History Main / Satire

* The more recent seasons of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' usually use satire as their primary source of humor.

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* ''Webcomic/PortSherry'' [[http://portsherry.com/ (Here)]] delivers horatian satire on a lot of things.
* ''Webcomic/ImMyOwnMascot'' often contains horatian satire of nerd culture and {{fandom}}s in general.

[[folder:Web Original]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' satirizes adventure shows like ''Jonny Quest'' by showcasing just how psychologically scarring being a boy adventurer can become.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' is one huge satire of late 20th and early 21st century Western society.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{MAD}}'' is a spiritual and satirical successor to ''Series/MadTV'', in the form of an animated sketch series; it even had the nerve to ridicule James Cameron's ''Film/{{Avatar}}'' in the very first episode.
* ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' did an excellent job poking fun at human life; even the aspects of daily life in the far-future have devolved into a tortured mockery of itself in a most Juvenalian manner.
* ''WesternAnimation/YinYangYo'' often satirizes feminism by bringing up the hypocrisy done or said by radical feminist Saranoia, and to a lesser extent Yin. The episode "A Walk in the Woods" satirizes childhood obesity where Yin and Yang stayed indoors surfing the Internet all day and eating junk food.
* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' mocks and laughs at American Retro Pop culture alongside old fashioned media censorship policies as well.
* ''{{WesternAnimation/Animaniacs}}'': The show loves to take aim at and spoof many of the most popular topics of the day, including poiltics, history, and Warner Bros itself.
* ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain''
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}''
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}''
* ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' has the one-hour special ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLifeStaticCling'' which satirizes, what else, modern life: the [[IPhony O-Phone]] upgrades constantly and people charge into the store for a new one and Rocko's old job is gone, replaced with a 3D printer that makes the comic book for you.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}}''
* ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'': This element wasn't as prevalent after Creator/JohnKricfalusi left the show, though certain episodes, such as "Stimpy's Cartoon Show" and "Reverend Jack", satirized what working under John K.'s tenure was like.
* ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead''
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' often does this; for example, "[[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS4E12TheUpgrade The Upgrade]]" takes a huge swipe at the concept of Planned Obsolescence.

* The films of Creator/JacquesTati are a satire on the contrast between the traditional society and the technological innovations of the modern world.
* ''Film/ASerbianFilm'' is a satire ([[LyingCreator supposedly]]) of modern Serbian cinema and the history of the nation as a whole. So Juvenalian, [[PoesLaw some couldn't even tell it was a satire]].

* ''Film/WeirdTheAlYankovicStory'' is a comedic take on the SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll musician {{Biopic}} film, applying the tropes to an exaggerated version of the life story of Music/WeirdAlYankovic.

* ''Film/{{Idiocracy}}'': A satirical dystopian SciFi critique on human evolution in modern society, mass pop culture, mainstream media and commercialism. It also both references and lampoons classic dystopian sci-fi films like ''Film/TheRunningMan'', ''Film/TotalRecall1990'', ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'', ''Film/LogansRun'', plus the novels ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'' and ''Literature/BraveNewWorld''.
* ''Film/{{Bamboozled}}'' shows how far African-American portrayals on television can really go, and how television network executives will do anything to keep their ratings up, at the cost of racially exploiting and ruining the lives of others.
* ''Film/ThisIsSpinalTap'' is a satire of rock bands.
* ''Film/{{Placido}}'' ruthlessly mocks the hypocritical upper-class people of a town in 1961 Spain, who take in homeless people for dinner on Christmas Eve not because they want to, but because they want to look charitable in front of their neighbors.
* ''[[Creator/RobertTownsend Hollywood Shuffle]]'' is a satire of Hollywood's attitudes about black actors in the 1980's.
* ''Film/WeirdTheAlYankovicStory'' does this to musician {{biopic}}s. WordOfGod from Al himself is that specific inspirations were ''Film/BohemianRhapsody'' and ''Film/Rocketman2019''.
* ''Film/StarshipTroopers'', [[BrokenBase controversially]], satirized the UsefulNotes/ColdWar-era anticommunist hyper-militarism of [[Literature/StarshipTroopers the original novel]] and gung-ho war fiction more generally, the genesis of which was director Creator/PaulVerhoeven being unable to finish reading it when he got the job because [[TraumaButton it reminded him too strongly of his childhood in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands]]. The very Juvenalian film is formatted as a gung-ho PropagandaPiece to aid Terran Federation recruitment, even though the war is probably unnecessary, nearly everyone involved in it is incompetent, and ''they're losing''.
-->''"[[RunningGag Would you like to know more?]]"''

