This is an encyclopaedic work focused on political satire.
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MADness, or bludgeoning the reader or viewer with a lecture conveying the correct view
in Memoir, Reflections
One of my favourite reads in my teens and 20s was MAD magazine. It was quite humorous, and took the rise out of just about everything, but in a gentle way, in contrast to the vituperative stuff that passes for satire these days.
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Is satire dead?
It seems to me that for satire to work it has to walk a fine line between being so close to reality that it’s not funny, and so far-fetched that it’s not credible.
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