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  2. Satirical music - Wikipedia

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    Satirical music describes music that employs satire or was described as such. It deals with themes of social, political , religious , cultural structures and provides commentary or criticism on them typically under the guise of dark humor or respective music genres.

  3. Don't Download This Song - Wikipedia

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    "Don't Download This Song" is the first single from "Weird Al" Yankovic's 12th studio album Straight Outta Lynwood. The song was released exclusively on August 21, 2006 as a digital download. The song was released exclusively on August 21, 2006 as a digital download.

  4. Sarcasm - Wikipedia

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    The problems with these definitions and the reason why this dissertation does not thoroughly investigate the distinction between irony and sarcasm involves the ideas that: (1) people can pretend to be insulted when they are not or pretend not to be insulted when they are seriously offended; (2) an individual may feel ridiculed directly after ...

  5. British humour - Wikipedia

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    Black humour, in which topics and events that are usually treated seriously are treated in a humorous or satirical manner, typified by: Nighty Night, a TV series about a sociopathic beauty therapist who fakes her husband's death in order to steal her disabled neighbour's husband; Jam, an unsettling TV sketch comedy with an ambient music soundtrack

  6. Canadian humour - Wikipedia

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    Canadian heavy metal frontman Devin Townsend is known for using humour in his music. Projects such as Punky Bruster and Ziltoid the Omniscient are heavily comedy driven, and Devin's heavy metal band, Strapping Young Lad, use satire and sarcastic tongue in cheek lyrics as well.

  7. Satire - Wikipedia

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    Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of exposing or shaming the perceived flaws of individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement. [1]

  8. Humour - Wikipedia

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    Humour (Commonwealth English) or humor (American English) is the tendency of experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement.The term derives from the humoral medicine of the ancient Greeks, which taught that the balance of fluids in the human body, known as humours (Latin: humor, "body fluid"), controlled human health and emotion.

  9. List of satirists and satires - Wikipedia

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    The Lonely Island is a satirical music group known for their work on Saturday Night Live. Trey Parker , Robert Lopez and Matt Stone 's Tony-sweeping Broadway show The Book of Mormon (musical) satirizes the applicability of first-world religion to third-world problems.