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Wherever wit is employed to expose something foolish or vicious to criticism, there satire exists, whether it be in song or sermon, in painting or political debate, on television or in the movies.
If satire exists to provoke moral reform in HL Mencken's formulation, 'To comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable' then the muddying of the distinction between 'real' and 'fake' can only be conceived of as a perversion of satiric justice.
"I think part of the reason satire exists is to create a conversation," he theorizes, referring to his now hugely popular parodic collaboration with Feed Me, suitably called "I Do Coke With Feed Me".
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I'm a comedy writer, and up until recently I was labouring under the illusion that satire existed to hold those in power to account – to undermine their pomposity; to highlight and mock their faults to such a degree that the public at large couldn't fail to see them – and that this would somehow feed back into our democracy: the loss of an election, or a vote of no confidence.
No matter how astute and topical and considered a satire might be, it exists essentially to make you laugh.
So is satire also the reason Muhammad Sex Simulator 2015 exists?
In a country in which a whole sitcom is devoted to the perils of one George W. Bush, satire now seems to exist in simultaneous translation, instantly turning headlines into Internet-disseminated jokes, "Saturday Night Live" sketches and late-night television monologues.
Whisk is already a real NYC taxi hailing app that actually exists, proving once again that the startup scene is impervious to satire because its ridiculousness knows no bounds.
It exists alongside the works of George Saunders in that nebulous overlap zone of satire, near-future SF, and postmodernism.
Beneath the surface complexity of the poems, however, there exists, as one modern scholar has pointed out, a structural principle common to the satires of the Roman poets and their French and English followers.
But nothing in its satire of police-procedure-as-usual matches Eastwood's rage at the system, his view of a judicial order that exists to defend violent criminals from the law rather than to bring them to justice.
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