The host was Marc Maron, a New York comedian known for his strong political satire.
Claudel's libretto, sung here in the original French, intersperses poignancy with a strong element of satire.
The stories, illustrating the triumphs of virtue, honour, and quick-wittedness and the frustration of vice and hypocrisy, contain a strong element of satire directed against licentious and grasping monks and clerics.
He added: "Basically, we're all just sarcastic.There's a strong tradition of satire here, which is centuries old.I think that in an American studio, you would run the risk of being entirely serious and straight-faced, whereas there is subversion in G.T.A. all the way through.It's black humor".
BBC - Coventry and Warwickshire Stage - Eastward Ho! Strong performance, energy, satire in Eastward Ho! Strong characters in the RSC's Eastwood Ho OurreviewereratesEastwardard Ho! as a city comedy for the twenty first century with strong performances, energy and satire.
Similarly, The New York Timess Adam W. Kepler opined that the episode displayed Orphan Black "finest qualities (strong characterisation, dark satire and shocking moments) and its worst (odd pacing and ropey plotting)".
The satire is strong with this one!
"I think what makes the Onion's satire so strong," she told me, "is that it's very straight.
Jane Austen's three early novels form a distinct group in which a strong element of literary satire accompanies the comic depiction of character and society.
