# List of satirists and satires

This is an incomplete list of writers, cartoonists and others known for involvement in satire – humorous social criticism. They are grouped by era and listed by year of birth. Included is a list of modern satires.

## Early satirical authors

* Aesop (c. 620–560 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Aesop's Fables
* Diogenes (c. 412–600 BCE, Ancient Greece)
* Aristophanes (c. 448–380 BCE, Ancient Greece) – The Frogs, The Birds, and The Clouds
* Gaius Lucilius (c. 180–103 BCE, Roman Republic)
* Horace (65–8 BCE, Roman Republic) – Satires
* Ovid (43 BCE – 17 CE, Roman Republic/Roman Empire) – The Art of Love
* Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Hispania/Rome) – Apocolocyntosis
* Persius (34–62 CE, Roman Empire)
* Petronius (c. 27–66 CE, Roman Empire) – Satyricon
* Juvenal (1st to early 2nd cc. CE, Roman Empire) – Satires
* Lucian (c. 120–180 CE, Roman Empire)
* Apuleius (c. 123–180 CE, Roman Empire) – The Golden Ass
* Various authors (9th century CE and later) – One Thousand and One Nights, أَلْفُ لَيْلَةٍ وَلَيْلَةٌ

## Medieval, early modern and 18th-century satirists

* Godfrey of Winchester (died 1107, England)
* Ubayd Zakani (عبید زاکانی, died 1370, Persia) – Akhlaq al-Ashraf (Ethics of the Aristocracy)
* Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375, Italy) – The Decameron
* James Bramston (1694–1743, England) – satirical poet
* Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343–1400, England) – The Canterbury Tales
* Sebastian Brant (also Brandt) (1458 – 1521, Strasbourg) – Das Narrenschiff (Ship of Fools)
* Gil Vicente (c. 1465–1536, Portugal)
* Erasmus (1466–1536, Burgundian Netherlands/Switzerland) – The Praise of Folly
* François Rabelais (c. 1493–1553, France) – Gargantua and Pantagruel
* Various authors (16th century CE and later, Italy) – Talking statues of Rome
* Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616, Spain) – Don Quixote
* Luis de Góngora (1561–1627, Spain)
* William Shakespeare (1564–1616, England) – Sonnet 130
* Francisco de Quevedo (1580–1645, Spain)
* Juan de Tassis, 2nd Count of Villamediana (1582–1622, Spain)
* Martin Marprelate (true identity unknown, fl. 1588–1589, England) – Marprelate tracts
* Samuel Butler (1612–1680, England) – Hudibras
* Molière (1622–1673, France) – Le Malade imaginaire
* Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623–1673, England)
* John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647–1680, England)
* Jonathan Swift (1667–1745, Ireland/England) – Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Tale of a Tub
* Alicia D'Anvers [née Clarke] (baptised 1668 – 1725, England) – Academia, or, The Humours of the University of Oxford, 1691; The Oxford-Act, 1693
* John Gay (1685–1732, England) – The Beggar's Opera
* Alexander Pope (1688–1744, England)
* Voltaire (1694–1778, France) – Candide
* James Bramston (1694–1744, England)
* William Hogarth (1697–1764, England) – Beer Street and Gin Lane
* Nicholas Amhurst (1697–1742, England)
* David Raphael ben Abraham Polido (fl. 17th and 18th cc.)
* Henry Fielding (1707–1754, England)
* Laurence Sterne (1713–1768, Ireland/England) – The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
* James Beresford (1764–1840, England) – The Miseries of Human Life
* Ivan Krylov (1769–1844, Russia)
* Jane Austen (1775–1817, England) – Love and Freindship
* Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866, England) – Nightmare Abbey, Crochet Castle
* Eaton Stannard Barrett (1786–1820, Ireland) – The Heroine
* Charles Etienne Boniface (1787–1853, France/South Africa) – De Nieuwe Ridderorde of De Temperantisten (in Dutch, The New Knighthood or the Temperance Societies)
* Giuseppe Gioachino Belli – (1791–1863, Italy)
* Benjamin Franklin - (1706-1790, US) - Silence Dogood Letters, On Titles of Honor, The Busy-Body Letters, A Witch Trial at Mount Holly, Poor Richard's Almanack, Join, or Die, Felons and Rattlesnakes, The Speech of Polly Baker, On the Slave-Trade

