Satire Comedy

The Roman poet Juvenal was the greatest satirist of Imperial Rome. His 16 satires encompass attacks on the immorality, abuses and hypocrisy of the Romans of his day. The last of the great Roman poets, he wrote between CE 110 and 130, his approach to satire coming close to modern expectations of the genre.

Ominous signs portend great danger, and Regina Y-Z, a psychic, fears the worst. Furthermore, the warning signs all point to her former best-friend, Celeste Bonneville. According to the Aeon religion, Y2K will bring about the End of Days. Celeste, a leader of the Central Ohio Conclave of the Church of Aeonism, looks forward to her future life in a digital paradise, called Singularity. The most holy Master Desiderata has chosen Celeste for a special mission. If the apocalypse doesn’t happen on its own, she has instructions for how to light the fuse to get it started.

Una breve ed esilarante parodia del libro "Cuore" di Edmondo De Amicis.

An underpaid, overworked certified flight instructor cheats death while attempting to teach a cast of incompetent student pilots to fly at a skeezy South Florida flight school; all in the quest to build flight time so he can get a “real job” at an airline. The planes break, the regs break, metal gets bent, students are lost at sea, and a Top Gun wannabe student, who has 400 hours of flight instruction, still hasn’t made his first solo flight.

I've always been her shelter in the storm. Hockey players. MMA fighters. Rock stars. The boys in blue. Even sexy SEALs have all offered to slay my dragon - or in my case, my stalker. Why can't they get it through their thick, stubborn heads that I can take care of myself? I'm no damsel! But...what if the real villain in this story is me? Now the one person I've never been able to resist has appointed himself as my protector.

Camille lives to embody the perfect traditional wife—cooking, cleaning, homesteading, and documenting it all for her followers. When Camille discovers a crumbling well hidden in the wheat field behind her new house, she is drawn to it, despite its proximity to an intimidating local forest. Soon, she's haunted by vivid dreams she believes are divine. Then something visits her—something not quite angelic.

This novel is a satirical look at my life, and I have never written for a porn site. There are four parts to this book: The Rehearsal (trying to figure out my life and men), The Performance (a story in two perspectives about a transgender guy being interviewed), The Reviews, and Pornopraphy (amusing selection of commentary and reviews of media products). I write just a little soft porn for humor, but mostly it's about why my satirical "drag queen" narrator started writing erotica.

Bernd Stromberg ist zurück! In einer von Work-Life-Blending, Genderdebatten und Chatbots bestimmten Welt kehrt der Chef der Schadensregulierung bei der CAPITOL-Versicherung zurück, um ordentlich aufzuräumen. »Zehn Jahre nach dem ersten Film fragen mich immer noch so viele Leute nach dem Bernd, dass ich irgendwann auch wissen wollte, was aus ihm geworden ist, in der neuen Arbeitswelt. Und aus den ganzen anderen Graupen. Vielleicht ist Chef ja wie Corona: Die neuen Varianten sind angeblich harmloser.

Ludwig Kalisch war Gründer der Sonntagszeitung "Der Demokrat" und der Karnevalszeitschrift "Narrhalla", in welchen er Feudalismus und Zensur bekämpfte, was Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts ein höchst gefährliches Unterfangen war. Nachdem er zum Tode verurteilt wurde, lebte und arbeitete er als Journalist in London und Paris. Seine Satiren spiegeln sehr aufschlussreich und humorvoll die autoritären Macht- und Gesellschaftsstrukturen einer Zeit dar, in welcher die freiheitliche Knospe der Demokratie in Europa begann zu versuchen sich langsam zu entfalten.

Norman, a schizophrenic, hears a voice that tells him he has to build a new genetic Ark to save the planet. He struggles to get a grip on reality, but he is told by sexy Jane that his hallucinations might be real. He is visited by Darwin and Einstein, who are excited about Internet gadgets, want to help him fight an evil TV evangelist, and who refuse to leave him alone. On top of this, he is stuck working in the IT support department with his friend Gupta, who likes to spend his time watching porn and avoiding his parents.

