Sentence examples for bad satire from inspiring English sources
Eventually, the piece was awarded the ultimate trophy for excellence in bad satire: a Snopes.com article debunking it.
"If Gunn's list is satire, it's bad satire, because it skews incredibly close to material that's not only already out there, but that comes from official media and in some cases industry professionals," Edidin writes.
The series debuted to ambivalent reviews, with Matthew Gilbert of The Boston Globe commenting that Lovespring International is "a lively little cable exercise in over-the-top characters, bad taste, satire, and political incorrectness".
Soon it was obvious that not only were PKD's books – with their combination of metaphysical speculation, social satire, bad relationships, and fantastic ideas tossed out as mere afterthoughts – bizarre and wonderful, but that Dick the man was Seriously Weird.
The glossy 140-page Mardi Gras catalog, paid for by sponsors in the travel, media and liquor businesses, lists camp comedy, feminist concerts, "queer culture, soft-porn exhibitionism, artful bad taste," social satire, sidewalk painting and plays with messages from the gay world's frontiers.
"Their satire was bad, and remains bad.
And bad taste is what satire is often accused of.
This might be dead-on satire of bad television, but it's no more entertaining than the thing being satirized.
Then again, as long as bad theater inspires good satire, it's worth sticking around just to see what Mr. Alessandrini and company come up with next.