## Modern satirists (born 1800–1900)

* Evan Bevan (1803–1866, Wales) – satirical poetry in Welsh
* Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852, Russia) – The Government Inspector, Dead Souls
* Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849, US) – The Man That Was Used Up, A Predicament, Never Bet the Devil Your Head
* William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863, England) – Vanity Fair
* Charles Dickens (1812–1870, England) – Hard Times, A Tale of Two Cities
* Eugène Edine Pottier (1816–1887, France)
* James Russell Lowell (1819–1891, US) – A Fable for Critics
* George Derby, also known as John P. Squibob and John Phoenix (1823–1861, US)
* Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826–1889, Russia)
* Lewis Carroll (1832–1898, England) – Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass
* Samuel Butler (1835–1902, England) – Erewhon
* Mark Twain (1835–1910, US) – Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
* W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911, England)
* Narushima Ryūhoku (成島柳北, 1837–1884, Japan)
* Thomas Nast (1840–1902, US)
* Ambrose Bierce (1842 – c. 1914, US) – The Devil's Dictionary
* Anatole France (1844–1924, France)
* José Maria de Eça de Queirós (1845–1900, Portugal)
* Oscar Wilde (1854–1900, Ireland/England) – The Importance of Being Earnest
* George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950, England)
* Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927, England) – Three Men in a Boat, Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
* Anton Chekhov (1860–1904, Russia) – The Lady with the Dog
* O. Henry (1862–1910, US) short story writer known for surprise endings, namesake of the O. Henry Award
* Jalil Mammadguluzadeh (1866–1931, Azerbaijan)
* Lakshminath Bezbaroa (1868–1938, India, writing in Assamese)
* Saki, also known as H. H. Munro (1870–1916, England)
* Trilussa (1873–1950, Italy)
* Alfred Jarry (1873–1907, France) – Ubu Roi
* Radoje Domanović (1873–1908, Serbia)
* Iraj Mirza (ایرج میرزا, 1874–1926, Iran)
* Karl Kraus (1874–1936, Austria)
* Will Rogers (1879–1935, US)
* James Branch Cabell (1879–1958, US)
* Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda (علی‌اکبر دهخدا, 1879–1959, Iran)
* H. L. Mencken (1880–1956, US) – cultural critic and author
* Arkady Averchenko (1881–1925, Russia)
* P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975, England/US)
* Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957, England)
* Jaroslav Hašek (1883–1923, Austria-Hungary/Czechoslovakia) – The Good Soldier Švejk
* Oscar Cesare (1885–1948, Sweden/US)
* Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977, England) – Modern Times, The Great Dictator, Monsieur Verdoux
* Kurt Tucholsky (1890–1935, Germany)
* Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940, Russia/Soviet Union) – Heart of a Dog, The Master and Margarita
* Dorothy Parker (1893–1967, US) satirical writer of humorous short stories, poetry and book reviews
* Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930, Russia/Soviet Union)
* Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) – Point Counter Point, Brave New World
* James Thurber (1894-1961, US) – "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"
* Mikhail Zoshchenko (1894–1958, Soviet Union)
* Josep Pla (1897–1981, Spain [Catalonia])
* Ilf and Petrov: Ilya Ilf (1897–1937, Soviet Union) and Yevgeni Petrov (1903–1942, Soviet Union) – The Twelve Chairs, The Little Golden Calf
* Yury Olesha (1899–1960, Soviet Union) – Three Fat Men, Envy

