Satire Comedy

Meet the writers’ room of the kid’s show Rooty Root Vegetables, which struggles to find humor in carbon emissions and climate change. Then things get punny.

A death foretold. A truth footnoted. A bureaucracy panicking. Decimus Flaccus was just a scribe. Quiet, diligent, and very nearly forgettable—until he accidentally overheard a conspiracy to kill Julius Caesar. Now he’s juggling misplaced prophecies, bribable omens, one extremely combustible laundress, and Rome’s worst-kept secret. His job? File a report. His plan? Stay unnoticed. His mistake? Telling the truth.

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.

Brought to you by Penguin. All across Britain, a generation of grown-up children are graduating from university, moving back in to their old bedrooms and showing their gratitude by berating their parents for their out-of-date politics. But for proud and high-profile left-wingers Emma and Eddie...

A dazzling collection of comedies from the later Restoration period England's 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688 and the reign of new monarchs William and Mary signified a turning point for Restoration comedy with laws being passed to restrict playwrights' freedoms. The latter years are marked by a...

The demons who once ran amok down there, torturing lost souls, were easy enough to subdue. The damned, left without their tormentors, have been put to work on cotton and tobacco plantations. As for the colonists, it takes all sorts to give up the comforts of home and make new lives on the infernal frontier.

My name is Holly Hyman. I love order and prime numbers - and I’m in trouble. The company I work for is pivoting, and not in a way I like. Our new management? Alex Chortsky, a gorgeous, scruffy Russian devil. Our new direction? VR entertainment of the spicy kind. Maybe I wouldn’t mind it so much if my life’s work wasn’t meant for children. Or if I hadn’t accidentally hooked up with a VR version of my wickedly handsome boss. The only way to save my dream project is to make a Faustian bargain. For one night, I pretend to be Alex Chortsky’s girlfriend.

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.

Twenty-six-year-old single mum Brianna Lewis (a.k.a. Bree) doesn't believe in fairy tales - not after being abandoned by the father of daughter, Isabelle. Suddenly finding herself in dire straits, she converts her garden shed into a rental suite in hopes of climbing out of the financial hole she's in. But when the only person interested in renting the suite turns out to be to Leopold Davenport, the ridiculously good-looking co-worker she loves to hate, she knows she must choose between being happy and being broke.

En "Olvidar Machu Picchu", Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa aborda una cuestión moral que no tiene fácil respuesta, y lo hace como siempre a través del canal de su prosa áfil y afilada y de su mirada irónica. Un ama de casa que lleva una vida de lo más anodina se ve de pronto en la tesitura de acabar con la vida de un tiburón de los negocios, un explotador confeso de América Latina y responsable de numerosas muertes. El acto de la protagonista no le acarreará consecuencia alguna, pero, ¿debería llevarlo a cabo?

In Praise of Greed: A Satire in Rhyme is a modern English translation of Lof de Geldsucht by the seventeenth-century Dutch poet Jeremias de Decker. In rhymed couplet like the original, In Praise of Greed is a sustained, ingenious voice-portrait of Greed personified. It dredges up both classical and Christian authorities, scientific breakthroughs, Dutch seafaring, and forces the reader to think about wealth, ambition, and moral agency from an unfamiliar perspective—"through Greed's glasses." The poem is both timely and timeless.

Ephraim Kishon wusste: Was immer schiefgehen kann, wird auch schiefgehen. Ob im trauten Familienkreis, bei der Arbeit oder auf Reisen - die täglichen Katastrophen sind ein fester Bestandteil unseres Lebens. Ohne sie wäre das Leben ja entsetzlich langweilig. Wie man damit am besten umgeht? Mit Humor und Gelassenheit! Denn was wir wirklich brauchen, in guten wie in schlechten Zeiten, ist das Lachen. Und die Fähigkeit, sich selbst und die anderen nicht immer ganz ernst zu nehmen. Herrlich schräge Familiengeschichten gelesen von Johannes Steck.

Herr A. ist ein armes Würstchen. Ständig tappt er in eine der zahllosen Fallen, die das Leben für die Männer ausgelegt hat. Typisch Mann eben. Da ist die Liebe, die Auseinandersetzung mit seiner Frau beim Schuhkauf, beim Fußball und beim Heimwerken, Probleme mit den Kindern und auf der Arbeit, die Beobachtung der Geminiden, die Sache mit der Diät und schließlich der Wettstreit mit den Igeln. Als Retterin in allen Notlagen erweist sich seine Frau.

Sali Terri and George Shooters - two rookie officers from the Galactic Guild - find themselves in way over their heads with political intrigue, working to ratify a treaty with the cantankerous locals of a small planet called Kili Wanna. Every time an agreement is about to be reached with the current emperor, someone kills him off, nullifying the planet's induction into the Galactic Guild. The madness ramps up when outside influences take the matter into their own hands and flood the podunk planet with junk food in an attempt to corrupt their simple lifestyle and force an alliance.

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.

Mark bekommt bei der Corona-Impfung einen falschen Impfstoff verpasst, der Affen-DNA in sein Erbgut einschleust. Er verwandelt sich langsam in einen Affen. Wie kommt er damit zurecht? Am Ende geht es um nicht weniger als die Unsterblichkeit.

Giulio Montesano è un affermato architetto ed esperto d’arte. Una vita di successo grazie alla partnership con Vittorio Zanca, ambiguo ingegnere edile di origini calabro-venete e dubbia moralità, che lo ha introdotto nella società che conta, ma a caro prezzo. Giulio però ha un segreto: la notte di ogni 15 del mese rischia la vita nascondendosi al centro della carreggiata di una strada statale in una grande scatola. È solo uno spregiudicato gioco mortale? No, la scatola assume nel corso del romanzo varie funzioni con l’evolversi turbolento della storia.

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.

David’s up for a giggle when wild-card therapy client Bennett ropes him into running therapy sessions at a comedy conference. It should be a hoot, but nobody’s laughing when a conference attendee turns up dead, and veiled threats waft David’s way. Treading a fine line between self-preservation and sleuthing, David calls in his growing posse for backup and some questionable group improv.

Der hellsichtigste Beobachter der Weimarer Republik und ihres Niedergangs war ein Multitalent, das sowohl Leitartikel, Glosse, Reportage als auch Satire, Gedicht, Lied und Couplet beherrschte...