Genre: Satire

Satire uses humor as a weapon — mocking folly, power, and pretension to expose the truth underneath the joke.

  • In the Loop (2009) Cover

    In the Loop (2009)

    Armando Iannucci's 2009 spin-off from The Thick of It. British and American officials bumble toward Middle East war. Tucker.
    Comedy • Satire
    May 19, '26
  • Network (1976) Cover

    Network (1976)

    Sidney Lumet's 1976 TV news satire. Paddy Chayefsky screenplay. Peter Finch's I'm mad as hell speech. Predictive and ferocious.
    Drama • Satire
    May 19, '26
  • Dr. Strangelove (1964) Cover

    Dr. Strangelove (1964)

    Kubrick's 1964 Cold War satire. Sellers in three roles, Scott as Buck Turgidson. The film that established what political satire could do on film.
    Comedy • Satire
    May 17, '26
  • The Cab Driver of Oz Cover

    The Cab Driver of Oz

    A cab driver from Queens gets dropped into Oz by a tornado and spends three years driving a Toyota Camry on the Yellow Brick Road, discovering that fairy tales have terrible infrastructure.
    Fantasy • Satire
    2.0 K Feb 21, '26 Fiction Story
    E
  • 20 Comedy and Satire Writing Exercises with Craft Mechanics Cover

    20 Comedy and Satire Writing Exercises with Craft Mechanics

    20 exercises in incongruity, escalation, timing, status reversal, and the structural mechanics that make prose genuinely funny. Genres: Comedy, Satire, Humor
    Comedy • Humor • Satire
    3.4 K Jan 22, '26 Ongoing
    E
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