## Modern satirists (born 1900–1930)

* Stella Gibbons (1902–1989, England) – author of comic novel Cold Comfort Farm
* Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966, England) – Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Scoop
* George Orwell (1903–1950, England) – Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four
* Malcolm Muggeridge (1903–1990, England)
* Dr. Seuss (1904–1991, US) – The Lorax (1971), The Butter Battle Book (1984)
* Kurt Kusenberg (1904–1983, Germany)
* Daniil Kharms (1905–1942, Russia/USSR)
* H. F. Ellis (1907–2000, England) – The Papers of A. J. Wentworth, B.A., 1949
* Jean Effel (1908–1982, France) – cartoonist, author of the cartoon cycle The Creation of the World
* Natyaguru Nurul Momen (1908-1990, Bangladesh) - pioneer satirist & playwright, author of We are Brothers All, Lest we Forget, Forbidden Pleasures, Bahurupa, Is Law an Ass etc.
* Al Capp (1909–1979, US)
* Arkady Raikin (1911–1987, Russia/USSR) – stand-up comedian
* Aubrey Menen (1912–1989, Britain, India) – satirist, novelist and philosopher
* Walt Kelly (1913–1973, US)
* Anthony Burgess (1917–1993, England) – A Clockwork Orange
* Warrington Colescott (1921–2018, US)
* Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007, US) – Slaughterhouse-Five, Breakfast of Champions, Cat's Cradle
* Lenny Bruce (1925–1966, US) – stand-up comedian
* Joseph Heller (1923–1999, US) – Catch-22
* Art Buchwald (1924–2007) – political humor column in The Washington Post
* Terry Southern (1924–1995, US) – The Magic Christian, Dr. Strangelove
* Günter Grass (1927–2015, Germany) – The Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse
* Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999, US) – Dr. Strangelove
* Harvey Kurtzman (1924–1993, US)
* Tom Lehrer (born 1928, US) – That Was the Year That Was
* Jules Feiffer (1929, US) – satirical cartoonist who wrote the original play and screenplay for Little Murders
* Ray Bradbury (US)
* William S. Burroughs (US) – Naked Lunch
* Dario Fo (Italy)
* Flannery O'Connor (US)
* C. Northcote Parkinson (England)
* Anna Russell (England/Canada)
* Gore Vidal (US) – Myra Breckinridge
* Mel Brooks (US) – The Producers, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein
* Erma Bombeck (1927, US)
* Allan Sherman (1924–1973, US) – musician, parodist, television producer, voice actor
* Stan Freberg (1926, US) – musician, parodist, voice actor
* Brian O'Nolan (1911–1966, Ireland) – At Swim-Two-Birds (as Flann O'Brien)
* Ephraim Kishon (1924, Israel)
* Jerry Lewis (1926-2017) (US) – comedian, screenwriter, director

