List of satirists and satires

Early satirical authors

• Aesop – Aesop's Fables
• Diogenes
• Aristophanes – The Frogs, The Birds, and The Clouds
• Gaius Lucilius
• Horace – Satires
• Ovid – The Art of Love
• Seneca the Younger – Apocolocyntosis
• Persius
• Petronius – Satyricon
• Juvenal – Satires
• Lucian
• Apuleius – The Golden Ass
• Various authors – One Thousand and One Nights, أَلْفُ لَيْلَةٍ وَلَيْلَةٌ‎

  Medieval, early modern and 18th-century satirists

• Godfrey of Winchester
• Ubayd Zakani – Akhlaq al-Ashraf
• Giovanni Boccaccio – The Decameron
• James Bramston – satirical poet
• Geoffrey Chaucer – The Canterbury Tales
• Gil Vicente
• Erasmus – The Praise of Folly
• François Rabelais – Gargantua and Pantagruel
• Various authors – Talking statues of Rome
• Miguel de Cervantes – Don Quixote
• Luis de Góngora
• William Shakespeare – Sonnet 130
• Francisco de Quevedo
• Juan de Tassis, 2nd Count of Villamediana
• Martin Marprelate – Marprelate tracts
• Samuel Butler – Hudibras
• Molière – Le Malade imaginaire
• Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
• John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
• Jonathan Swift – Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Tale of a Tub
• John Gay – The Beggar's Opera
• Alexander Pope
• Voltaire – Candide
• James Bramston
• William Hogarth – Beer Street and Gin Lane
• Henry Fielding
• Laurence Sterne – The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
• James Beresford – The Miseries of Human Life
• Ivan Krylov
• Jane Austen –
• Thomas Love Peacock – Nightmare Abbey, Crochet Castle
• Eaton Stannard Barrett – The Heroine
• Charles Etienne Boniface – De Nieuwe Ridderorde of De Temperantisten
• Giuseppe Gioachino Belli –

  Modern satirists (born 1800–1900)

• Evan Bevan – satirical poetry in Welsh
• Nikolai Gogol – The Government Inspector, Dead Souls
• Edgar Allan Poe – The Man That Was Used Up, A Predicament, Never Bet the Devil Your Head
• William Makepeace Thackeray – Vanity Fair
• Charles Dickens – Hard Times, A Tale of Two Cities
• James Russell Lowell – A Fable for Critics
• George Derby, also known as John P. Squibob and John Phoenix
• Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
• Lewis Carroll – Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass
• Samuel Butler – Erewhon
• Mark Twain – Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
• W. S. Gilbert
• Narushima Ryūhoku
• Thomas Nast
• Ambrose Bierce – The Devil's Dictionary
• Anatole France
• José Maria de Eça de Queirós
• Oscar Wilde – The Importance of Being Earnest
• George Bernard Shaw
• Jerome K. Jerome – Three Men in a Boat, Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
• Anton Chekhov – The Lady with the Dog
• O. Henry short story writer known for surprise endings, namesake of the O. Henry Award
• Jalil Mammadguluzadeh
• Lakshminath Bezbaroa
• Saki, also known as H. H. Munro
• Trilussa
• Alfred Jarry – Ubu Roi
• Radoje Domanović
• Iraj Mirza
• Karl Kraus
• Will Rogers
• James Branch Cabell
• Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda
• H. L. Mencken – cultural critic and author
• Arkady Averchenko
• P. G. Wodehouse
• Wyndham Lewis
• Jaroslav Hašek – The Good Soldier Švejk
• Oscar Cesare
• Charlie Chaplin – Modern Times, The Great Dictator, Monsieur Verdoux
• Kurt Tucholsky
• Mikhail Bulgakov – Heart of a Dog, The Master and Margarita
• Dorothy Parker satirical writer of humorous short stories, poetry and book reviews
• Vladimir Mayakovsky
• Aldous Huxley – Point Counter Point, Brave New World
• James Thurber – "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"
• Mikhail Zoshchenko
• Josep Pla
• Ilf and Petrov: Ilya Ilf and Yevgeni Petrov – The Twelve Chairs, The Little Golden Calf
• Yury Olesha – Three Fat Men, Envy

  Modern satirists (born 1900–1930)

