Satire

It’s been another normal and sane week on the internet. It feels like only yesterday that we were chuckling about the Kardashians asking what the Debs was and Gucci were producing rip-off GAA shorts. Well, last Friday a bit of distinctly…

On the latest PODAROONEY, Joe chats to Shazia Mirza. Shazia was born in Birmingham, England—the eldest daughter of Muslim parents who moved from Pakistan to Birmingham in the 1960s. About a year into her comedy career, after the…

My first encounter with Michael Patrick Jann's Drop Dead Gorgeous was probably a couple of years after its release, on one of its televised broadcasts. I inadvertently came across the film at the very moment Tammy Curry (Brooke Elise…

Minister for the environment, Richard Bruton expressed dissatisfaction about the implementation by Starbucks, of a new recyclable straw policy. He recently addressed the press, regarding the grave environmental concerns he had, in relation…

In my younger and more vulnerable years a self-help huckster gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my head ever since. Whenever you feel like criticising anyone, he told me, tidy your room and fill your house with innumerable…

“Critique is so limiting and emotionally draining.” Maybe that’s true but Velvet Buzzsaw – the new Netflix horror-satire from Nightcrawler writer/director Dan Gilroy – doesn’t have any right to say it. The film, although visually…

It all starts when your close friend (who’s called you to dinner to talk about “something important”) says, “BTW, been seeing a therapist for the last two years, have PTSD, mainly because of a childhood sexual abuse incident, okay, cool,…

Four poorly clothed men sitting in a homeless hostel in 2020. In the background Amhrán na bhFiann is being played on pan pipes... KK1 John: Ahh... Very dry this, very warm. KK2 Brian: Nothing like the flu vaccine, eh Seanie? KK3…

Hundreds of thousands of No voters awoke on Saturday morning to find themselves catapulted 35 years into the future. Thousands of microtears in the space-time continuum have been localised to the polling stations dotted throughout the…

On this week's episode of The Suss, Steph and Glenn are joined in studio with Harry Burton political cartoonist with Phoenix Magazine, The Dublin Inquirer, and Private Eye for a chat about the role of satire in the modern news cycle. Ups…