## Contemporary satirists (born 1930–1960)

* Joey Skaggs (born 1945, US) - artist and media satirist
* Mordecai Richler (1931–2001, Canada)
* Tom Wolfe (born 1931, US) – The Bonfire of the Vanities
* Vladimir Voinovich (born 1932, Soviet Union/Russia) – The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, Moscow 2042
* Robert Anton Wilson (1932–2007, US) – The Illuminatus! Trilogy
* Barry Humphries (1934–2023, Australia) – My Gorgeous Life, The Life and Death of Sandy Stone, stage shows
* Jonathan Miller (1934–2019, England)
* Alan Bennett (born 1934, England)
* Mykhailo Zhvanetskyi (born 1934, Soviet Union/Russia)
* Dudley Moore (1935–2002, England)
* David Lodge (born 1935, US) – author of "Campus Trilogy"
* Woody Allen (born 1935, US)
* Thomas Pynchon (born 1937, US) – V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow
* Richard Ingrams (born 1937, England)
* John Kennedy O'Toole (born 1937, US)
* George Carlin (1937–2008, US) – stand-up comedian
* Peter Cook (1937–1995, England) – of the Satire boom, Beyond the Fringe
* Eleanor Bron (born 1938, England)
* David Frost (1939–2013, England)
* Grigori Gorin (1940–2000, Soviet Union/Russia)
* Frank Zappa (1940–1993, US) – We're Only in It for the Money, Cruising with Ruben and the Jets
* Sergei Dovlatov (1941–1990, Soviet Union/Russia)
* Kioumars Saberi Foumani (کیومرث صابری فومنی, 1941–2004, Iran)
* Randy Newman (born 1943, US) - Sail Away, Good Old Boys
* Neil Innes (1944–2019, England) – former Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band founder and member of The Rutles. Writer of satirical songs and books
* Gennady Khazanov (born 1945, Soviet Union/Russia) – stand-up comedian
* Luba Goy (born 1945, Canada)
* Roger Abbott (born 1946, Canada) – sketch comedian.
* Lewis Grizzard (born 1946, US)
* Sue Townsend (1946–2014, England) – Adrian Mole
* Don Ferguson (born 1946, Canada)
* Jonathan Meades (born 1947, England) – writer, broadcaster and satirist
* P.J. O'Rourke (1947-2022, US)
* Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) – humorist and fantasy novelist, The Discworld book series
* Lewis Black (born 1948, US) – stand-up comic, The Daily Show
* Mikhail Zadornov (born 1948, Soviet Union/Russia)
* Garry Trudeau (born 1948, US)
* Jaafar Abbas (living, Sudan)
* Christopher Guest (born 1948, US) – This Is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman
* Georg Schramm (born 1949, Germany) – Scheibenwischer, Neues aus der Anstalt, kabarett artist
* Gary Larson (born 1950, US) – cartoonist
* Fran Lebowitz (born 1950, US) – The Fran Lebowitz Reader, Public Speaking (film) – NYC public intellectual
* Bailey White (born 1950, US)
* Joe Queenan (born 1950, US)
* Steve Bell (born 1951, England)
* Bill Bryson (born 1951, US)
* Al Franken (born 1951, US)
* Douglas Adams (1952–2001, England) – The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
* Mary Walsh (born 1952, Canada)
* Phil Hendrie (born 1952, US) – radio host of The Phil Hendrie Show
* Robert Zubrin (born 1952, US)
* Christopher Buckley (born 1952) – Thank You for Smoking, The White House Mess
* Carl Hiaasen (born 1953) – Tourist Season, Double Whammy, Basket Case, Skinny Dip
* Stoney Burke (born 1953, US)
* Louis de Bernières (born 1954, UK) – Latin America Trilogy: The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts, Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord, The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman
* Matt Groening (born 1954, US) – The Simpsons, Futurama
* George C. Wolfe (born 1954, US) – The Colored Museum
* Howard Stern (born 1954, US)
* Jaspal Bhatti (1955–2012, India)
* Cathy Jones (born 1955, Canada)
* Bill Maher (born 1956, US) – Real Time with Bill Maher
* Percival Everett (born 1956, US)
* Ziad Rahbani (زياد الرحباني, born 1956, Lebanon)
* David Sedaris (born 1956, US) – Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day
* Craig Brown (born 1957, UK)
* Scott Adams (born 1957, US) – Dilbert
* Stephen Fry (born 1957, England)
* Christopher Moore (born 1957, US)
* Victor Shenderovich (born 1958, Russia)
* Ebrahim Nabavi (سید ابراهیم نبوی, born 1958, Iran), winner of Prince Claus Award (2005)
* Bill Watterson (born 1958, US) – cartoonist, Calvin and Hobbes
* Jello Biafra (born 1958, US)
* George Saunders (born 1958, US) – author of CivilWarLand In Bad Decline, Tenth of December and Lincoln in the Bardo.
* Wayne Federman (born 1959, US)
* "Weird Al" Yankovic (born 1959, US)
* Hugh Laurie (born 1959, England)
* Jeffrey Morgan (living, Canada) – CREEM, Metro Times
* Denis Leary (born 1957, US)

