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Comedic short film series Mr. Deity, which stars God, his assistant, Jesus, Lucifer, and several other characters from the Bible (since 2006) The LOLCat Bible Translation Project, a wiki-based project by Martin Grondin (since 2007) Net Authority, a site that purported to be a Christian Internet censorship site (2001–2008).
Spitting Image (UK TV show famous for its puppets of celebrities) Yes Minister (also "Yes, Prime Minister" – UK TV show satirising government) Kukly (Dolls, 1994–2002) – Russian satirical puppet show; Fitil (Fuse) – Soviet television satirical/comedy short film series; Nip/Tuck (Ryan Murphy) Have I Got News For You – Long running UK ...
Lucian of Samosata [a] (Λουκιανὸς ὁ Σαμοσατεύς, c. 125 – after 180) was a Hellenized Syrian satirist, rhetorician and pamphleteer who is best known for his characteristic tongue-in-cheek style, with which he frequently ridiculed superstition, religious practices, and belief in the paranormal.
The Bible is a collection of canonical sacred texts of Judaism and Christianity.Different religious groups include different books within their canons, in different orders, and sometimes divide or combine books, or incorporate additional material into canonical books.
Decimus Junius Juvenalis (Latin: [ˈdɛkɪmʊs ˈjuːniʊs jʊwɛˈnaːlɪs]), known in English as Juvenal (/ ˈ dʒ uː v ən əl / JOO-vən-əl; c. 55–128), was a Roman poet.He is the author of the Satires, a collection of satirical poems.
During his residence at Cambridge, Hall wrote his Virgidemiarum (1597), [b] satires in English written after Latin models. The claim he put forward in the prologue to be the earliest English satirist: I first adventure, follow me who list And be the second English satirist. [3] offended John Marston, who attacked him in satires published in ...
The Bible and humor is a topic of Biblical criticism concerned with the question of whether parts of the Bible were intended to convey humor in any style. Historically, this topic has not received much attention, but modern scholars generally agree that humor can be found in biblical texts.
The form is named after the third-century-BC Greek cynic parodist and polemicist Menippus. [7] His works, now lost, influenced the works of Lucian (2nd century AD) and Marcus Terentius Varro (116–27 BC), the latter being the first to identify the genre by referring to his own satires as saturae menippeae; such satires are sometimes also termed Varronian satire.