#satire

#satire

The year of our landlord 2025 could have been better. It is no wonder the Irish Independent has turned to me, the revered temporary deputy stand-in editor at Waterford Whispers News and renowned philanthropist, landlord and man of the people Bill Badbody, to put a positive spin on things. Where some people see a world on fire, I see kindling to warm your hands over on a cold night and, if you are lucky enough, profit from.

If the phrase "military industrial complex romantic comedy" rings your bells, Hailey Gates' feature directorial debut " Atropia" just might be for you. What if we told you it's also a bit of a satire? And it's based on real events and places? And it stars Alia Shawkat and Callum Turner, whose forbidden romance really blossoms inside the confines of, well, no spoilers here, but a decidedly unsexy space?

(Yes, Fackham rhymes with a crass kiss-off to the aristocracy.) Written by British Irish comedian and TV presenter Jimmy Carr and directed by Jim O'Hanlon, Fackham Hall has plenty of material to work with the historical soap's grand finale just premiered in September, 15 years after Julian Fellowes's series started going upstairs-downstairs with ludicrous portent and wastes none of it.

Painted sometime in the Rameside Period (1292-1075 B.C.E.), the fragments above-called the "Turin Erotic Papyrus" because of their "discovery" in the Egyptian Museum of Turin, Italy-only hint at the frank versions of ancient sex they depict (see a graphic partial reconstruction at the bottom of the post-probably NSFW). The number of sexual positions the papyrus illustrates-twelve in all-"fall somewhere between impressively acrobatic and unnervingly ambitious," one even involving a chariot.

Missing You Did you know the moon was so old It might have to go into a home? It keeps edging nearer The way old people do. Goya wore candles on his hat But Humphrey Davy invented the miner's lamp. On Enceladus a day is longer than a year. Tonight, we have the Spanish Civil War. You can't go on like this, moon, Peering into people's bedrooms And the stars have their own lives to lead. When did you last think of Cassiopeia? Really? Think!

One of the goals of the Pseutro is encouraging conversation through shared laughter. "I care about being engaged to make the city a better place," they said. "That means that, also, I want to help other people do the same." To help ground the satire, all the articles that inspired the posts are linked via Linktree in the bio. While recent posts about Alcaraz and Supervisor Connie Chan 's congressional campaign drew strong reactions,

Women are ruining the workplace. Before women, of course, the workplace was perfect. It was full of trees. There was no need to labor with your hands. You didn't have to wear pants, or any form of clothes. Every kind of animal was there. You could just sit around all day and call, "Quiet. Quiet, piggy!"and nobody batted an eye, except for the pigs. It was your job to name them.

The teaser for Charli's upcoming tour mockumentary debuted on November 20, shot behind the scenes at Charli's actual tour dates. In it, Charli plays a parody version of herself, self-important and self-serious, as she attempts to control the brat phenomenon. "Nothing is more important than Brat," she claims. Maybe, as comedian Tessa Belle theorized on StraightioLab, Charli XCX really is the new Judd Apatow.

It takes a certain kind of advertiser to want to promote its brand alongside a headline like "RFK Jr. Greets Trick-Or-Treaters With Big Bowl Of Ape Glands." That's a real headline on The Onion, by the way. It's no surprise, then, that the satirical news site has to get creative with its marketing and monetization, CMO Leila Brillson told AdExchanger. Unlike other well-known publishers, name recognition doesn't automatically make The Onion a desirable advertising partner. Or, rather, it depends.

Sylvia has a pretty simple secret to how he kept the show's twists and turns straight: "We started writing Season 2 before season one had even aired," he tells Meredith, noting that the writers' room opened while he was still in post-production. That meant he wasn't writing to online reactions: "I didn't have to worry about the audience's response," he says, calling the freedom surprisingly liberating.

Carpenter portrayed Virginia, a saleswoman promoting an ergonomic travel pillow that happened to resemble a vagina. Bev takes a call from a man who points out that "it looks like a lady's va..." before he's cut off. The pillow even included a clitoris "that lines up with your neck's pressure points and actually vibrates," Virginia said. "If you touch it right here, you'll be in heaven. Let me show you.

Last night's revival at Glyndebourne of Sir Peter Hall's classic 1981 Festival production of Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream' was dreamlike and fantastical. Tonight I'm at the Coliseum for English National Opera's new semi-staged Albert Herring', Britten's lacerating chamber opera satirising English small-town mores. The ENO have had some success with their semi-staged productions including Gloriana', Duke Bluebeard's Castle' and Suor Angelica' and I'm fascinated to see if Albert Herring', directed and designed by multi-awardwinning Antony McDonald, will suit this pared back approach.

On Wednesday, Trump told reporters, "The amazing thing is, you look at Portland and you see fires all over the place. You see fights, and I mean just violence. It's just so crazy." The president went on to compare Portland to a postapocalyptic movie that features "bombed out cities." He added, "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have sewers anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows. But most of the retailers have left."

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On an initial glance, a video that's going viral on social media looks like a typical 1990s TV commercial for a children's toy set of a tropical island: there are palm trees, a waterfall, and - wait a minute - there's also a secret massage room, and even an "Orange Man" action figure who looks exactly like Donald Trump and says "don't release the files" in an ominous voice.