## Contemporary satirists (born 1960–present)

In alphabetical order (many birth dates not known):
* Jacob M. Appel (US, born 1973) – playwright (Causa Mortis, Arborophilia)
* Michael "Atters" Attree (born 1965, UK)
* Max Barry (born 1973, Australia) – author
* Paul Beatty (born 1962, US) – (The White Boy Shuffle, The Sellout)
* Nigel Blackwell (living, UK) – Half Man Half Biscuit
* Jan Böhmermann (born 1981, Germany)
* Charlie Brooker (born 1971, UK) – Nathan Barley
* Bo Burnham (born 1990, US) – comedian and musician
* Dave Chappelle (born 1973, US) – stand-up comedian, Chappelle's Show
* David Cross (born 1964, US) – Mr. Show, Arrested Development
* Sacha Baron Cohen (born 1971) – Borat, Da Ali G Show
* Stephen Colbert (born 1964, US) – The Colbert Report, The Daily Show
* Sarah Cooper (born 1977, US) – blogger, vlogger, author, comedian
* Douglas Coupland (born 1961, Canada) – Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
* Scott Dikkers (born 1965, US) – comedy writer and speaker
* Bret Easton Ellis (born 1964, US) – screenwriter and director
* Ricky Gervais (born 1961, UK) – comedian, creator of The Office (British TV series)
* Sabina Guzzanti (born 1963, Italy) – satirist and writer
* Bill Hicks (1961–1994, US) – stand-up comedian
* Mishu Hilmy (living, US) – Good Morning Gitmo
* Ian Hislop (born 1960, UK) – Private Eye
* Jessica Holmes (born 1973, Canada) – comedian and actress
* Armando Iannucci (born 1963, UK) – Brass Eye, The Day Today
* Mike Judge (born 1962, US) – creator of Beavis and Butt-Head and King of the Hill
* Elnathan John (born 1982, Nigeria) — Be(com)ing Nigerian: A Guide
* Kennedy (born 1972, US) – radio personality and author
* Hari Kondabolu (born 1982, US) – stand-up comic and film-maker
* Erik Larsen (born 1962, US) – "Savage Dragon" comic book
* Craig Lauzon (living, Canada) – comedian and caricaturist
* Stewart Lee (born 1968, UK) – stand-up comedian and director
* Victor Lewis-Smith (living, UK) – TV Offal
* Chris Lilley (born 1974, Australia) – Summer Heights High, We Can Be Heroes: Finding The Australian of the Year
* Daniele Luttazzi (born 1961, Italy) – satirist and songwriter
* Maddox (born 1978, US) – website The Best Page in the Universe
* Seth MacFarlane (born 1973, US) – Family Guy
* Aaron McGruder (US) – The Boondocks (comic strip), The Boondocks (TV series)
* Rick Mercer (born 1969, Canada) – Rick Mercer Report
* Tim Minchin (born 1975, Australia) – comedian and musician
* Mark Morford (living, US) – Notes and Errata, San Francisco Chronicle, SF Gate
* Chris Morris (born 1965, UK) – Brass Eye, The Day Today
* Gregory Motton (born 1961, UK) – playwright and author
* The Moustache Brothers (Myanmar) – screwball comedy and dance
* Bob Odenkirk (born 1962, US) – Mr. Show, Saturday Night Live, The Larry Sanders Show
* John Oliver (born 1977, England) – Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
* Chuck Palahniuk (born 1962, US) – Fight Club and Choke
* Alan Park (born 1962, Canada) – comedian and satirist
* Trey Parker (born 1969, US) – South Park, Team America: World Police, The Book of Mormon
* Alexandra Petri (born 1988, US) – author and columnist
* Mark A. Rayner (living, Canada) – satirist and fiction writer
* Pablo Reyes Jr. (born 1989, US) – website The Daily Currant and Huzlers
* Celia Rivenbark (living, US) – columnist and author
* Joe Rogan (born 1967, US) – comedian and podcast pioneer
* Eric Schwartz (living, US) – folk singer and satirist
* Andrew Shaffer (living, US) – author
* Amy Sedaris (born 1961, US) – actress and comedian
* Sarah Silverman (born 1970, US) – stand-up comedian, The Sarah Silverman Program
* Martin Sonneborn (born 1965, Germany) – political jokester and satirist
* Jon Stewart (born 1962, US) – The Daily Show
* Matt Stone (born 1971, US) – South Park, The Book of Mormon
* Vermin Supreme (born 1961, US) – performance artist, comedian and political satirist
* Greg Thomey (born 1961, Canada) – comedian and playwright
* David Thorne (living, Australia) – humorist and satirist
* Andrew Unger, (living, Canada) – Mennonite satirist
* Jhonen Vasquez (born 1974, US) – Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, Squee
* Oliver Welke (born 1966, Germany) - heute-show
* Mark Whitney (born 1959, US) – satirist and comedian
* Howard X, (living, Hong Kong, Australia) – political satirist, musician, professional impersonator of Kim Jong-un
* Bassem Youssef (باسم رأفت محمد يوسف, born 1974, Egypt) – comedian
* Rucka Rucka Ali (born 1987, Israel) – political satirist, song parody maker
* Dr. Suresh Kumar Mishra 'Uratript' (born 1981, India) – humorist and satirist.

