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* ''Series/MadTV'': This took Mad Magazine, and put it on our television screens in the form of a sketch comedy show.

* ''MidnightMass2021'': The show ultimately tries to point out the folly of being religious. The first two episodes clearly establish that the writers respect those with religious beliefs by accurately portraying Catholicism, but after that the show gets more and more offensive to religious people. By the end of the the first season, it's clear this is a satire that favors atheism over religious beliefs.

* Music/TheRutles are a satire on Music/TheBeatles
* Music/FrankZappa
* Music/Chumbawamba
* Music/JacquesBrel
* Music/TheFugs
* Music/RandyNewman
* Music/TheDeadKennedys

* Pretty much anything by the Swedish Pop and Rock singer Magnus Uggla is dripping thick with contemporary satire.

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

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

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* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' and ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' were both originally satirical, but they're played so straight these days that many fans see them as SeriousBusiness.

* ''VideoGame/TheGame''
* The WebGame developer Creator/{{Molleindustria}} has specialized in making satirical games with relatively simple gameplay.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' satirizes adventure shows like ''Johnny Quest'' by showcasing just how psychologically scarring being a boy adventurer can become.

* ''Series/MadTV'': This took Mad Magazine, and put it our television screens in the form of a sketch comedy show.

* The movie ''Film/ThePlayer'' satirized UsefulNotes/{{Hollywood}}'s crushing effect on the visions of individual artists as well as the kind of people that environment attracts.

See also {{Parody}}, {{Pastiche}}, {{Farce}}, MetaTropeIntro. Compare {{Deconstruction}}, as a lot of satire incorporates elements of it, and TakeThat. See also TheComicallySerious, which is often a key component of satire.

* ''Film/{{UHF}}'': Music/WeirdAl's film mocks retro pop culture, TV shows and movies. Targets include ''Series/TheBeverlyHillbillies'', ''Film/{{Network}}'', ''Film/StarWars'', ''Film/BlazingSaddles'', ''Film/{{Conan the Barbarian|1982}}'', ''Franchise/{{Rambo}}'', ''Series/WheelOfFortune'', ''ThePinwheelChannel'', ''Series/TheATeam'', ''Film/TheShining'', ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind'', ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'', and ''Film/{{Gandhi}}''.

* ''ComicBook/InvaderZim''

* ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'' makes dark commentary on general shallowness, escapism, [[TakeThatAudience otaku]] and society in general.

* Superflat is a [[PostModernism Post-Modern]] art movement that was started by Takashi Murakami who was inspired by Creator/HideakiAnno. It sometimes satirizes many aspects of Japan (particularly things sparked by {{Anime}}) such as consumerism, the prevalence of {{UsefulNotes/Kawaisa}}, {{Lolicon|AndShotacon}}, and {{Fanservice}} along with the {{Otaku}} subculture that is the driving force behind all of them. However, since certain artists associated with Superflat are lolicon otaku themselves, it could also be seen as a form of self-parody. Furthermore, it should be noted that not all Superflat works are satirical in nature - Superflat Monogram, by Murakami and Creator/MamoruHosoda, for instance, is merely a Louis Vuitton commercial.

* ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}'': An excessively Juvenalian satire of American consumer culture, Politics, Journalism, Television, Religion, Cyberpunk writing, Utopian futurism and the future in general.
* ''ComicBook/NotBrandEchh'' had satires of many Creator/{{MarvelComics}} comic book heroes as well as a few other companies' characters.

* ''Fanfic/LilyAndTheArtOfBeingSisyphus'' is a hilarious and exceptionally well-made satirical mockery of popular conventions in ''Harry Potter'' Fanfiction, the ''Harry Potter'' fandom, and the universe of ''Harry Potter'' in general. Of special note is the relationship between the Mundane and Wizarding worlds -- which is sharply delineated in the source material and most fanfiction. In the protagonist's eyes ''there is no divide'', and a significant element of the humor stems from everyone around her being unable to parse this.

* The movie ''Film/ThePlayer'' satirized Hollywood's crushing effect on the visions of individual artists as well as the kind of people that environment attracts.

* ''Film/TheTrumanShow'' is a satire of reality TV and television in general, yet it inspired the television show ''Series/BigBrother''.

* ''Film/{{Idiocracy}}'': A satirical dystopian sci-fi 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''.

* ''Magazime/{{MAD}}''
* ''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).
* ''Punch'' was an express attempt at replicating a French satirical magazine of the day, ''Le Charivari'', a Paris magazine that lampooned July Monarchy-era French politics and mores--as evidenced by the British publication's full title, ''Punch, [[EitherOrTitle or the London Charivari]]''. The actual ''Charivari'' of Paris stopped doing satire shortly after ''Punch'' started, turning into a lifestyle magazine, after falling afoul of Louis-Philippe's censors.

* The articles in ''Magazine/PrivateEye'' are mostly Juvenalian satire...when they aren't hard-hitting straight-up exposés of real wrongdoing. Sometimes articles do dip into the Horatian (particularly the Prime Minister parodies, which are usually too ridiculous to be truly stinging). Incidentally, the founders of ''Private Eye'' in TheSixties specifically cited (again) ''Punch'' in its heyday as their inspiration--rather than as it existed in their time, which they found rather insipid (and which eventually was reduced to writing nasty articles at the ''Eye''[='s=] expense).

* ''WebSite/MinistryOfHarmony'' satirizes news stories from China in a Juvenalian style.

* ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' has the upcoming one-hour special ''Rocko's Modern Life: Static Cling'' 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.

* ''Series/HaveIGotNewsForYou''. Fittingly for the editor of Juvenalian satirical magazine ''PrivateEye'', Ian Hislop's contributions are toward the Juvenalian end of the scale, while Paul Merton tends more toward the Horatian end when he isn't making plays on words or indulging in surrealism and flights of fancy.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{MAD}}'' is a spiritual and satirical successor to 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.

See also {{Parody}}, {{Pastiche}}, {{Farce}}, MetaTropeIntro. Compare {{Deconstruction}}, as a lot of satire incorporates elements of it. See also TheComicallySerious, which is often a key component of satire.