• Stella Gibbons – author of comic novel Cold Comfort Farm
• Evelyn Waugh – Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Scoop
• George Orwell – Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four
• Malcolm Muggeridge
• Dr. Seuss – The Lorax, The Butter Battle Book
• Kurt Kusenberg
• Daniil Kharms
• H. F. Ellis – The Papers of A. J. Wentworth, B.A., 1949
• Jean Effel – cartoonist, author of the cartoon cycle The Creation of the World
• Al Capp
• Arkady Raikin – stand-up comedian
• Aubrey Menen – satirist, novelist and philosopher
• Walt Kelly
• Anthony Burgess – A Clockwork Orange
• Warrington Colescott
• Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse-Five, Breakfast of Champions, Cat's Cradle
• Lenny Bruce – stand-up comedian
• Joseph Heller – Catch-22
• Terry Southern – The Magic Christian, Dr. Strangelove
• Günter Grass – The Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse
• Stanley Kubrick – Dr. Strangelove
• Harvey Kurtzman
• Tom Lehrer – That Was the Year That Was
• Jules Feiffer – satirical cartoonist who wrote the original play and screenplay for Little Murders
• Ray Bradbury
• William S. Burroughs – Naked Lunch
• Dario Fo
• Flannery O'Connor
• C. Northcote Parkinson
• Anna Russell
• Gore Vidal – Myra Breckinridge
• Mel Brooks – The Producers, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein
• Erma Bombeck
• Allan Sherman – musician, parodist, television producer, voice actor
• Stan Freberg – musician, parodist, voice actor
• Brian O'Nolan – At Swim-Two-Birds
• Ephraim Kishon
• Jerry Lewis – comedian, screenwriter, director

  Contemporary satirists (born 1930–1960)

• Mordecai Richler
• Tom Wolfe – The Bonfire of the Vanities
• Vladimir Voinovich – The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, Moscow 2042
• Robert Anton Wilson – The Illuminatus! Trilogy
• Barry Humphries – My Gorgeous Life, The Life and Death of Sandy Stone, stage shows
• Jonathan Miller
• Alan Bennett
• Mykhailo Zhvanetskyi
• Dudley Moore
• David Lodge – author of "Campus Trilogy"
• Woody Allen
• Thomas Pynchon – V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow
• Richard Ingrams
• John Kennedy O'Toole
• George Carlin – stand-up comedian
• Peter Cook – of the Satire boom, Beyond the Fringe
• Eleanor Bron
• David Frost
• Grigori Gorin
• Frank Zappa – We're Only in It for the Money, Cruising with Ruben and the Jets
• Sergei Dovlatov
• Kioumars Saberi Foumani
• Neil Innes – former Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band founder and member of The Rutles. Writer of satirical songs and books
• Gennady Khazanov – stand-up comedian
• Luba Goy
• Roger Abbott – sketch comedian.
• Lewis Grizzard
• Sue Townsend – Adrian Mole
• Don Ferguson
• Jonathan Meades – writer, broadcaster and satirist
• Terry Pratchett – humorist and fantasy novelist
• Lewis Black – stand-up comic, The Daily Show
• Terry Pratchett – The Discworld book series
• Mikhail Zadornov
• Garry Trudeau
• Jaafar Abbas
• Christopher Guest – This Is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman
• Georg Schramm – Scheibenwischer, Neues aus der Anstalt, kabarett artist
• Gary Larson – cartoonist
• Fran Lebowitz – The Fran Lebowitz Reader, Public Speaking – NYC public intellectual
• Bailey White
• Steve Bell
• Bill Bryson
• Al Franken
• Douglas Adams – The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• Mary Walsh
• Phil Hendrie – radio host of The Phil Hendrie Show
• Robert Zubrin
• Christopher Buckley – Thank You for Smoking, The White House Mess
• Carl Hiaasen – Tourist Season, Double Whammy, Basket Case, Skinny Dip
• Stoney Burke
• Louis de Bernières – 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 – The Simpsons, Futurama
• George C. Wolfe – The Colored Museum
• Howard Stern
• Jaspal Bhatti
• Cathy Jones
• Bill Maher – Real Time with Bill Maher
• Percival Everett
• Ziad Rahbani
• David Sedaris – Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day
• Craig Brown
• Scott Adams – Dilbert
• Stephen Fry
• Christopher Moore
• Victor Shenderovich
• Ebrahim Nabavi, winner of Prince Claus Award
• Bill Watterson – cartoonist, Calvin and Hobbes
• Jello Biafra
• George Saunders – author of CivilWarLand In Bad Decline, and Lincoln in the Bardo.
• Wayne Federman
• "Weird Al" Yankovic
• Hugh Laurie
• Jeffrey Morgan – CREEM, Metro Times

  Contemporary satirists (born 1960–present)