## 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

* Astérix (French comic strip, satirizing both the Roman Empire era as well as 20th century life)
* Benchley (US comic strip created by Mort Drucker and Jerry Dumas, satirizing Ronald Reagan and American culture)
* Bone (US comic strip)
* The Boondocks (US comic strip, satirizing African-American culture)
* Le Canard enchaîné (weekly French satirical newspaper)
* Charlie Hebdo (weekly French satirical paper)
* The Chaser (Australian newspaper and TV shows)
* Cho Ramaswamy (Thuglak – Tamil magazine)
* Craposyncrasies (Persian book)
* Dilbert (US comic strip)
* The Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge comics by Carl Barks
* Doonesbury (US comic strip)
* The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers (US comic strip)
* Faux Faulkner contest (annually published in Hemispheres magazine until 2005)
* Fritz the Cat by Robert Crumb
* Humor Times (monthly US magazine)
* Idées noires (Belgian comic strip)
* Li'l Abner (US comic strip)
* Life in Hell (US comic strip)
* Mad (satirical comic book and magazine)
* The Medium (weekly newspaper printed by students of Rutgers University)
* Mr. Natural by Robert Crumb
* Nero (Belgian comic strip)
* The New Yorker (Shouts and Murmurs)
* The Onion (US magazine)
* Peanuts (US comic strip)
* Pogo (US comic strip)
* Private Eye (UK magazine)
* The Inconsequential (UK magazine)
* The Second Supper (US magazine)
* The Tart (Fortnightly UK newspaper)
* The Adventures of Tintin (Belgian comic strip)
* Titanic (German magazine)
* Tom Puss (Dutch comic strip)
* Watchmen (American comic book series)

### Television and radio

* The Simpsons and Futurama (Matt Groening)
* Howard Stern (radio personality "The Howard Stern Show")
* The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (US Talk Show)
* The Colbert Report (US Talk Show)
* The Day Today (UK TV news parody by Chris Morris)
* Brass Eye (UK current affairs TV-show parody by Chris Morris)
* On the Hour (UK news radio parody by Chris Morris)
* TV Offal (UK TV critique show by Victor Lewis-Smith)
* This Hour Has 22 Minutes (Canadian TV show)
* South Park (Trey Parker and Matt Stone)
* The Chaser (Australian newspaper and TV shows)
* Facelift (New Zealand Political show)
* Spitting Image (UK TV show famous for its puppets of celebrities)
* Yes Minister (also "Yes, Prime Minister" – UK TV show satirising government)
* Kukly (Dolls, 1994–2002) – Russian satirical puppet show
* Fitil (Fuse) – Soviet television satirical/comedy short film series
* Nip/Tuck (Ryan Murphy)
* Have I Got News For You – Long running UK TV panel show
* Nathan Barley – 2005 UK TV satire by Chris Morris and Charlie Brooker.
* The Chaser's War on Everything – Australian satire with an emphasis on attacking 'everyone'.
* Seinfeld (Jerry Seinfeld)
* Royal Canadian Air Farce (1993–2007) (Don Ferguson, Roger Abbott, Luba Goy)
* Air Farce Live (2007–present) (Don Ferguson, Roger Abbott, Luba Goy)
* Monty Python's Flying Circus
* Phil Hendrie (radio personality "The Phil Hendrie Show")
* Mock the Week – UK TV comedy panel show
* The Larry Sanders Show – (Garry Shandling)
* 30 Rock – (Tina Fey)
* Glenn Martin, DDS – A Nick@Nite show
* Episodes – David Crane
* Better Off Ted – (Victor Fresco)
* Onion News Network
* The Boondocks – (Aaron McGruder)
* heute-show (German TV series)
* Servant of the People (2015 TV series) — Ukrainian political satire comedy TV series starring Volodymyr Zelensky
* The Amazing World of Gumball – Ben Bocquelet
* Family Guy – (Seth MacFarlane)
* On Cinema at the Cinema – (Tim Heidecke), Gregg Turkington)
* The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air – (Andy Borowitz and Susan Borowitz)

