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unusual facts about political satire


Gursimran Khamba

Gursimran Khamba (also known only as Khamba) is a stand-up comic, political satirist, and a writer from Delhi, India.


Happening Happy Hippy Party

The Happening Happy Hippy Party, or HHHP, was a British political satire website and ezine that ran between 1997 and 2002, emerging during the dotcom boom in British satire.

Jonathan Watson

Watson has also turned his hand to political satire with his Watson's Wind Up show which was recorded on Fridays at the Glasgow Film Theatre and broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland; the popularity of this led to Watson performing satires of Scottish politicians such as Cathy Jamieson, George Galloway and Charles Kennedy on Offside.

Konrad Petzold

However his next movie "Dress", based on "The Emperor's New Clothes", was accused of hidden political satire, and he was temporarily dismissed from the profession.

Las delicias del poder

Las delicias del poder ("The Delights of Power") is a 1999 Mexican political satire comedy film directed by Iván Lipkies starring María Elena Velasco as La India María with Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Irma Dorantes, and Adalberto Martínez.


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Cuisines of the Axis of Evil and Other Irritating States

Cuisines of the Axis of Evil and Other Irritating States: A Dinner Party Approach to International Relations is a political satire-based cook book written with a left-leaning point of view authored by C. Christine Fair.

Diplomaniacs

The film in noted for its absurdist political satire, somewhat in the manner of Million Dollar Legs or Duck Soup, both of which were released within a year of Diplomaniacs.

Humayun Azad

A week prior to Dr Azad's assault, Delwar Hossain Sayeedi, one of the renowned religious leaders of Bangladesh demanded, in the parliament, that Dr Azad's political satire Pak Sar Jamin Sad Bad would be banned and demanded the introduction of the Blasphemy Act on the author.

Johannes Pääsuke

He made about 40 films in his career with 10 films still in existence − five newsreels, four documentaries, and one work of fiction, the political satire Karujaht Pärnumaal (Bear Hunt in the Pärnu County).

Martha Wilson

Martha Wilson’s signature performance work is political satire, impersonating First Ladies Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush and Second Lady Tipper Gore.

Mrbrown

The show showcases guests from various quarters of Singapore, and parodies a wide variety of subjects, ranging from VISA's advertising campaign starring Richard Gere, to political satire.

Orlando Urdaneta

On radio, he hosted with Pedro León Zapata, a humor and political satire program entitled Pájaro que vas volando.

Patrick Yandall

Patrick's song "Who's The Bossa Now" from the album "Samoa Soul" was used in the political satire film War, Inc. starring John Cusack and Marissa Tomei.

Robert Palfrader

There he has mainly done comedy shows, the most popular being echt fett, a hidden camera prank show (based on British format Trigger Happy TV), and Wir sind Kaiser (We are Emperor), a political satire where the Austrian Habsburg Monarchy is restituted.

Salter Street Films

Based on their reputation for political satire, American documentary film-maker Michael Moore approached Salter Street to produce his Bowling for Columbine project.

The Blindman and the Lame

Honoré Daumier made a political satire of it in a caricature titled "Blind system and paralytic diplomacy" published in Le Charivari in 1834.

Theodor Larsson

Sven Svenssons Sven — later recorded by the Swedish-American singers Olle i Skratthult and Charles G. Widdén — brought up the subject of temperance while De rysliga bolshevikerna (The terrible bolsheviks) was a sly piece of political satire.

Viva Zapatero!

Viva Zapatero! is a 2005 documentary by Sabina Guzzanti telling her side of the story regarding the conflict with Silvio Berlusconi over a late-night TV political satire show broadcast on RAI-3.