• Jacob M. Appel – playwright
• Michael "Atters" Attree
• Max Barry – author
• Paul Beatty –
• Nigel Blackwell – Half Man Half Biscuit
• Jan Böhmermann
• Charlie Brooker – Nathan Barley
• Bo Burnham – comedian and musician
• Dave Chappelle – stand-up comedian, Chappelle's Show
• David Cross – Mr. Show, Arrested Development
• Sacha Baron Cohen – Borat, Da Ali G Show
• Stephen Colbert – The Colbert Report, The Daily Show
• Douglas Coupland – '
• Johnny Corn – stand-up comedian
• Scott Dikkers – comedy writer and speaker
• Bret Easton Ellis – screenwriter and director
• Ricky Gervais – comedian, creator of The Office
• Sabina Guzzanti – satirist and writer
• Bill Hicks – stand-up comedian
• Mishu Hilmy – Good Morning Gitmo
• Ian Hislop – Private Eye
• Jessica Holmes – comedian and actress
• Armando Iannucci – Brass Eye, The Day Today
• Mike Judge – creator of Beavis and Butt-Head and King of the Hill
• Kennedy – radio personality and author
• Hari Kondabolu – stand-up comic and film-maker
• Erik Larsen – "Savage Dragon" comic book
• Craig Lauzon – comedian and caricaturist
• Stewart Lee – stand-up comedian and director
• Victor Lewis-Smith – TV Offal
• Ash Lieb – artist, author and comedian
• Chris Lilley – Summer Heights High,
• Daniele Luttazzi – satirist and songwriter
• Maddox – website The Best Page in the Universe
• Seth MacFarlane – Family Guy
• Aaron McGruder – The Boondocks , The Boondocks
• Rick Mercer – Rick Mercer Report
• Tim Minchin – comedian and musician
• Mark Morford – Notes and Errata, San Francisco Chronicle, SF Gate
• Chris Morris – Brass Eye, The Day Today
• Gregory Motton – playwright and author
• The Moustache Brothers – screwball comedy and dance
• Bob Odenkirk – Mr. Show, Saturday Night Live, The Larry Sanders Show
• John Oliver – Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
• Chuck Palahniuk – Fight Club and Choke
• Alan Park – comedian and satirist
• Trey Parker – South Park, ', The Book of Mormon
• Mark A. Rayner – satirist and fiction writer
• Pablo Reyes Jr – website The Daily Currant and Huzlers
• Celia Rivenbark – columnist and author
• Eric Schwartz – folk singer and satirist
• Andrew Shaffer – author
• Amy Sedaris – actress and comedian
• Sarah Silverman – stand-up comedian, The Sarah Silverman Program
• Martin Sonneborn – political jokester and satirist
• Jon Stewart – The Daily Show
• Matt Stone – South Park, The Book of Mormon
• Vermin Supreme – performance artist, comedian and political satirist
• Greg Thomey – comedian and playwright
• David Thorne – humorist and satirist
• Andrew Unger, – Mennonite satirist
• Jhonen Vasquez – Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, Squee''
• Mark Whitney – satirist and comedian
• Bassem Youssef – Egyptian comedian

  Notable satires in contemporary popular culture

Print

• Astérix
• Benchley
• Bone
• The Boondocks
• Le Canard enchaîné
• Charlie Hebdo
• The Chaser
• Cho Ramaswamy
• Dilbert
• The Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge comics by Carl Barks
• Doonesbury
• The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers
• Faux Faulkner contest
• Fritz the Cat by Robert Crumb
• Humor Times
• Idées noires
• Li'l Abner
• Life in Hell
• Mad
• The Medium
• Mr. Natural by Robert Crumb
• Nero
• The New Yorker
• The Onion
• Peanuts
• Pogo
• Private Eye
• The Inconsequential
• The Second Supper
• The Tart
• The Adventures of Tintin
• Titanic
• Tom Puss
• Watchmen

  Television and radio

• The Simpsons and Futurama
• Howard Stern
• The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
• The Colbert Report
• The Day Today
• Brass Eye
• On the Hour
• TV Offal
• This Hour Has 22 Minutes
• South Park
• The Chaser
• Facelift
• Spitting Image
• Yes Minister
• Kukly – Russian satirical puppet show
• Fitil – Soviet television satirical/comedy short film series
• Nip/Tuck
• 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
• Royal Canadian Air Farce
• Air Farce Live
• Monty Python's Flying Circus
• Phil Hendrie
• Mock the Week – UK TV comedy panel show
• The Larry Sanders Show –
• 30 Rock –
• Glenn Martin, DDS – A Nick@Nite show
• Episodes – David Crane
• Better Off Ted –
• Onion News Network
• The Boondocks –
• heute-show
• The Amazing World of Gumball – Ben Bocquelet
• Family Guy –
• On Cinema at the Cinema –
• The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air –

  Music

• "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 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.
• 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 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.

  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
• ' 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
• '
• Dr. Strangelove
• Planet of the Apes A 1968 film portraying a future version of Earth controlled by gorillas, orangutans, and chimpanzees in which humans are mute beasts; the ruling gorillas and orangutans reject evolutionary theory and the ability of the humans to think because they don't speak.
• , 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 4
• ', a satire on US consumer culture.
• Grand Theft Auto

• Internet

• Adequacy.org
• The Babylon Bee
• BBspot
• The Best Page In The Universe
• Coconut Kelz
• The Daily Mash
• The Daily Bonnet
• Faking News
• The Hard Times
• Huzlers
• Landover Baptist Church
• Latma
• McSweeney's Internet Tendency
• National Report
• Jeremy Nell
• NewsBiscuit
• The Onion
• Pat Condell
• Reductress
• ScrappleFace
• The Second Supper
• The UnReal Times
• Uncyclopedia
• Vote for the Worst