### Music

* The Cover of "Rolling Stone" a satirical lament by Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show.
* "White America" is a satirical song by Eminem It is about his impact in rap and the impact of rap in the white communities.
* "Mercedes Benz" is a McClure-Joplin song sung by Janis Joplin
* Culturcide's album Tacky Souvenirs of Pre-Revolutionary America overdubbed new, satirical lyrics onto such pop hits as "We Are the World".
* Vaporwave, a satirical music genre with anarcho-capitalist and cyberpunk overtones dedicated to (anti-)consumerism.
* Mark Russell is an American political satirist known for his many appearances on PBS
* Peter Gabriel's song The Barry Williams Show satirizes talk shows which showcase domestic topics of a taboo or shocking nature (and the viewing public's fascination with such content).
* Chumbawamba have consistently used satire to make political points throughout their musical career.
* Pink Floyd's albums Animals and The Dark Side of the Moon are conceptual and satirical albums.
* The Lonely Island is a satirical music group known for their work on Saturday Night Live.
* Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone's Tony-sweeping Broadway show The Book of Mormon (musical) satirizes the applicability of first-world religion to third-world problems.
* The Dead Milkmen is a satirical punk rock/cowpunk band from the early 1980s.
* Ben Folds, a rock pianist, and his group, Ben Folds Five, have multiple songs including satirical elements. Some of them being, "Underground", "Sports and Wine", and "Rock Star".
* Dead Kennedys, an American punk band, often used satire in their songs, most notably Kill the Poor.
* Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention's We're Only in It for the Money, a satire of flower power and conservative America.

### Film

* Blazing Saddles, a 1974 comedy movie directed by Mel Brooks, satirizing racism
* Casino Royale, a 1967 surrealistic satire on the James Bond series and the entire spy genre.
* Get Out
* This Is Spinal Tap, a satire on heavy metal culture and "rockumentaries"
* The Very Same Munchhausen, a 1979 satire of the late Soviet society
* Clueless
* American Beauty, a 1999 satire of life in the suburbs
* Thank You for Smoking
* Team America: World Police is a 2004 film satirizing Hollywood action flicks as well as post-9/11 American foreign policy.
* Wag the Dog
* The Rules of Attraction
* Best in Show
* I Heart Huckabees
* Starship Troopers
* Scary Movie
* Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal: The Movie
* Dr. Strangelove
* Planet of the Apes
* South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, a film satirizing censorship
* Network
* Otaku no Video, a 1993 anime satirizing the otaku subculture
* Adaptation.
* Brazil
* S.O.B., a satire on Hollywood.
* Election
* Not Another Teen Movie, a satire of the teen film genre
* Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
* Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
* Citizen Ruth
* The Hospital
* Weapons of Mass Distraction
* Little Children
* Bulworth
* Man Bites Dog
* The Simpsons Movie
* Smile, a satire of beauty pageants and small-town life
* Bob Roberts
* War, Inc.
* Britannia Hospital
* Fight Club, a dark satire on consumerism, cults, and extremism
* American Psycho
* Tropic Thunder
* Simon, satirical commentary on the effects of mass media in pop culture
* American History X satirizes race/racism in a contemporary setting
* They Live
* Land of the Dead, a satire of post-9/11 America state and of the Bush administration
* The Wicker Man, a satire on cults and religion
* The Great Dictator, a satire on Adolf Hitler
* Monty Python's Life of Brian, a satire on miscommunication, religion and Christianity
* The Player, a satire of Hollywood, directed by Robert Altman
* In the Loop, a satire of the 2003 invasion of Iraq
* Elvis Gratton, a French Canadian/Québécois series depicting a satirical federalist
* Fubar
* The Man Who Knew Too Little

### Video games

* Fallout
* Fallout 2
* Fallout 3
* Fallout: New Vegas
* Fallout 4
* Dead Rising (デッドライジング, Deddo Raijingu), a satire on US consumer culture
* Dead Rising 2: Off the Record (デッドライジング2 オフ・ザ・レコード, Deddo Raijingu 2: Ofu za rekōdo), a satire on US consumer culture
* Grand Theft Auto
* Crash: Mind over Mutant

### Internet

* Adequacy.org
* The Babylon Bee (Christian satire)
* BBspot
* The Best Page In The Universe
* BuyTigers.com
* Coconut Kelz (South African satirical video blogger)
* The Daily Mash (U.K. satirical news website)
* The Daily Bonnet (Mennonite satire website)
* Faking News (Indian news satire website)
* The Hard Times
* Huzlers
* Landover Baptist Church (US website satirizing Fundamentalist Christians)
* Latma
* McSweeney's Internet Tendency
* The Montgonion
* National Report
* Jeremy Nell (South African cartoonist)
* NewsBiscuit
* The Onion
* Pat Condell
* Reductress
* ScrappleFace
* The Second Supper
* The UnReal Times (Indian news satire website)
* Uncyclopedia (satirical parody of Wikipedia)
* Vote for the Worst