Examples of satire

• As the old justification runs, satire offends less when directed at a type instead of an individual.

• He argues that burlesques are at their most telling when aiming their satire at the very 'summit' of their culture.

• Would we not expect to find at least some bawdy allusions in male jokes and social satires?

• This develops as negotiations between historical sentimentality and radical memorialization, and between pantomimic burlesque and morally driven satire.

• This type of humour, satire, can be difficult to translate outside its immediate context.

• Nor were the explorers alone the objects of the skit's satire.

• It was also carried out through such media as satire and theatrical performance, in both of which endeavors we can find pandits once again active.

• These changes have the same effect - downplaying satire and emphasising the romantic quest - and perhaps even the same cause.