such as the works of [|François Rabelais] tackled more serious issues (and incurred the wrath of the crown as a result). But the greatest satirists emerged with the [|Age of Enlightenment], an intellectual movement in the 17th and 18th century advocating rationality. Here, astute and biting satire of institutions and individuals became a popular weapon. Foremost among these is [|Jonathan Swift] (1667-1745), arguably the greatest prose satirist in the [[[|http://www.bookrags.com/Satire#|__English__] __language__]].
 * [|John Dryden]also wrote an influential essay on satire that helped fix its definition in the literary world. In the 19th century, [|Mark Twain] became the best-known American satirist, publishing satires in a variety of forms, including [|news satire] and full-length books.
 * In the 20th century, satire has been used by authors such as [|Aldous Huxley] and [|George Orwell] to make serious and even frightening commentaries on the dangers of the sweeping social changes taking place throughout Europe. A more humorous brand of satire enjoyed a renaissance in the [|UK] in the early [|1960s] with the //Satire Boom//, led by such luminaries as [|Peter Cook], [|Alan Bennett], [|Jonathan Miller], [|David Frost], [|Eleanor Bron] and [|Dudley Moore] and the [|http://www.bookrags.com/Satire#|__television__] programme //[|That Was The Week That Was]//. It continues to be a popular form of social commentary and expression today, although there is an increasing perception that satire must be explicitly humorous, which has not always been the case.

http://www.bookrags.com/Satire

AL GORE and manbearpig. courtesy of Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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Lil' bush and company... Http://abcnews.go.com

Matt Stone and Trey Parker....creators of South Park http://l.yimg.com/img.tv.yahoo.com/tv/us/img/site/55/52/0000015552_20060921055811.jpg


 * __Trey Parker and Matt stone__**
 * Trey Parker and Matt Stone are the writers for the show, South Park. Even if it could be quite vulgar, every episode connects with something that is going on in the world today.

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 * __Jonathan Swift- A Modest Proposal (A highly respected satirical article)__**
 * Suggests that the Irish people could ease their economic problems by selling their children to wealthy men and women