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  • Vladimir Sorokin's novel Day of the Oprichnik has been parodied as Day of the Honours Student by a Putin Satirist popularly known as Mr. Parker.

    Catch-all 2010

  • Vladimir Sorokin's novel Day of the Oprichnik has been parodied as Day of the Honours Student by a Putin Satirist popularly known as Mr. Parker.

    A Different Stripe: 2008

  • Vladimir Sorokin's novel Day of the Oprichnik has been parodied as Day of the Honours Student by a Putin Satirist popularly known as Mr. Parker.

    Catch all for 1.29.08 2008

  • The Satirist is a moral agent, often a social scavenger, working on a storage of bile.

    Complete Short Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • The Satirist is a moral agent, often a social scavenger, working on a storage of bile.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • Ask any "Satirist", or stand-up or comedy writer to finish this sentence for you;

    Lizz Winstead: WTFJ Coulter? 2008

  • How long do you get to call yourself a "Satirist" if every time you are "satirizing" something, you have to explain it's a joke?

    Lizz Winstead: WTFJ Coulter? 2008

  • At a time when the "Satirist" was flinging its darts at the peculiarly vulnerable Duke of Brunswick, goading him into the writing of his pamphlets, and into that crushing retaliation whereby the paper was condemned in five thousand pounds damages, _Punch_ was perhaps the most moderate public censor and _arbiter elegantiarum_ amongst all those who used ridicule and irony as instruments of castigation; and indulgence has been the reward that he has reaped.

    The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann

  • This scandalous print, which has revived the old 'Satirist' in its most infamous phase, habitually inserts any tissue of falsehoods suggested to proceed from a 'native,' an 'African,' a 'negro,' and carefully writes down to the lowest level of its readers.

    To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Richard Francis Burton 1855

  • So a recent Mens News Daily piece entitled Satirist, Cartoonist Jules Feiffer Focuses on Children regarding Feiffer's recent School of Visual Arts’ Master Communicator Award makes a nice correlation between the man's past and current state of writing.

    Feiffer's Change of Venue fusenumber8 2007

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