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How to explain satire in normal language???

  • 16-10-2016 2:14pm
    #1
    tomofson
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    In the pub last night me and a friend were having a lengthy conversation about a wide range of topics, eventually i was telling him about a movie i seen and told him the satire was amazing, he responds to me "what is satire?"

    I explain to him in a drunken way that satire is exposing agendas or policies you disagree with in a comical way. I then told him it was basically sarcasm with a purpose... Is that accurate? How would you explain satire???


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  • #2
    Harry Palmr
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    I found a dictionary on the interweb and it says
    the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc. ... a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule


  • #3
    Skyfarm
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    just say Fine Gael ,Fianna fail,Anti-everything and people will understand


  • #4
    frozenfrozen
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    IMO IMO IMO IMO there has to be an element of Poe's law when there is satire. It's just irony / sarcasm if it's too overtly comical. IMO IMO IMO IMO IMO


  • #5
    thee glitz
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    frozenfrozen wrote: »
    IMO IMO IMO IMO there has to be an element of Poe's law when there is satire. It's just irony / sarcasm if it's too overtly comical. IMO IMO IMO IMO IMO

    Like this you mean?


  • #6
    frozenfrozen
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    thee glitz wrote: »
    Like this you mean?

    haha yes some of those are very good, if somebody doesn't completely misinterpret it by ignoring subtext, context, and nuance then in my opinion it is not satire, or at least not good satire


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  • #7
    bodhrandude
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    You could learn a few things from the 1980s TV comedy The New Statesman, one of the best from the Late Rik Mayall. At the height of Tory rule in the UK this could be called satire comedy.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • #8
    Zubeneschamali
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,686 ✭✭✭✭Zubeneschamali


    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    I found a dictionary on the interweb and it says "the use of irony"

    So it's like rain on your wedding day?


  • #9
    Veloce150
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    The current American presidential election would be satrical if it was a work of fiction.


  • #10
    cml387
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    Peter Cook said of his Establishment club, a nightclub devoted to the satirising of politics in the 1960's, that he wanted it to be like the Berlin cabarets of the 30's "which did so much to prevent the rise of Adolf Hitler"


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