John Morrison Clarke (29 July 1948 – 9 April 2017) was a New Zealand comedian, writer and satirist who lived and worked in Australia from the late 1970s...

Charter project established by John Major. Major was also satirised by Patrick Wright with his book 101 Uses for a John Major (based on a comic book of...

at his assumption of command, contradicted his grandiloquent claims, satirised his manner. Curtin did not. He seized the chance to share authority with...

and ruined the careers of several prominent surgeons. The affair was satirised on many occasions, not least by the pictorial satirist and social critic...

television series The Games with John Clarke which starred Clarke, Gina Riley, Bryan Dawe and Nicholas Bell. The Games satirised the Sydney Organising Committee...

historical works. In literary circles he became unpopular by satirising Lord Byron. Clarke was born in Maryport, Cumberland, and went to work for a Mr...

religion and secularism in two-minute 'sermons' to the camera. Morgan also satirised extreme nationalist "Little Irelanders", by playing an irate and bigoted...

described himself as a pro-faith atheist. Bremner, Bird and Fortune often satirised Campbell during the Blair years. In 2005, Campbell was played by Jonathan...

the Rising's leaders had been executed—Pearse, Thomas MacDonagh and Tom Clarke—Redmond said in the House of Commons: "This outbreak, happily, seems to...

television comedy programme that premiered in 2005 on BBC Four. The series satirises the inner workings of modern British government. It follows the running...

Hugh John Mungo Grant (born 9 September 1960) is an English actor. He established himself early in his career as a charming and vulnerable romantic leading...

Cable, and Jonathan Lynn, co-writer of Yes Minister, who was inspired to satirise politicians after encountering the group at the Cambridge Union Society...

narrator for the Coen Brothers' Hollywood comedy Hail, Caesar!, which satirised the 1950s Hollywood film industry and featured an ensemble cast including...

"late-capitalist" Western society, whose perceived absurdity he often satirised through grotesque caricature. He was portrayed by some literary critics...

(Receptionist) William McInnes as Sir Robert Jefferson John Clarke as Commissioning Editor Sigrid Thornton as a satirised version of herself Alan Hopgood as Judge Furphy...

Oxford Road Show, Network 7 and The Word.[citation needed] It was also satirised by Not the Nine O'Clock News[citation needed] (as Hey Wow), which began...

Reid voice). One of the most-watched shows of the 1980s, Spitting Image satirised politics, entertainment, sport and British popular culture of the era...

filmreference.com. Retrieved May 23, 2009. "John Briley > Filmography". allmovie. Retrieved May 23, 2009. Clarke, Gerald; Kane, Joseph J.; Simpson, Janice...

unpleasant piece of television that degraded children much more than it satirised either the media or celebrities or politicians." An editorial piece in...

with caricatures and ugly social truths. While good characters are also satirised, a considered sentimentality replaces satirical ferocity. This is a characteristic...

challenged. It won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel in 2005 and was nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. Though book...

play, Brad y Llyfrau Gleision ("Treason of the Blue Books"). The play satirised the government commissioners and their Welsh witnesses. According to Phil...

comedians Bill Bailey and Mitch Benn. Both the theme and obsessive fans were satirised on The Chaser's War on Everything. The theme tune has also appeared on...

program The Live Mike between 1978 and 1982, sketch comedian Dermot Morgan satirised "Little Irelanders", by playing a bigoted Gaelic Athletic Association...

Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas) is a postmodern science fiction novel by John Scalzi that satirizes Star Trek. The book was published by Tor Books in June...

of which were reused by other shows for decades. Elements of the show satirised contemporary life in 1950s Britain, parodying aspects of show business...

(later abridged and renamed Fanny Hill), written in 1748 by John Cleland. While the text satirised the literary conventions and fashionable manners of 18th...

A Harlot's Progress. In an early example of the social novel, Dickens satirises child labour, domestic violence, the recruitment of children as criminals...

Maria Jane Clarke (d. 1874), daughter of the Hon. James Clarke and cousin of Sir Simon Haughton Clarke, Bt, whose great-great grandson, Major John Cranmer-Byng...

preserving the SDP's independence. The relationship was also mercilessly satirised by Spitting Image which portrayed Steel as a squeaky voiced midget, literally...