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Do you like satire? I think it's the best form of torrment!:D Only then can you tease people well making them laugh. My personal fovorite is This Hour has 22 minutes, but that's Canadian, so I don't exspect you to know it

…This Hour has 22 Minutes…

Seconded. Gavin Crawford is very possibly the LG of Canadian television.

The Bugle podcast by John Oliver (The Daily Show) and Andy Zaltzman is a quite magnificent piece of political satire.

I'm going to avoid really one-sided satire like This Hour has 22 Minutes or the Colbert Report (though I love the Colbert Report) and aim for something that satirises all sides of the debate.

Team America: World Police

Now that's satire.

I get most of my satire in cartoon form. But that's fine by me. Love the cartoons. :)

Also, Canada seems to me to have peaked with Dan Ackroyd. The flow of good comics coming south seems to have dried up. :(

Personally, I've always liked whatever one lets me eat babies.

The Bible. The way it satirizes just about every aspect of the Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is simply brilliant.

Having thoroughly picked apart "A Modest Proposal (http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1080)" by Swift for a term paper, I feel compelled to at least make sure it gets mentioned in this thread - and I urge anyone who hasn't read it yet and still likes to call themselves a lover of satire to read it - NOW, it's not that long.

Monty Python's Flying Circus, old school Saturday night Live, The Hitchhiker's series by Douglas Adams, Bob Roberts, Wag the Dog, Dr. Strangelove, Airplane!, Top Secret!, South Park, Primary Colors.

Mmm, that's good satire!

Having thoroughly picked apart "A Modest Proposal (http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1080)" by Swift for a term paper, I feel compelled to at least make sure it gets mentioned in this thread - and I urge anyone who hasn't read it yet and still likes to call themselves a lover of satire to read it - NOW, it's not that long.

I think we should all eat the poor.

Now...what's this thread about?

Does Candide count?

Having thoroughly picked apart "A Modest Proposal (http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1080)" by Swift for a term paper, I feel compelled to at least make sure it gets mentioned in this thread - and I urge anyone who hasn't read it yet and still likes to call themselves a lover of satire to read it - NOW, it's not that long.

I think part of what makes something good satire is that people see that it's a joke and don't actually take your "advice."

Dr. Strangelove and Trailer park boys

Monty Python. Definitely Monty Python.

Satirewire.com is second -- too bad it's no longer updated. :(

The Onion, definitely. Though the Colbert Report and Airplane! deserve honorable mentions.

The Onion, definitely. Though the Colbert Report and Airplane! deserve honorable mentions.

Airplane! single-handedly destroyed an entire genre of movies. That's good satire.

Airplane! single-handedly destroyed an entire genre of movies. That's good satire.

Indeed. Did you ever see Zero Hour, the movie Airplane! took most of its material from?

The thing was truly horrendous.

I think we should all eat the poor.

Now...what's this thread about?

Excellent suggestion! I've actually toyed with the idea of crating such a thread back in the days when..

I think part of what makes something good satire is that people see that it's a joke and don't actually take your "advice."

Yeah, that's "good" satire. "Brilliant" satire, however, is when quite a lot of people, possible the ones who don't use their full cognitive potential on a regular basis, mistake it for "the real thing" and get horribly upset/start defending your idea/.. The best "Onion" articles are still the ones where many people, if you don't show them the source/they don't know The Onion, believe it to be a bona fide article..

Satire is all a bit juvenal.

Monty Python's various films and Airplane!.

Satire is all a bit juvenal.

Groooan...

Groooan...

Whereas puns....

Trigger happy TV, or some Blackadder scenes, monty python, red dwarf are all very good at satire and very funny.