Sentence examples for clever satire from inspiring English sources

This already looks like a fabulous vehicle for an extremely clever satire on human behaviour.

Though most considered this card clever satire, others thought it crossed the line into vulgarity.

Such a clever satire on the miseries of the unhappy Conservatives in postwar Socialist Britain.

– Quentin Hardy Dear Miss Disruption Medium |  In a clever satire, a Silicon Valley advice columnist offers the answer to every problem — learn to code.

Brooker has conjured up a very clever satire, mocking the people who take part in these shows and the sort of people who watch them.

The result is "a very supple and clever satire" that is "full of small, cumulative pleasures," Geoff Nicholson said here in 2001.

Asylum follows in the same rich vein of clever political satire as The Thick of It and Veep (which the creatives are all fans of), and our conversations take place in the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo murders.

Set in the theater world, Bram's clever, sexy satire presents an ensemble cast of characters -- actors, writers, a personal assistant, a drama critic -- falling in love with their work or one another.

Nor is it clever as satire; even know-nothing viewers were raised on "The Simpsons," "South Park" and "That 70's Show" and are accustomed to a bit more bite in their comedy.

The clever racial satire and celebrity deflations are replaced with Homer-esque gags about how dumb Ali is ("when U hear de word career, U probly fink of dat country in China where de Vietnams war append").

In Jaco Van Dormael's clever, redemptive satire "The Brand New Testament" God wears a bathrobe, drinks beer, pecks at a computer and takes devilish delight in irritating his creations.