satirical sketches
Humorous critical scenes
Satirical sketches are short comedic performances that use irony, exaggeration, and ridicule to mock people, institutions, or social conventions.
The format is associated with television variety shows and sketch comedy programs: Saturday Night Live's satirical sketches targeting politicians.
The plural form emphasizes the genre as a body of work rather than a single piece.
- skitBrief comic performance
- parodySatirical imitation
- send upSatirize through imitation
- editorial cartoonIllustrated newspaper commentary
- witClever, inventive humor
Tina Fey · Stephen Colbert · dead-on impression · irony · political corruption · lampoon · biting humor · punching up · fake news · comic strip · medieval jesters · Monty Python · George Orwell · Jonathan Swift · allegory · laugh · mock · social norms
- Russian HumorChekhov, folk humor, comic tales, comedic tales
- cabaretcabaret, cancan, showgirls, burlesque, Moulin Rouge
- Canadian LiteratureMargaret Atwood, Alice Munro, L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, Life of Pi
- funny memoirshumorous essays
satirical sketchesepic drama
Lengthy heroic narrative work
feature-length film · novel adaptation · novel adaptations · miniseries · serialized drama