List of satirists and satires  

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Below is an incomplete list of writers, cartoonists and others known for their involvement in satire – humorous social criticism. They are grouped by era and listed by year of birth. Also included is a list of modern satires.

Early satirical authors

Ancient satire

• Aesop (c. 620–560 BCE) – Fables
• Aristophanes (c. 448–380 BCE) The Frogs, The Birds, and The Clouds
• Gaius Lucilius (c. 180–103 BCE) – Books
• Horace (65–8 BCE) – Sermones
• Ovid (43 BCE – 17 CE) – The Art of Love
• Persius (34–62 CE) – Satires
• Petronius (c. 27–66 CE) – Satyricon
• Juvenal (1st to early 2nd centuries CE) – Satires
• Lucian (c. 120–180 CE)
• Apuleius (c. 123–180 CE) – The Golden Ass
• Various Authors (9th century CE and later) – One Thousand and One Nights

Medieval, Early Modern and 18th Century satirists

• Godfrey of Winchester (d. 1107)
• Obeid e zakani (?–1370) – Akhlaq al-Ashraf (Ethics of the Aristocracy)
• Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375) – The Decameron
• Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343–1400) – The Canterbury Tales
• Gil Vicente (c. 1465–1536)
• Desiderius Erasmus (1466–1536) – The Praise of Folly
• François Rabelais (c. 1493–1553) – Gargantua, Pantagruel
• Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) – Don Quixote
• Luis de Góngora (1561–1627)
• Francisco de Quevedo (1580–1645)
• Juan de Tassis y Peralta, 2nd Count of Villamediana (1582–1622)
• Martin Marprelate (true identity unknown) – Marprelate Tracts
• Samuel Butler (1612–1680) – Hudibras
• Molière (1622–1673)
• John Stockton (1631–1700)
• John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647–1680)
• Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) – Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Tale of a Tub
• John Gay (1685–1732) – The Beggar's Opera
• Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
• Voltaire (1694–1778) – Candide
• James Bramston (1694–1744)
• William Hogarth (1697–1764) – Beer Street and Gin Lane
• Henry Fielding (1707–1754)
• Laurence Sterne (1713–1768) – The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
• James Beresford (1764–1840) – The Miseries of Human Life
• Ivan Krylov (1769–1844)

Modern satirists (born 1800–1900)

• Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852) – The Government Inspector, Dead Souls
• Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) – The Man That Was Used Up, A Predicament
• William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–63) – Vanity Fair
• Charles Dickens (1812–1870) – Hard Times, A Tale of Two Cities
• James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) – A Fable for Critics
• George Derby AKA John P. Squibob, John Phoenix (1823–1861)
• Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826–1889)
• Lewis Carroll (1832–1898)
• Samuel "Erewhon" Butler (1835–1902)
• Mark Twain (1835–1910) – Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
• W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911)
• Thomas Nast (1840–1902)
• Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914?) – The Devil's Dictionary
• Anatole France (1844–1924)
• José Maria de Eça de Queiroz (1845–1900)
• Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
• Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859–1927)
• Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) – The Lady with the Dog
• O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) (1862–1910)
• Jalil Mammadguluzadeh (1866–1931)
• Lakhminath Bezbaruah (1868–1938) (India) ( wrote in Assamese Language ) Kripabor Barbaruar Kaakotor Topola, Kripabor Barbaruar Obhotani, Barbaruar Bhabar Burburani, Barbaruar Bulani
• H.H. Munro aka Saki (1870–1916)
• Alfred Jarry (1873–1907)
• Radoje Domanović (1873–1908)
• Iraj Mirza (1874–1926)
• Karl Kraus (1874–1936)
• Will Rogers (1879–1935)
• James Branch Cabell (1879–1958)
• Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda (1879–1959)
• H. L. Mencken (1880–1956)
• Arkady Averchenko (1881–1925)
• P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975)
• Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957)
• Jaroslav Hašek (1883–1923)
• Oscar Cesare (1885–1948)
• Kurt Tucholsky (1890–1935)
• Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940) – Heart of a Dog, The Master and Margarita
• Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)
• Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930)
• Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) – Point Counter Point, Brave New World
• Mikhail Zoshchenko (1895–1958)
• Josep Pla (1897–1981)
• Ilf and Petrov: Ilya Ilf (1897–1937) and Yevgeni Petrov (1903–1942) – The Twelve Chairs, The Little Golden Calf
• Yury Olesha (1899–1960) – Three Fat Men

