Satirists

Alan Park (born in Scarborough, Ontario) is a Canadian comedian and political satirist best known for his appearances on the Royal Canadian Air Farce. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alan Park"

Alfred Jarry ( September 8, 1873 – November 1, 1907) was a French writer born in Laval, Mayenne, France, not far from the border of Brittany; he was of Breton descent on his mother's side. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alfred Jarry"

Anatole France ( April 16, 1844 – October 12, 1924) was the pen name of French author Jacques Anatole François Thibault. He was born in Paris, France, and died in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France. In addition to being a celebrated author, Anatole was also documented to have a brain volume just two-thirds the normal size. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anatole France"

Aristophanes (c. 448 BC- 380 BC; Greek ΄Αριστοφανης) was a Greek comic dramatist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Aristophanes"

Bryan John Dawe is an Australian comedian and satirist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bryan Dawe"

Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk (born February 21 1962) is an American satirical novelist and freelance journalist living in Portland, Oregon. He is best known for the award-winning novel Fight Club, which was later made into a film directed by David Fincher. He has one of the largest centralized followings of any author on the Internet, based around his official web site. His writings, similar in style to those of such peers as Bret Easton Ellis, Irvine Welsh, and Douglas Coupland, have made him one of the most popular novelists of Generation X. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chuck Palahniuk"

Craig Brown (born May 23 1957) is a British satirist and writer probably best-known for his work in Private Eye. In 2003, he was listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy. ...more on Wikipedia about "Craig Brown (satirist)"

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Dan O'Neill (born April 21, 1942) is a cartoonist, creator of the syndicated comic strip Odd Bodkins and founder of the underground comics collective the Air Pirates. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dan O'Neill"

Daniele Luttazzi (born in Santarcangelo di Romagna, Rimini, January 26 1961), real name Daniele Fabbri, is an Italian comedian, writer, satirist, illustrator and singer/songwriter. His stage name is a homage to musician and actor Lelio Luttazzi. ...more on Wikipedia about "Daniele Luttazzi"

Daniil Kharms ( ; 30 December, 1905 (17 December Old Style) - 2 February, 1942) was an early Soviet-era satirist who used a surrealist or absurdist style. ...more on Wikipedia about "Daniil Kharms"

Flann O'Brien was the best known pseudonym of Brian O'Nolan (in Irish Brian Ó Nuallain) ( October 5, 1911 Strabane, County Tyrone, Ireland - April 1, 1966 Dublin) who also published under the name Myles na gCopaleen. He was a twentieth century Irish satirist and humorist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Flann O'Brien"

Mary Flannery O'Connor ( March 25, 1925 – August 3, 1964) was an American author. She was born in Savannah, Georgia. ...more on Wikipedia about "Flannery O'Connor"

Fred Negro (his real name) is an Australian satirist, musician, songwriter, and cartoonist. Born in Richmond, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, he has fronted numerous rock or country bands, with local success, including: ...more on Wikipedia about "Fred Negro"

Garretson Beekman Trudeau (born July 21, 1948) is an American cartoonist. He attended St. Paul's School and then Yale University in the late 1960s, where he developed his most famous creation, the daily comic strip Doonesbury, and was a member of Scroll and Key. He also attended the Yale School of Art, earning his M.F.A. in graphic design in 1973. ...more on Wikipedia about "Garry Trudeau"

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg is a 18th-century German scientist, satirist and anglophile, most famous for his notebooks published posthumously (which he himself called "waste books", using the English bookkeeping term). ...more on Wikipedia about "Georg Christoph Lichtenberg"

Hagop Baronian (1891-1843) is an Armenian writer and is considered to be the most influential satirist in Armenian Literature. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hagop Baronian"

Igor Guberman - Игорь Миронович Губерман (b. 1936) - Russian writer, poet, who received wide reputation because of its aphoristic and satiric quatrains, "gariki" ( Gariki ). ...more on Wikipedia about "Igor Guberman"

Jaroslav Hašek ( April 30, 1883 – January 3, 1923) was a Czech humorist and satirist who became well-known mainly for his world-famous novel The Good Soldier Švejk, an unfinished collection of farcical incidents about a soldier in World War I which has been translated into sixty languages. He also wrote some 1,500 short stories. He was a journalist, bohemian, and practical joker. His short life had many odd parallels with another Prague contemporary, the Jewish writer Franz Kafka (1883–1924). ...more on Wikipedia about "Jaroslav Hašek"

John Morrison Clarke (born July 29, 1948) is a comedian and writer. He was born in Palmerston North, New Zealand, but has lived in Australia since the 1970s. He is a regular actor and writer on Australian TV. ...more on Wikipedia about "John Clarke (satirist)"

Joseph Heller ( May 1, 1923 – December 12, 1999) was an American satirist best remembered for writing the satiric World War II classic Catch-22. The literary devices established in this first novel continued in his other books. The book was partly based on Heller's own experiences and influenced among others Robert Altman's comedy M*A*S*H, and the subsequent long-running TV series, set in the Korean War. The phrase "catch-22" has entered the English language to signify a no-win situation, particularly one created by a law, regulation or circumstance. ...more on Wikipedia about "Joseph Heller"

Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, Anglicized as Juvenal, was a Roman satiric poet of the late 1st century and early 2nd century AD. He is known for coining the phrase " panem et circenses" ("bread and circuses") to describe the primary pursuits of the Roman populace. The rhetorical question "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?", "Who shall guard the guardians?" comes from his satire On Women, and arises in a discussion concerning the usefulness of having eunuchs guard your women. ...more on Wikipedia about "Juvenal"

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Karl Kraus ( April 28, 1874 - June 12, 1936) was an eminent Austrian writer and journalist, known as a satirist, essayist, aphorist, playwright, and poet. He is generally considered one of the foremost German-language satirists of the 20th century, especially known for his witty criticism of the press, German culture, and German politics. ...more on Wikipedia about "Karl Kraus"

Kioumars Saberi Foumani ( 1941- April 30, 2004), also known with his pen name Gol-Agha, was an Iranian satirist, writer, and teacher. He was one of the greatest writers of contemporary Iran too. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kioumars Saberi Foumani"

Lenny Bruce ( October 13, 1925 – August 3, 1966), born Leonard Alfred Schneider, was a controversial Jewish- American stand-up comedian and satirist of the 1950s and 1960s. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lenny Bruce"

List of satirists below - writers, cartoonists and others known for their involvement in satire - humourous social criticism. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of satirists"

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