Sammlung der 16 wichtigsten Satiren von Kurt Tucholsky (1890-1935), darunter die bekannte Schrift "Was darf Satire?" Tucholsky zählt zu den bedeutendsten Publizisten der Weimarer Republik. Er schrieb unter anderem unter den Pseudonymen Kaspar Hauser, Peter Panter, Theobald Tiger und Ignaz Wrobel.

Piedra Negra is an isolated village that is home to many soldiers who were injured in the revolution and now pass their time drinking firewater so intense that they all hallucinate and most never recover. The firewater distiller's daughter, Elena, longs to be a poet. After a chance encounter with Daniel Arcilla, Cuba's most important poet, she wins a national poetry prize and leaves Piedra Negra behind for Havana. There, she encounters a population adjusting to a new way of life post-revolution: spies with secret meetings and black marketeers dealing with censorship.

The insure-tech industry has become an overnight sensation and darling of Wall Street. In the span of a decade, the Insure-tech industry has become a 10 billion dollar behemoth. Leading the way is a fast up-start insure-tech plainly named Flushy. In the blink of an eye, Flushy has become the most powerful insure-tech of them all. Flushy set out to up-end the entire insurance industry and become the world’s first insurance carrier to be valued at one trillion dollars.

This isn't where Nick Owen thought he would be by this point in life. He used to be a busy web programmer. Now, he spends most of his energy trying to stop his three-year-old twins from playing in a dirty sand pit. Nick thinks of himself as Daddy 3.0, a stay-at-home dad - but he just wasn't programmed for this. He's just about nearing the end of his rope when the Swing Incident happens. Now, Nick's going to have to learn to fight fire with fire and become the best super-parent on the block.

Zara James never expected to fall in love, leaving the hopeless romantic lifestyle to her friends. She also never imagined she'd be expecting a baby and married to the one guy she fought so hard to keep at arm's length. Faced with life's challenges of insecurities, pregnancy hormones, and the pressures of being a new wife in the burbs of Atlanta, Georgia, Zara tries to master them one cupcake at a time. Well, that is until her world is turned upside down by one accident that could change everything.

A Modern Comedic Satire relating to and utilizing how the film "Drunken Master" used novel characters to depict different aspects of Kung Fu.

Satire, Humor and Irony in some cases have been regarded as the most effective source to understand a society, the oldest form of social study. Contents: The Cop and the Anthem by O. Henry; The Ransom of Red Chief by O. Henry; What Stumped the Blue Jays by Mark Twain; The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain; The Toys of Peace by Saki (H. H. Munro); The Artful Hussar by Johann Peter Hebel; From The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen by Rudolf Erich Raspe; The Golden Honeymoon by Ring Lardner; When I Was a Witch by Charlotte Perkins Gilman; Micromegas: A Philosophical History by Voltaire.

Sparks fly when Jane and Dean, the most unlikely couple to ever smash against the lockers of tony Independence Prep, meet again face-to-face after a quarter-life crisis brings Jane to New York for a reboot. On the heels of a mental breakthrough and marital break-up, and fresh off an epic social media meltdown, Jane struggles to keep her head and heart together. Not even Jane's BFF can fix what's broken inside - but will Jane let Dean be part of her happy ending? Or, will the return of Jane's husband press pause on her glow-up?

Ein Hund kann plötzlich sprechen! Was hat er seinem Herrchen zu sagen? So geht es los. Von Hundequälerei erzählt Wuffi und klärt einige Missverständnisse zwischen Mensch und Tier auf, die es in seinen Augen zu geben scheint. Dann aber beginnt der Kampf für die Freiheit der Hunde. Wie wird er enden? Ein satirischer Blick auf ein Problem zwischen Mensch und Hund.

Feel like snacking on bite-sized romantic comedy with an edge? Syd West's rambling ruminations are hysterical and heartfelt, narrator Lexi Evans brings all the feels! Fresh off a loony bin trip and a failed starter marriage, LA reporter Jane moves to Brooklyn with her BFF, Paisley, and takes a gig at Pulse, an online magazine where her first love, Dean, also works - for her high school nemesis, Madison.