Modern satirists (born 1900–1930)

• Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966)
• George Orwell (1903–1950) – Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four
• Dr. Seuss or Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904–1991) – The Lorax (1971), The Butter Battle Book (1984)
• Malcolm Muggeridge (1903–1990) (UK)
• Kurt Kusenberg (1904–1983) (Germany)
• Daniil Kharms (1905–1942) (Russia/USSR)
• Al Capp (1909–1979) (US)
• Walt Kelly (1913–1973) (US)
• Anthony Burgess (1917–1993) (UK) – A Clockwork Orange
• Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007) – Slaughterhouse-Five, Breakfast of Champions, "Cat's Cradle"
• Lenny Bruce (1925–1966) – Stand-up comedian
• Joseph Heller (1923–1999) – Catch-22
• Terry Southern (1924–1995) – The Magic Christian, Dr. Strangelove
• Günter Grass (born 1927) – The Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse
• Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999) – Dr. Strangelove
• Harvey Kurtzman (1924–1993)
• Tom Lehrer (born 1928) (US) That Was the Year That Was, musician
• Jules Feiffer (US) (1929)
• Ray Bradbury (US)
• William S. Burroughs (US)
• Dario Fo (Italy)
• Flannery O'Connor (US)
• C. Northcote Parkinson (UK)
• Anna Russell (UK)
• Gore Vidal (US)
• Mel Brooks (US)
• Allan Sherman (1924–1973) (US) musician, parodist, television producer, voice actor
• Stan Freberg (1926) (US) musician, parodist, voice actor
• Brian O'Nolan (1911–1966) – best known for At Swim-Two-Birds (Pen Name: Flann O'Brien)

Modern satirists (born 1930–1960)

