List of satirists and satires

List of satirists and satires

Below is a list of writers, cartoonists and others known for their involvement in satire - humorous social criticism. They are grouped by era and listed by year of birth. Also included is a list of modern satires.

Early Satirists

Aesop (c. 620 to 560 BC) - Fables
Aristophanes (c.448 BC to 380 BC) The Frogs, The Birds, and The Clouds
Leviticus
Gaius Lucilius (c.180-103 BC) - Books
Horace (65 BC to 8 BC)Satires
Ovid (43 BC to 17 AD) - The Art of Love
Petronius (c. AD 27-66) - Satyricon
Juvenal (c. 55-140) - 16 Satires
Lucian (c. AD 120-180)
Apuleius (c. AD 123-180 ) - The Golden Ass
The Thousand and One Nights - (9th century)

Middle Satirists

Obeid e zakani (?-1370), Akhlaq al-Ashraf ("Ethics of the Aristocracy")
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313 to 1375) - The Decameron
Chaucer (c. 1343 – 1400)
Erasmus (1466 to 1536) - The Praise of Folly
François Rabelais (c. 1493 to 1553) -- "Gargantua," "Pantagruel"
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 to 1616) - Don Quixote
Samuel Butler (1612-1680) - Hudibras
Molière (1622 – 1673)
John Dryden (1631-1700)
John Dryden (1631 to 1700)
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647-1680)
Jonathan Swift (1667 to 1745) - Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal
John Gay (1685-1732) - The Beggar's Opera
Alexander Pope (1688 to 1744)
Voltaire (1694-1778) - Candide
James Bramston(1694 - 1744)
Henry Fielding (1707 – 1754)
Laurence Sterne (1713 to 1768) - Tristram Shandy
James Beresford (1764 - 1840) The Miseries of Human Life

Modern Satirists (born 1800-1900)

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) – ‘’Hard Times’’
James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)
Mark Twain (1835-1910) -"Huckleberry Finn", "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court", "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914?) - The Devil's Dictionary, Tales of Soldiers and Civilians
Samuel "Erewhon" Butler (1835–1902)
Jaroslav Hasek (Czech)
Aldous Huxley (UK)
Alfred Jarry (French)
Thomas Nast (1840–1902)
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
H.L. Mencken (US)
Anatole France (1844–1924)
Jalil Mammadguluzadeh (1866–1931) (Azerbaijani)
H.H. Munro aka *Saki (1870–1916)
Radoje Domanovic (1873-1908)
Iraj Mirza (1874 - 1926)
Karl Kraus (1874 - 1936)
Will Rogers (1879–1935)
James Branch Cabell (1879-1958)
Ali Akbar Dehkhoda (1879–1959)
P. G. Wodehouse
Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940) - The Master and Margarita
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) - Point Counter Point, Brave New World

Modern Satirists (born 1900-1930)

Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966)
George Orwell (1903-1950) - Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four
Malcolm Muggeridge (1903-1990) (UK)
Kurt Vonnegut (1922-) - Breakfast of Champions, "Cat's Cradle"
Joseph Heller (1923-1999) - Catch-22
Günter Grass (1927-) - The Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse
Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) - Dr. Strangelove
Tom Lehrer (1928-) (US)
Ray Bradbury (US)
William Burroughs (US)
Dario Fo (Italy)
Flannery O'Connor (US)
C. Northcote Parkinson (UK)
Anna Russell (UK)
Gore Vidal (US)

Modern Satirists (born 1930-1960)

