He quickly became distinctive for his trademark overcoat and Ulster brogue, which drew satire from Private Eye and the ITV show Spitting Image.
What the reviewers of Juvenalia discerned was true not just of our little show, but of the original from which it was drawn: the Satires stand in a tradition to which Mort Sahl, Lenny Bruce and Woody Allen, but equally Max Miller and Jackie Mason and Bernard Manning all belong, the comic improvisation on a theme.
He draws on satire, rhetoric, naturalism (the kind, Strindberg said, that "seeks out the points where great battles take place"), and poetry.
The band drew on satire and lampoon to ridicule their adversaries, in songs such as Kill for Peace, Supergirl and Slum Goddess, often using language that drew controversy and censorship.
It's actually Mr. Gershwins, plural: an evening of satire drawn from George and Ira Gershwin's songs about politics, directed and adapted by Laurence Maslon.
On the whole, Worden says, "royalists wrote better than parliamentarians: they were very good at satire": these authors were responsible for the unforgettable image of their Puritan opponents as having "round heads" and as being sour, grumpy and philistine - superb propaganda, and a form of satire later drawn on by Dryden and Swift.
He found himself intensely drawn to the classical satire that stemmed from Horace and Juvenal, and made a formal denunciation of current life and posited what ought to prevail - that sort of Utopian thing - as opposed to the Private Eye nonsense of mocking people and positing nothing.
British sitcom Absolutely Fabulous came at the topic with daggers drawn, and while its satire was often apt, no one mistook it for reality.
On his popular and influential Emmy-winning Comedy Central programme, Colbert's biting brand of satire has drawn critical acclaim as well as provoking ire, often from the Republicans and conservatives he skewers.
Satire draws attention to defects or stupidities by exaggerating them, transposing them into startling contexts or turning them upside down.