• Roger Abbott (Canada)
• Mordecai Richler (1931–2001) (Canada)
• Tom Wolfe (1931) – The Bonfire of the Vanities
• Robert Anton Wilson (1932–2007) Illuminatus!
• Barry Humphries (1934) "My Gorgeous Life", "The Life and Death of Sandy Stone", stage shows
• Alan Bennett (1934) (UK)
• Cathy Jones (1955) (Canada)
• Mary Walsh (1952) (Canada)
• Dudley Moore (1935–2002) (UK)
• Woody Allen (1935) (US)
• George Carlin (1937–2008) (stand-up comedian)
• Peter Cook (1937–1995) – British Satire boom, Beyond the Fringe
• Eleanor Bron (1938) (UK)
• David Frost (1939) (UK)
• Frank Zappa (1940–1993) – We're Only In It For The Money
• Kioumars Saberi Foumani (1941–2004)
• Lewis Black (1948) – Stand up Comic, "Daily Show"
• Jonathan Meades (1947) (UK) – writer, broadcaster, satirist
• Terry Pratchett (1948) – The Discworld book series
• Mikhail Zadornov (1948) (Russia)
• Garry Trudeau (1948) (US)
• Jaafar Abbas (Sudan/Middle East)
• George Saunders
• James Gaitis (1954) (US) The Nation's Highest Honor (An Arizona novelist's environmental and political satire)
• Christopher Guest (1948) (US) – "This Is Spinal Tap", "Waiting for Guffman"
• Gary Larson (1950) (US) – cartoonist
• Steve Bell (born 1951)
• Al Franken (1951) (US)
• Douglas Adams (1952-died 2001) (UK) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, Starship Titanic, The Meaning of Liff & The Deeper Meaning of Liff
• Don Ferguson (Canada)
• Christopher Buckley (born 1952) – Thank You for Smoking, The White House Mess
• Carl Hiaasen (1953) – Tourist Season, Double Whammy, Basket Case, Skinny Dip
• Louis de Bernières (1954) (UK) – Latin America Trilogy: The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts, Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord, The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman
• Matt Groening (1954) (US) The Simpsons, Futurama
• George C. Wolfe (1954) – "The Colored Museum"
• Howard Stern (1954) (US)
• Jonathan Miller (1934) (UK)
• Bill Watterson (1958) (US) – cartoonist Calvin and Hobbes
• Bill Maher (1956) (US)
• Ziad Rahbani (1956) (Lebanon)
• David Sedaris (1956) (US)
• Scott Adams (1957) (US)
• "Weird Al" Yankovic (1959) (US)
• Hugh Laurie (1959) (UK)
• Stephen Fry (1957) (UK)
• Wayne Federman (1957) (US)
• Jello Biafra (1958) (US)
• Victor Shenderovich (1958) (Russia)
• Ebrahim Nabavi (1958), winner of Prince Claus Award (2005)
• Robert Zubrin (US)
• Craig Brown (UK)
• Dave Barry (1947) – Pulitzer Prize winning humour columnist
• Luba Goy (Canada)
• David Lodge (author)
• Jeffrey Morgan (Canada) – CREEM, Metro Times
• Neil Innes (1944) (UK) – former Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band founder and member of The Rutles. Writer of satirical songs and books
• Phil Hendrie (1952) – radio host of The Phil Hendrie Show

Modern satirists (born 1960–present)

• Tim Minchin (UK)
• Bill Hicks (1961–1994) – stand-up comedian
• Bob Odenkirk (1962) – Mr. Show, Saturday Night Live, The Larry Sanders Show
• Jon Stewart (1962) – The Daily Show
• Stephen Colbert (1964) – The Colbert Report, The Daily Show
• David Cross (1964) – Mr. Show, Arrested Development
• Chris Morris (1965) – Brass Eye, The Day Today
• Michael "Atters" Attree (UK)
• Charlie Brooker – Nathan Barley
• Stoney Burke (US)
• Dave Chappelle (US)
• Bret Easton Ellis (1964)
• Martin Sonneborn (Germany; well-known for pranking/"bribing" FIFA executives in order to vote for Germany as the host of the 2006 soccer world cup)
• Ephraim Kishon (Israel)
• Rick Mercer (1969) – Rick Mercer Report
• Greg Thomey (1961) (Canada)
• Jessica Holmes (Canada)
• Percival Everett (US)
• Scott Dikkers (US)
• Sabina Guzzanti (Italy)
• Mike Judge (US)
• Stephane Guillon (France)
• Craig Lauzon (Canada)
• Victor Lewis-Smith – TV Offal
• Daniele Luttazzi (Italy)
• Seth MacFarlane – Family Guy
• Aaron McGruder (US) – The Boondocks (comic strip) and The Boondocks (TV series)
• Lisa Kennedy Montgomery (US)
• The Moustache Brothers (Mandalay, Myanmar)
• Ebrahim Nabavi (Iran)
• Page the Village Idiot (1966)
• Douglas Coupland – Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
• Alan Park (Canada)
• Trey Parker – South Park
• Kioumars Saberi Foumani (Iran)
• Mark A. Rayner (Canada)
• Amy Sedaris (US)
• Sarah Silverman (US)
• Bo Burnham (1990) (US)
• Matt Stone – South Park
• Sacha Baron Cohen (1971) – Borat, Da Ali G Show
• Jacob Appel (1973) – playwight (Causa Mortis, Arborophilia)
• Jhonen Vasquez (1974) Johnny The Homicidal Maniac, Squee, etc.
• George Ouzounian (1978) – Well known Internet author of The Best Page In The Universe
• Erik Larsen (1962) "Savage Dragon" comic book from Image Comics.
• Ian Hislop (1960) – Private Eye
• Chris Lilley (1975) – Summer Heights High, We Can Be Heroes: Finding The Australian of the Year, Big Bite
• Mark Morford (Present) – Notes and Errata, San Francisco Chronicle, SF Gate
• David Thorne (Present) (AU)
• Chuck Palahniuk (US)
• Nigel Blackwell, Half Man Half Biscuit (UK)
• Viktor Shenderovich, Nakh-Nakh, (Russia)
• Viatcheslav Yatsko, (Russia, well known for satirical papers and poems which make fun of Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev).

