[ noun ] a humorist who uses ridicule and irony and sarcasm <noun.person>
Satirist \Sat"ir*ist\, n. [Cf. F. satiriste.] One who satirizes; especially, one who writes satire.
The mighty satirist, who . . . had spread terror through the Whig ranks. --Macaulay.
"We take the news, then twist and torture it," Jean Amadou, a well-known satirist and one of the show's creators, said in an interview.
He is a masterful social satirist, to be sure: "The official Commission on Child Care, known to be a pet concern of the prime minister's, had spawned fourteen subcommittees whose task was to make recommendations to the parent body.
Orr is in fact hardly a satirist at all, so genial and affectionate is his view of man's foibles and preoccupations, whether carnal or spiritual.
But Boston television satirist Dick Flavin, who has been poking fun at the governor for 15 years, insists that there's plenty of material to work with in the governor's frugal ways.
Thought for Today: "We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another." _ Jonathan Swift, English satirist, author, clergyman (1667-1745).
Thought for today: "Men always hate most what they envy most." _ H.L. Mencken, American journalist and satirist (1880-1956).
TOES summiteers were entertained by Himalayan bell music and a political satirist.
Papandreou's heart operation in London last September inspired the title of a sellout revue, "Post-Aorta Greece," written and directed by Lakis Lazopoulos, Greece's top satirist.
Thought for today: "If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your mirror." _ Francois Rabelais, French satirist (1494-1553).