Pietro Aretino (US: /ˌɑːrɪˈtiːnoʊ, ˌær-/, Italian:[ˈpjɛːtro areˈtiːno]; 19 or 20 April 1492 – 21 October 1556) was an Italian author,…
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Joyce Irene Grenfell OBE (née Phipps; 10 February 1910 – 30 November 1979) was an English comedian, singer, actress, monologist,…
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Read More »Thomas Andrew Lehrer (/ˈlɛərər/; born April 9, 1928) is a retired American musician, singer-songwriter, satirist, and mathematician. He has lectured…
Read More »Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs,…
Read More »Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge (24 March 1903 – 14 November 1990) was an English journalist and satirist. His father was a…
Read More »William Jacob “Will” Cuppy (August 23, 1884 – September 19, 1949) was an American humorist and literary critic, known for…
Read More »Alfred Gerald Caplin (September 28, 1909– November 5, 1979), better known as Al Capp, was an American cartoonist and humorist…
Read More »Thomas Nashe (baptised November 1567 – c. 1601) [also Nash] was an Elizabethan playwright, poet, satirist and a significant pamphleteer.…
Read More »John Barry Humphries AO CBE (born 17 February 1934) is an Australian comedian, actor, satirist, artist, and author. He is…
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