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Posts by Talk About Satire

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🚨NEW EPISODE 🚨

Our listerners asked, we have delivered...

If you're into licking walls and seductive egg play, this one is for you:
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#wutheringheights #19thC #19C #18thC

1 month ago 0 1 0 1
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Huge thanks to everyone who came to see Jo & I talking about the history of the "Satirical Voyage" at the York Literature Festival, we couldn't have hoped for a more lively and engaged audience 💖

#18thC #19thC #Skystorians

1 month ago 6 1 0 0
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Jo & Adam explore the satirical history of Zombies, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple & tease their upcoming coverage of Wuthering Heights:

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1 month ago 1 0 0 1
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Is The Housemaid satire?
What do The Traitors memes tell us?
How did the internet handle Stranger Things?

Also featuring Toast Man, buttered-toast confidence & Adam vs "cutlery" 🍞

Listen:
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#StrangerThings #TheTraitors #thehousemaid

2 months ago 0 1 0 0
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Satiric Modernism Published in Comedy Studies (Ahead of Print, 2026)

In disassociating satire from comedy... Rulo has demonstrated satire’s transhistorical ubiquity when understood as a deconstructivediscourse, rather than a comic device

My review of Kevin Rulo's Satiric Modernism is out now:
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/NIDWK...

#ComedyStudies #Modernism #Satire

3 months ago 2 1 1 0

Thanks to Adam and Jo and the T-man🤨 for the best breakfast-description-focussed😂 podcast about Satire on the internets.

4 months ago 1 1 0 0

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Toast Man how we've missed you

4 months ago 0 0 0 0

Toast Man is back.

4 months ago 2 1 1 0
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Permission to start feeling Christmasy, our festive special is here...

Jo & Adam bring you The Grinch Who Stole Satire, Plur1bus, Wake Up Dead Man, Alan Partridge, Christmas cheer, and the return of fan-fave, Toast Man.

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@elementaladam.bsky.social

4 months ago 1 0 0 3
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The best satire is totally believable.
@talkaboutsatire.bsky.social
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4 months ago 3 1 0 0
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Join us for an episode filled with spectacular spats, bruised egos & top-tier shade as we explore the art of literary feuding:

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#18c #19c #JaneAusten #CharlotteBronte #Podcast #Satire

4 months ago 4 0 0 2

We so much enjoyed talking to Leigh about this delightful novel, the state of satiric literacy, what BookTok is doing to the publishing industry & the ways we read & the best way to celebrate Halloween 👻

#halloween #books #authorinterview #satire

5 months ago 3 1 0 0
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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨

Acclaimed novelist Leigh Stein returns to talk to Jo & Adam
(@elementaladam.bsky.social) about her new novel, IF YOU'RE SEEING THIS IT'S MEANT FOR YOU, a satirical Gothic novel set inside a TikTok Hype house.

Listen: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

#Halloween #satire #gothic

5 months ago 2 0 0 1

Oh hello!! Thank you! 🙏🏻

5 months ago 0 0 0 0
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EP79. Smith & Waugh Are Not Helping: Sketchy Sketch Show Satire

Jo & Adam take a deep dive into the world of sketch show satire & consider the role of satire in America right now:

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#SouthPark #CharlieKirk #MitchellandWebb #Comedy #Satire

6 months ago 1 0 1 0
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EP78. Cartoon Comebacks: Animated Satire from #kingofthehillreboot to #SouthPark

Jo & Adam (@elementaladam.bsky.social) take a look at the ways American adult animated comedy is satirising Donald Trump's administration:

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7 months ago 3 2 0 0
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NEW EPISODE🚨

Jo & Adam (@elementaladam.bsky.social) are having a "dilly dally" summer (the new brat, apparently), talking about new Partridge, new South Park, new Squid Games & 28 Years Later to see if they are satire...

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#satire #podcasts #comedystudies

8 months ago 4 0 0 1
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EP76. Charlotte Brontë Is In YOU

Could You be Satire?

Jo & Adam investigate the strange Netflix show about putting women in cages & quoting literature at them, before exploring Brontë's own use of satire.

Listen:

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#19C #Bronte

9 months ago 2 1 0 0
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BBC report into value of UK comedy industry calls for urgent action from both industry and the Government to protect jewel in the UK’s cultural crown Landmark report reveals British comedy generates substantial cultural and economic returns

Read the recent BBC report on comedy as a premium British export that demands further investment:

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10 months ago 0 0 0 0
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Screen encounters with Britain. What do young Europeans make of Britain and its digital screen culture? FINAL REPORT

Read more about the vast project undertaken by
@matthewhilborn.bsky.social & Professors Jeanette Steemers & Andrea Esser on Screen Encounters with Britain around Europe:

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10 months ago 1 0 1 0
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EP75. Brit Comedy Abroad & Satire in Song

Jo & Adam (@elementaladam.bsky.social) explore the reception of British comedy around the world & consider the role of satire in contemporary music.

Listen now:
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#ComedyStudies #TalkAboutSatire

10 months ago 1 0 1 1
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PSA: My article on satire & cannibalism after Swift is currently available open access in the European Journal for Humour Research:

europeanjournalofhumour.org/ejhr/issue/v...

It's part of an amazing special issue ed. by Anne-Sophie Bories & Nils Couturier

#18c #18thC @talkaboutsatire.bsky.social

10 months ago 5 4 0 0
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Adam was sharing the last news from the York Research Unit for the Study of Satire at the @yorkstjohn.bsky.social Research Centre summit today.

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#comedystudies #satire #talkaboutsatire

10 months ago 3 1 0 0
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EP74. Satire is Risen: Eggxtra Special Easter Eggstravaganza

Jo & Adam (@elementaladam.bsky.social) cast their eggspert eyes over #BlackMirror, #TheStudio, new Joan & Jericha & satirical reactions to JDV's final meeting with the Pope:

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11 months ago 2 0 0 1

Featuring a discussion of the timeless & excellent Buddha of Suburbia, and a poem about a heroic dog called Dash published in a Sheffield newspaper in 1796.

1 year ago 2 1 0 0
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EP73. Satire in Suburbia (& in Amandaland)

Jo & Adam ask why so much satire is set in Suburbia. Featuring #Amandaland #DavidLynch #Pulp & much more... (also, #Mickey17)

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#satire #comedystudies #talkaboutsatire

1 year ago 1 0 0 1
1 year ago 1 0 0 0
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EP.72. "Nightbitch, please": Musk, Motherhood, Modernism & Satire

Jo & Adam dissect the film #Nightbitch, Kevin Rulo's SATIRIC MODERNISM & the satirical responses to Elon's... "wave"?

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#ComedyStudies #Satire #ElonMusk #Motherhood #Modernism

1 year ago 1 0 0 2

We covered *a lot* in this one, including Prof Paul Simpson’s concept of satire as an echoic discourse, which helps us disambiguate between satirical & non-satirical parody.

Plus, Samuel Johnson, Charlotte Brontë & Nosferatu.

#18C #19C #ComedyStudies #Nosferatu #TheTraitors

1 year ago 8 1 0 0
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EP.71. Traitors, Haters & Vampire-Maters with Satire & Potatoes

Jo & Adam (@elementaladam.bsky.social) determine whether or not #Nosferatu is satire & discuss satirical hating in the works of Samuel Johnson & Charlotte Brontë:

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1 year ago 1 0 0 1