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The Daily Mash
''The Daily Mash'' is a left wing British satirical website providing parody, parodic commentary on current affairs (news format), current affairs and other News satire, news stories. Neil Rafferty (a former political correspondent for ''The Sunday Times'') and Paul Stokes (former business editor of ''The Scotsman''), created the website in 2007 and remain the lead writers. Both writers earn salaries from the enterprise and also employ freelance contributors. The publication has garnered praise for its Surreal humour, absurd, Toilet humour, scatological humour and insightful political satire. The current editor is comedy writer and former BBC journalist Tim Telling. The Daily Mash has often been compared to the US publication ''The Onion''. History ''The Daily Mash'' was launched in April 2007 by journalists Paul Stokes and Neil Rafferty. Stokes is a former business editor of ''The Scotsman'' and has also written for ''Scotland on Sunday'' and ''Daily Record (Scotland), The Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satire
Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of shaming or exposing the perceived flaws of individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement. Although satire is usually meant to be humorous, its greater purpose is often constructive social criticism, using wit to draw attention to both particular and wider issues in society. A feature of satire is strong irony or sarcasm —"in satire, irony is militant", according to literary critic Northrop Frye— but parody, burlesque, exaggeration, juxtaposition, comparison, analogy, and double entendre are all frequently used in satirical speech and writing. This "militant" irony or sarcasm often professes to approve of (or at least accept as natural) the very things the satirist wishes to question. Satire is found in many a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
