satirist

While a satirist is using parody to actually change opinions.

Nick Douglas was a quality satirist, and under him things were a good balance of smarmy and smart.

Now that John Oliver (a satirist) does a story it's all of a sudden front page news?!

You cannot be a good satirist and be so long removed from the world you are satirizing.

The phrase, as it is normally quoted in Latin, comes from the Satires of Juvenal, the 1st–2nd century Roman satirist.

Blindboy Boatclub: An Irish satirist who wears a plastic bag on his head in public appearances.

I would also add to the list Bassem Youssef, Egypt's satirist, who happens to be a cardiac surgeon.

Surely the point of satire is cast a critical light on things in order to dispel what the satirist sees as ignorance.

I'm not a satirist, but if I were, I'm guessing this would be the best kind of praise.

You can't growth hack a satire website without first being a first-class satirist.

When Henry Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973, the distinguished musical satirist Tom Lehrer decided that he could no longer perform.

To go from a brilliant satirist to becoming terminally online and just completely falling off the far right cliffs of insanity is incredibly sad.

If you get chance and haven't already seen it, Andy's “satirist for hire” stand-up show is superb.

Tom Lehrer is a brilliant satirist and song writer, but he was never a "concert pianist" in the sense that that phrase is typically used, and I understand he essentially stopped being active as a research mathematician ~50 years ago.

Saltykov-Shchedrin, great Russian satirist, wrote more than a hundred years ago: "If I were to doze off and re-awake in a hundred years and someone asked me what is happening in Russia, my answer would be unhesitating: people are drinking and stealing".