* WebVideo/{{Jreg}}: ''Centricide'' makes fun of political extremists, by putting them on the same team to fight against the centrist threat.

The Roman poets Ennius and Lucilius are considered the progenitors of the genre, though almost all of their work has been lost. Latin satire was generally delivered in verse, like most literature of the time. It was considered the sole branch of literature native to Rome and there was no Greek equivalent, though some Greek comedy, such as Creator/{{Aristophanes}}, had elements that we would consider satiric. Creator/{{Horace}}, Persius, and Creator/{{Juvenal}} are perhaps the three most famous Roman satirists, ranging from good-natured (Horace disposing of a dreadful bore) to savage (Juvenal's condemnation of sodomites pretending to be philosophers). They are for the most part preoccupied with urban life, morality, and how other people suck.

Satire often relies on current events, which raises a danger that it won't be appreciated in another era. The poetry of Creator/AlexanderPope and John Dryden satirized English politics of the 18th century, but few would appreciate the humor now. The best satire can still be appreciated on its own merits even after the thing it's criticizing fades from consciousness. Occasionally, a piece of satire regains relevance in similar circumstances; for example, satire aimed at [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeHWBush George Bush I]] (or, perhaps more justifiably, UsefulNotes/RichardNixon) can often be easily applied to UsefulNotes/BillClinton; 1990s "look at the old guy!" barbs at UsefulNotes/BobDole were recycled in 2008 to target John [=McCain=].

Satire often relies on current events, which raises a danger that it won't be appreciated in another era. The poetry of Creator/AlexanderPope and John Dryden satirized English politics of the 18th century, but few would appreciate the humor now. The best satire can still be appreciated on its own merits even after the thing it's criticizing fades from consciousness. Occasionally, a piece of satire regains relevance in similar circumstances; for example, satire aimed at [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeHWBush George Bush I]] (or, perhaps more justifiably, UsefulNotes/RichardNixon) can often be easily applied to UsefulNotes/BillClinton; 1990s "look at the old guy!" barbs at Bob Dole were recycled in 2008 to target John [=McCain=].

Satire often relies on current events, which raises a danger that it won't be appreciated in another era. The poetry of Creator/AlexanderPope and Dryden satirized English politics of the 18th century, but few would appreciate the humor now. The best satire can still be appreciated on its own merits even after the thing it's criticizing fades from consciousness. Occasionally, a piece of satire regains relevance in similar circumstances; for example, satire aimed at [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeHWBush George Bush I]] (or, perhaps more justifiably, UsefulNotes/RichardNixon) can often be easily applied to UsefulNotes/BillClinton; 1990s "look at the old guy!" barbs at Bob Dole were recycled in 2008 to target John [=McCain=].

Satire often relies on current events, which raises a danger that it won't be appreciated in another era. The poetry of Pope and Dryden satirized English politics of the 18th century, but few would appreciate the humor now. The best satire can still be appreciated on its own merits even after the thing it's criticizing fades from consciousness. Occasionally, a piece of satire regains relevance in similar circumstances; for example, satire aimed at [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeHWBush George Bush I]] (or, perhaps more justifiably, UsefulNotes/RichardNixon) can often be easily applied to UsefulNotes/BillClinton; 1990s "look at the old guy!" barbs at Bob Dole were recycled in 2008 to target John [=McCain=].

* ''WebAnimation/DarkMatter2525'': Many if not most of the videos involve this, running with common apologetics claims to show what they entail in RealLife. For instance "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyAx5RUDIKk How To Be Like God]]", which displays how defenses like respect for free will, being simply "[[InMysteriousWays mysterious]]" etc. would seem if a person did them (i.e. a huge sadistic jerk who lets you die rather than give help he could easily provide).

