History Main / Satire

* ''ComicBook/NotBrandEchh'' had satires of many Creator/{{Marvel|Comics}} {{comic book}} {{heroes}} as well as a few other companies' characters.

* ''Film/AClockworkOrange'' is a satire of the battle against violence in society

* ''WebVideo/SwordArtOnlineAbridged'', in addition to parodying the source material, also satirizes the video game industry and its questionable practices. For example, the titular game 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 companies responsible in-universe for making the terrible, buggy games.

* Creator/JonathanSwift in general, really.
** ''Literature/AModestProposal''. One of the most Juvenalian works ever produced.
** ''Literature/GulliversTravels''. No, not the film with Creator/JackBlack. Nor the book of the film. That would be SelfParody.

* ''Radio/AbsolutePower'', a [[Creator/TheBBC BBC]] radio series was a satire on spin-doctoring in modern politics, and media manipulation. The SoundToScreenAdaptation shifted its focus: still satirizing media manipulation, but more in the context of the nature of celebrity.

* The extremely short ''Literature/YoungAdult'' one-shot manages to satirize recurring tropes in young adult book series, mainly in the popular ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'', ''Literature/HarryPotter'' and ''Literature/{{Divergent}}'' series.

* ''LightNovel/KinosJourney'' basically does this OnceAnEpisode as Kino travels from one city to another. Notably one episode has a democracy where only a single citizen is still alive, all the others having died because of their absolute belief in majority rules.

* ''ARG/OmegaMart'': Creator/MeowWolf's primary intention with this {{Alternate Reality|Gmae}} supermarket is to provide a {{Surreal|ism}}ist {{Satire}} of the American grocery store, with surreal parodies of common grocery store items designed to make people who go through it think about the relationship they have with the products they purchase.

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* Meow Wolf's primary intention with ''Art/OmegaMart'' is to provide a {{Surreal|ism}}ist {{Satire}} of the American grocery store, with surreal parodies of common grocery store items designed to make people who go through it think about the relationship they have with the products they purchase.

** ''WesternAnimation/ACharlieBrownChristmas'' makes fun of the commercialization of Christmas, and famously caused the decline of [[Main/AluminumChristmasTrees Aluminum Christmas Trees]].

* ''Webcomic/ImMyOwnMascot'' often contains horatian satire of {{nerd}} culture and {{fandom}}s in general.

* ''WebVideo/SwordArtOnlineAbridged'', in addition to parodying the source material, also satirizes the video game industry and its questionable practices. For example, the titular game 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 made into targets of ridicule by being the companies responsible in-universe for making the terrible, buggy games.

* ''Creator/DaveBarry'': Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist for ''The Miami Herald.'' He makes fun of everything from [[Main/OnlyInFlorida Florida]] to [[https://www.miamiherald.com/living/liv-columns-blogs/dave-barry/article1928847.html his colonscopy]] to [[https://www.jokeindex.com/joke.asp?Joke=1076 specialty coffees]], usually with an absurdist, exaggerated brand of humor.

* [[Literature/BookOfJonah The Book of Jonah]]: Possibly the [[Main/UrExample Ur-example]]. The book is a Main/TakeThat toward people who desire God's mercy for themselves, but not for other people, represented by the title character.

* ''The New Yorker'' is known for it's satire, particularly ''The Borowitz Report'' by Andy Borowitz.
* P. J. O'Rourke is another satirical columnist who wrote articles for ''The Weekly Standard'' and ''The Daily Beast''. Known for his conservative-libertarian bent.
* ''Creator/DaveBarry'': Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist for ''The Miami Herald.''

* On his radio show, Creator/HowardStern will satirize any number or things he doesn't care for, most notably the hypocrisies of {{Media WatchDog}}s.

* ''Website/ClickHole'': A spinoff of ''The Onion'', poking fun at clickbait sites like ''Buzzfeed''.
* ''Website/BabylonBee'': A conservative Christian version of the Onion.
* ''Reductress'': Another fake news website poking fun at women's magazines.

* ''Podcast/KakosIndustries'' satirizes the concept of Evil itself, it being seen as something that is never solidly defined but is treated as though it can be bought, sold, measured, and enhanced among the EvilInc the show takes place in. Bare in mind that the podcast functions as a news style WorkCom while having this as the central plot.

* Webvideo/TheCinemaSnob started out as one of film critics that use bias and stupid arguments against exploitation\genre films (inspired by Creator/RogerEbert's review of ''Film/FridayThe13thPartVANewBeginning''). Eventually it also became one of TheMovieBuff who is equally pretentious.

* LetsPlay/{{Videogamedunkey}} occasionally delves into this. a couple notable examples are [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK158ih4smY "Anthem Legends: Exodus,"]] which parodies cliched copycat video games, as well as his video on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5ysxb_nL7w "Twitter"]].

* ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' done an excellent job with 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/Animaniacs}}'' uses this kind of humor four years later.

* ''ComicStrip/AndyCapp'''s titular protagonist is a satirical take of people in [[Main/OopNorth northern England]]. [[Main/MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales Surprisingly popular]] in that region, all things considered.

* ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}''

* ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty''

* ''Magazine/{{MAD}}''

* ''ComicStrip/LilAbner''

* Even Music/JohannSebastianBach took a crack at satire, with his "[[Music/SchweigtStillePlaudertNicht Coffee Cantata]]" satirizing the then-emerging opinion that [[MustHaveCaffeine drinking coffee]] was a bad habit. Apparently, MoralGuardians were just as annoying in Bach's time as they are today.

* ''Magazine/{{Punch}}'', a British magazine launched in 1841, was a groundbreaking satirical periodical, including satire of then contemporary society and politics. (It closed, a shadow of its former self, in 2002, having been fighting a losing battle against ''Private Eye'' -- for which see below -- for at least 30 years).

--> Do you weep, Mrs Thatcher, do you weep?
--> Do you wake, Mrs Thatcher, in your sleep?
--> Do you weep like a sad willow? On your Marks and Spencer's pillow?
--> Are your tears molten steel? Do you weep?
--> Do you wake with "three million" on your brain?
--> Are you sorry that they'll never work again?
--> When you're dressing in your blue, do you see the waiting queue?
--> Do you weep, Mrs Thatcher, do you weep?

* ''Fanfic/Edgar'' satirizes Disney's trend of creating live-action sympathetic origin story movies for their classic villains by making one of these for Edgar of ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats''.