“The London-based comic created his life coach alter-ego to satirise the world of self-help and corporate jargon.”

“But you cannot satirise a hack, if you have no friend to nudge while you do it.”

“As games mature, more are going to try to explore the issues GTAV attempts to satirise, sensationalise and make ridiculous.”

“Since this is a presidential election year, they will have an abundance of candidates to satirize, ensuring an evening of delicious fun.”

“They knew that their society needed to progress, and just to satirize it all the time wasn't going to do that.”

“The more directly Andersen's tales draw on his own emotional vulnerabilities or satirize his contemporaries, the more powerful they are.”

“This acid comedy satirizes the romantic travails of artsy twenty-somethings.”

“She teases, criticizes and satirizes American democracy, but she cares so much it's positively palpable.”

“The poem satirizes merrily enough, being windy and rhapsodic, prostrate and profligate, swoony and bitter, and attacks various people.”

“The film gently satirises the Establishment, in the shape of Holland's unperceptive employers at the Bank, the media, and the police.”

“It toys with high-spirited farce but also vigorously satirises the way marriage is viewed entirely as monetary arrangement.”

“Noel Coward's script gleefully satirises the pomposity of the art world, merging arty in-jokes with the kind of brittle drawing-room comedy that Coward is so renowned for.”

“The entire enterprise was mercilessly and hilariously satirized in her novel.”

“Able only to mumble coded secrets, poets often seem the village idiots so wickedly satirized by Woody Allen's Love and Death.”

“He was thoroughly entertained by a grotesque comedy that satirized a group of celebrities.”

“I suspect this remake, now satirising post-feminist America and suburban life itself, may raise more laughs here than on its home turf.”

“On the topic of hipsterism, what a salve to my fury it is to read that someone is satirising hipster dufuses.”

“Fatally, however, they crossed over from satirising commentators to criticising player behaviour.”

“After several years of worrying about how to respond to the war, the motion picture industry even generated a movie satirizing its own anxiety.”

“The play tears a strip off beauty pageants, satirizing their supermodel-thin take on what qualifies as beauty.”

“He was taken by the idea of lampooning the soaps, but was ultimately more interested in satirizing our celebrity-obsessed culture.”