Notable satires in contemporary popular culture

In modern culture, much satire is often the work of several individuals collectively, as in magazines and television. Hence the following list.

Books

• Gordon, William A. Four Dead in Ohio: Was There a Conspiracy at Kent State? Lake Forest, CA: North Ridge Books, 1995.

Print

• Le Canard enchaîné (weekly French satirical newspaper)
• Charlie Hebdo (weekly French satirical paper)
• Li'l Abner (US comic strip)
• Pogo (US comic strip)
• Doonesbury (US comic strip)
• The Boondocks (US comic strip)
• The Chaser (Australian newspaper and TV shows)
• Cho Ramaswamy (Thuglak – Tamil magazine)
• Faux Faulkner contest (annually published in Hemispheres magazine until 2005)
• Humor Times (monthly US magazine)
• Mad (satirical comic book and magazine)
• The Onion (US magazine)
• Private Eye (UK magazine)
• The Second Supper (US magazine)
• The Tart (Fortnightly UK newspaper)
• Titanic (German magazine)
• Winebibber (Christian satirical magazine)

Television and radio

• The Simpsons and Futurama (Matt Groening)
• Howard Stern (radio personality "The Howard Stern Show")
• The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (US Talk Show)
• The Colbert Report (US Talk Show)
• The Day Today (UK TV news parody by Chris Morris)
• Brass Eye (UK current affairs TV-show parody by Chris Morris)
• On the Hour (UK news radio parody by Chris Morris)
• This Hour Has 22 Minutes (Canadian TV show)
• South Park (Trey Parker & Matt Stone)
• The Chaser (Australian newspaper and TV shows)
• Facelift (New Zealand Political show)
• Spitting Image (UK TV show famous for its puppets)
• Yes Minister (also "Yes, Prime Minister" – UK TV show satirising government)
• Nip/Tuck (Ryan Murphy)
• Have I Got News For You – Long running UK TV panel show
• Nathan Barley – 2005 UK TV satire by Chris Morris and Charlie Brooker.
• The Chaser's War on Everything – Australian satire with an emphasis on attacking 'everyone'.
• Seinfeld (Jerry Seinfeld)
• Royal Canadian Air Farce (1993–2007) (Don Ferguson, Roger Abbott, Luba Goy)
• Air Farce Live (2007–present) (Don Ferguson, Roger Abbott, Luba Goy)
• Monty Python's Flying Circus
• Phil Hendrie (radio personality "The Phil Hendrie Show")
• Family Guy, American Dad! & The Cleveland Show (Seth MacFarlane)
• Mock the Week – UK TV comedy panel show
• The Larry Sanders Show – (Garry Shandling)
• Entourage – (Doug Ellin)
• 30 Rock – (Tina Fey)
• Glenn Martin, DDS – A Nick@Nite show
• Episodes – David Crane
• Better Off Ted – (Victor Fresco)
• Onion News Network
• The Boondocks – (Aaron McGruder)

