satirist
C3319
concept
A satirist is a creator who uses humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize human vices, social follies, or institutional flaws.
Observed surface forms (2)
- caricaturist ×3
- social satirist ×1
Instances (20)
- Mendele Mocher Sforim
- Evelyn Waugh
- Terry Pratchett
- Thomas Carlyle
- Alexander Pope
- Jonathan Swift
- Horatius
- Lenny Bruce via concept surface "social satirist"
- Voltaire
- Ulrich von Hutten
- Peter Cook
- Sacha Baron Cohen
- Armando Iannucci
- Ishmael Reed
- George Grosz via concept surface "caricaturist"
- Barry Humphries
- Mort Sahl
- Lyonel Feininger via concept surface "caricaturist"
- Al Hirschfeld via concept surface "caricaturist"
- Ben Jonson