Category: satire

And a Really Brief, Fantastic Example of Satire:

Charlie Sheen commentary via The Onion. Enjoy. =)

March 12, 2011
Satire III: Wodehouse, WWII Radio Broadcasts, and When Is Satire Okay?

Now we are back to satire and our mentor: P.G. Wodehouse. During WWII many British citizens were in direct danger — in the bombings of London like our recent mentor Virginia Woolf, and those abroad in Europe when Germany came a-knockin’. Like our current mentor P.G. Wodehouse, who was in France when the Nazis rolled…

March 11, 2011
Satire II: The Political Sphere of Satire; The Fine Line

Okay, deep breath. Politics will be mentioned today but I want to be very clear that I’m only talking politics insofar as its relationship with satire. We’ve established that satire is generally presented as a ludicrous solution to a real social problem. The difficulty lies in the fact that different people consider different things ludicrous.…

March 9, 2011
Satire I: Definitions, the Trick of It, and A Modest Proposal

When we’re talking about a guy like Wodehouse, humorist extraordinaire, it’s impossible not to talk about satire. So we’re going to pause our regularly scheduled programming to talk less about our mentor directly (don’t worry, it’ll come back around) and talk in more general terms about satire itself–which we’ll define as a comeuppance to society…

March 7, 2011