Most of those caricatures came out of England in the 18th and 19th centuries, though their victims in the lesser nations often adopted them enthusiastically.
A new burlesque played at the Court Theatre on Wednesday night owes an attraction, which is said to have been cordially appreciated by the audience, to the circumstance of its including vivid caricatures of Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Lowe, and Mr. Ayrton among the characters represented.
The majority of residents are not portrayed as tabloid-ready caricatures, however, but as a close-knit community on the right side of the law: Sue prepares to become a grandmother again, while best friend Julie – whose disabled son Reagan has passed away since the programme was filmed – celebrates her birthday with family.
As it propagates perverse caricatures of communities brimming with the feckless and the idle, the actual situation facing people around the UK is airbrushed out of the picture.
One of my favourite caricatures by Charlie Hebdo was one featuring the prophet Muhammad being beheaded by an extremist.
"Everyone who knows Zaur says he is deeply religious person and like all Muslims was very shocked by the actions of Charlie [Hebdo] and by comments supporting the printing of the caricatures," wrote Kadyrov.
And, when he's not busy groping women the show regularly uses little people as caricatures, employs exaggerated gay characters for laughter and regularly fat-shames people – including children.
Most UK media did not reprint any of the satirical magazine's caricatures of Muhammad or the cartoons from Denmark's Jyllands-Posten, with which Charlie Hebdo first provoked international outrage in 2006.
It turns country people into caricatures, when they're easily as disparate as city dwellers.
I've never really been a fan of Charlie Hebdo – its humour was often too bawdy for my taste and I agree with one of their former employees, Olivier Cyran, that in recent years it has often drifted into racist caricatures, reinforcing an already toxic environment for French Muslims.
The 48-year-old, known for his caricatures of Nicolas Sarkozy, has taken on the role of editor of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo after surviving the gun attack on its editorial meeting on 7 January that killed 12 and sparked three days of terror that left five more dead in a kosher supermarket siege.