Music

• "Mercedes Benz" is a McClure-Joplin song sung by Janis Joplin
• Culturcide's album Tacky Souvenirs of Pre-Revolutionary America overdubbed new, satirical lyrics onto such pop hits as "We Are the World".
• "Weird Al" Yankovic is a satirical songwriter/singer/rapper.
• Mark Russell is an American political satirist known for his many appearances on PBS
• John Austin's album If I Was a Latin King satirizes Mexican and Latin pop music and Christian dogma
• Peter Gabriel's song The Barry Williams Show satirizes talk shows which showcase domestic topics of a taboo or shocking nature (and the viewing public's fascination with such content).
• 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.
• Eminem is a rapper whose lyrics sometimes contain satire.
• 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.
• The Dead Milkmen is a satirical punk rock/cowpunk band from the early 1980's.

Film

• Blazing Saddles (Warner Bros. 1974 Comedy movie directed by Mel Brooks, satirising racism.)
• Casino Royale (A 1967 surrealistic satire on the James Bond series and entire spy genre).
• This Is Spinal Tap (satire of heavy metal culture and "rockumentaries")
• Clueless
• Thank You for Smoking
• Team America: World Police (2004 film satirizing Hollywood action flicks as well as post-9/11 American foreign policy)
• Wag the Dog
• The Rules of Attraction
• Best in Show
• I Heart Huckabees
• Starship Troopers
• Scary Movie
• Dr. Strangelove (Satirical comedy relating war and sex)
• Planet of the Apes (1968) Gorillas, orangutans, and chimpanzees control a future version of earth in which humans are mute beasts; the ruling gorillas and orangutans reject evolutionary theory and the ability of the humans to think because they don't speak.
• The Great Dictator
• South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (a film satirizing censorship)
• Network
• Otaku no Video (1993 anime satirizing the otaku subculture)
• Adaptation.
• Brazil
• S.O.B. (satire on Hollywood)
• Election
• Not Another Teen Movie (a satire of the teen film genre)
• Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
• Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
• Citizen Ruth
• The Hospital
• Weapons of Mass Distraction
• Little Children
• Bulworth
• Man Bites Dog
• The Simpsons Movie
• Smile (a satire on beauty pageants and small town life)
• Bob Roberts
• The Player
• War, Inc.
• Britannia Hospital
• Fight Club (a dark satire on consumerism, cults, and extremism)
• American Psycho
• Tropic Thunder
• Hostel (darkly satirizes Western view of European cultures, the extent of commercial enterprise as well as the default darkness of human nature)
• Simon (satirical commentary on the effects of mass media in pop culture)
• American History X (satirizes race/racism in a contemporary setting)
• They Live
• Land of the Dead (satire of post-9/11 America state and of the Bush administration)
• The Wicker Man (satire of cults and religion)
• The Great Dictator, a satire on Hitler
• Monty Python's Life of Brian, a satire on miscommunication, religion and Christianity
• The Player, a satire of Hollywood, directed by Robert Altman
• "In The Loop", a satire of the 2003 invasion of Iraq
• Elvis Gratton, a French Canadian/Québécois series on a Federalist
• Fubar
• The Man Who Knew Too Little

Video games

• Fallout
• Fallout 2
• Fallout 3
• Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
• Grand Theft Auto IV
• Crash: Mind over Mutant

Internet

• BBspot
• Christwire
• Pat Condell
• Landover Baptist Church (US website satirizing Fundamentalist Christians)
• The Onion
• NewsBiscuit
• Maddox
• The Skunk
• ScrappleFace
• Uncyclopedia (satirical parody of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
• The Second Supper
• Jeremy Nell (South African cartoonist)
• MAVAV (satire of video game misconceptions and stereotypes)
• Encyclopedia Dramatica
• Adequacy.org
• Faking News (Indian news satire website)
• The Daily Mash (U.K. satirical news website)
• The Taxman (British-based campaigning satirical online newspaper)
• Latma
• Will Roberts - Modern Day Will Rogers
• Snat
• DerisiveDuck