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Political satire has played a role in American Politics since the 1700s. Under King George's rule, the colonies used political cartoons to criticize the parliament and fight for independence. [25] Founding father Benjamin Franklin was a notable political satirist.
The pictorial satire has been credited as the precursor to the political cartoons in England: John J. Richetti, in The Cambridge history of English literature, 1660–1780, states that "English graphic satire really begins with Hogarth's Emblematical Print on the South Sea Scheme".
A thesis was published by Rémi Pézerat entitled "La signification politique des dessins de Plantu (1972-2000)"(The Political Significance of the Cartoons of Plantu (1972-2000)). Plantu celebrated the publishing of his 15,000th cartoon and his thirtieth anniversary with Le Monde , and launched his own website .
This is a list of satirical television news programs with a satirical bent, or parodies of news broadcasts, with either real or fake stories for mainly humorous purposes. . The list does not include sitcoms or other programs set in a news-broadcast work environment, such as the US Mary Tyler Moore, the UK's Drop The Dead Donkey, the Australian Frontline, or the Canadian The Newsr
Chumbawamba have consistently used satire to make political points throughout their musical career. Pink Floyd 's albums Animals and The Dark Side of the Moon are conceptual and satirical albums. The Lonely Island is a satirical music group known for their work on Saturday Night Live .
Place of birth: Hong Kong Ancestral hometown: Dongguan city, Guangdong province Wong Kei-kwan (Chinese: 黃紀鈞, born 1955), [1] better known by his pen name Zunzi (Chinese: 尊子), is a Hong Kong political cartoonist known for his satire and pro-democracy stance and had been described as "the territory's most prominent political cartoonist".
Political satire, it wasn’t. The headlines from CNN, The Hollywood Reporter and many other media outlets — “‘SNL’ Takes Aim at Pro-Palestine Campus Protesters in Cold Open” reported ...
The Plumb-pudding in danger, or, State Epicures taking un Petit Souper is an 1805 editorial cartoon by the English artist James Gillray. The popular print depicts caricatures of the British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger and the newly-crowned Emperor of France Napoleon , both wearing military uniforms, carving up a terrestrial globe ...