Tom Lehrer (1928-) - That Was the Year That Was, musician
Mordecai Richler (1931-2001) (Canada)
Tom Wolfe (1931-) - The Bonfire of the Vanities
Barry Humphries (1934-) "My Gorgeous Life", "The Life and Death of Sandy Stone", stage shows
Alan Bennett (1934-) (UK)
Dudley Moore (1935-2002) (UK)
Woody Allen (1935-) (US)
George Carlin(1937-) (stand-up comedian)
Peter Cook (1937-1995) - British Satire boom, Beyond the Fringe
Eleanor Bron (1938-) (UK)
David Frost (1939) (UK)
Frank Zappa (1940-1993) - We're Only In It For The Money
Kioumars Saberi Foumani (1941-2004)
Garrison Keillor (1942-) (US)
Lorne Michaels (1944-) - Saturday Night Live
Lewis Black (1948) - Stand up Comic, "Daily Show"
Jonathan Meades (1947-) (UK) - writer, broadcaster, satirist
Terry Pratchett (1948-) - The Discworld book series
Garry Trudeau (1948-) (US)
Christopher Guest (1948-) (US) - "This is Spinal Tap", "Waiting for Guffman"
Gary Larson (1950-) (US) - cartoonist
Steve Bell (1951-)
Al Franken (1951-) (US)
Christopher Buckley (1952-) - Thank You For Smoking, The White House Mess
Douglas Adams (1952-2001) (UK)
Carl Hiaasen (1953-) - Tourist Season, Double Whammy, Basket Case, Skinny Dip
Matt Groening (1954-) (US)
George C. Wolfe (1954-) - "The Colored Museum"
Michael Moore (1954-) (US) Bowling for Columbine
Howard Stern (1954-) (US)
Jonathan Miller (1954-) (UK)
Ziad Rahbani (1956-) (Lebanon)
David Sedaris (1956-) (US)
Scott Adams (1957-) (US)
"Weird Al" Yankovic (1957-) (US)
Wayne Federman (1957-) (US)
Jello Biafra (1958-) - Dead Kennedys
Ebrahim Nabavi (1958-), winner of Prince Claus Award (2005)
Robert Zubrin (US)
Josh Flannery {Canada}
Craig Brown (UK)
Dave Barry (1947-) - Pulitzer Prize winning humour columnist

Modern Satirists (born 1960-present)

Bill Hicks (1961-1994) - stand-up comedian
Bob Odenkirk (1962-) - Mr. Show, Saturday Night Live, The Larry Sanders Show
David Cross (1964-) - Mr. Show, Arrested Development
Stephen Colbert (1964-) - The Colbert Report, The Daily Show
Chris Morris (1965-) - Brass Eye, The Day Today
Michael "Atters" Attree (UK)
Charlie Brooker - Nathan Barley
Stoney Burke (US)
John Cann (At Large)
Dave Chappelle (US)
Bret Easton Ellis (1964-)
Stephen Colbert - The Colbert Report
Mark Garrison (US)
Scott Dikkers (US)
Sabina Guzzanti (Italy)
Bill Hicks (US)
Mike Judge (US)
Victor Lewis-Smith - TV Offal
Daniele Luttazzi (Italy)
Seth MacFarlane - Family Guy
Aaron McGruder (US)
Lisa Kennedy Montgomery (US)
Chris Morris - Brass Eye, Nathan Barley
The Moustache Brothers (Mandalay, Myanmar)
Ebrahim Nabavi (Iran)
Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club
Trey Parker - South Park
Kioumars Saberi Foumani (Iran)
Amy Sedaris (US)
Jon Stewart - The Daily Show
Matt Stone - South Park
Orl Unho (US)
Sarah Silverman (1970-) - The Sarah Silverman Program, The Aristocrats, The Larry Sanders Show
Sacha Baron Cohen (1971-) - Borat, Da Ali G Show
George Ouzounian (1978-) - Well known Internet author of The Best Page In The Universe
Erik Larsen (1992 - present) "The Savage Dragon" comic book from Image Comics.

Notable satires in contemporary popular culture

In modern culture, much satire is often the work of several individuals collectively, as in magazines and television. Hence the following list.

Print

Le Canard enchaîné (weekly French satirical newspaper)
The Second Supper (US Magazine)
The Onion (US Magazine)
Private Eye (United Kingdom magazine)
The Chaser (Australian newspaper and TV shows)
MAD Magazine (Juvenile satire magazine)
[1]The Spanner (Irish satirical website and magazine)

Television and radio

Howard Stern (radio personalty "The Howard Stern Show")
The Colbert Report (US Talk Show)
This Hour Has 22 Minutes (Canadian TV show)
South Park (Trey Parker & Matt Stone)
The Chaser (Australian newspaper and TV shows)
Facelift (New Zealand Political show)
Spitting Image (UK TV show famous for its puppets)
Yes Minister (also "Yes, Prime Minister" - UK TV show satirising government)

Music

"Mercedes-Benz" a McClure-Joplin song sung by Janis Joplin

Film

Blazing Saddles (Warner Bros. 1974 Comedy movie directed by Mel Brooks, satirising racism.)

Internet

Landover Baptist Church (US website satirizing Fundamentalist Christians)
[2]The Spanner (Irish satirical website and magazine)
Uncyclopedia the content-free encyclopedia (2005 - present) - Satirical parody of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.