satirist

As beginnings go, the filmmaker offers up a hilarious theme-setting blind date that even a premier satirist like George Saunders would envy.

“He’s worked as a satirist; he’s written parodies, political thrillers; he’s moved from a fairly earnest modern style to a very lucid, clear style.”

Sir Terry Pratchett must be considered to be a superb satirist, a brilliant, imaginative writer.

Lyrically, too, “I Love L.A.” embodies Newman’s instincts as one of pop’s great cultural satirists.

One of the most widely read satirists in America, Feiffer died Friday of congestive heart failure, his wife, author JZ Holden, told the Washington Post and New York Times on Tuesday.