* ''A Serbian Film'' is a satire ([[LyingCreator supposedly]]) of modern Serbian cinema and the history of the nation as a whole. So Juvenalian, [[PoesLaw some couldn't even tell it was a satire]].

* ''WebVideo/CityNerd'': While many videos on the channel use dry humor and sarcasm to address political choices that have resulted in poor and dangerous city planning the [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkqErPfC4Ajq1-2GL7caK27NhadpJBFDF Investigating Heinous Land Uses]] series is dripping with satire on the racism, corruption, cluelessness and greed behind many of the zoning laws that require poor and uses.

* ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' has the upcoming one-hour special ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLifeStaticCling'' satirizes, what else, modern life: the [[IPhony O-Phone]] upgrades constantly and people charge into the store for a new one and Rocko's old job is gone, replaced with a 3D printer that makes the comic book for you.

* ''Film/CannibalHolocaust'': It is the most sick, vile, twisted, bloody and most violent piece of satire ever made by a film director.
** Creator/EliRoth's ''Film/TheGreenInferno'' is more bloody, gorier and more barbarically gruesome, not to mention even more controversial.

* ''Literature/ForrestGump'' (the novel, but not the movie) was a fairly biting satire of Americana from the '50s to the '70s. The novel was more Juvenalian, the film being Horatian.

* ''VideoGame/BadDayLA'' makes fun of how dysfunctional modern society is.
* The ''Franchise/RatchetAndClank'' series, particularly its earlier installments, contained very tongue-in-cheek satire of consumerism.

* ''VideoGame/FarCry3'' is a satire of video game violence.
* [[https://opoulos.itch.io/simnimby Sim Nimby]] is a satire of anti-development activism, particularly where affordable housing is concerned.
* ''VideoGame/GoingUnder'': The game is a satire of corporate and start-up culture. In the setting, failed start-ups go under literally, being sunken under the earth, have their members turned into monsters, and become dungeons. A lot of the dungeons poke fun at the kind of projects they do (an app to facilitate the Gig Economy, a dating app, a new cryptocurrency, etc), but a lot of the story also point out the excess of start-ups, their poor management, hiding flaws behind corporate speak, the conflict between bosses and workers, and stealthily supports worker unionization.

** ''{{WesternAnimation/Animaniacs}}'' uses this kind of humor four years later.

* ''Series/TheDailyShow'' satirizes modern US and global news events, as does the SpinOff, ''Series/TheColbertReport''. Whether their satire is Juvenalian or Horatian depends on the subject: Creator/FoxNewsChannel? Juvenalian (particularly when it comes to Radio/GlennBeck or Sean Hannity). UsefulNotes/BarackObama? Horatian. UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush? Are we talking 2001-2006 or 2006-2009?[[note]]First period is mostly Juvenalian, thanks to the Iraq War, etc., while second period he was seen as more or less pathetic, and leaned more Horatian.[[/note]] The rest of the media? What are they saying now? Etc., etc., etc.

* ''WebVideo/SwordArtOnlineAbridged'', in addition to parodying the source material, also satirizes the video game industry and its questionable practices. For example, the very first joke in the series mocks game companies that aggressively force adverts in players' faces and use micro-transactions to extort money for features that should be in the game from the beginning (such as, in this case, removing the ads). The titular game itself is shown to be an ObviousBeta with many {{Game Breaking Bug}}s that occurred because it was ChristmasRushed, paralleling real games like ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'' that fell to the same fate. It also attacks "crunch time" and overworking developers by showing that this led to many of the bugs plaguing the game. In addition, real companies like Creator/{{Bethesda}} and Creator/{{Ubisoft}} are [[TakeThat made into targets of ridicule]] by being the publishers who are responsible in-universe for the games releasing in their terrible state, as well as fostering toxic work environments that overwork their best developers ([[spoiler:Akihiko Kayaba]]) and allow sexual predators to do as they please (Noboyuki Sugou).

* ''Literature/JKRowlingUsesMagicToTurnTransvestitesIntoSerialKillers'': A satire of social justice activism.