Satirist Bassem Youssef tweets

Satirist Dr Bassem Youssef tweets

The satirical site The Shovel picked up the distraction theme

Lebanese blogger and occasional satirist Karl Sharro tweets

Lebanese Iraqi satirical blogger Karl Sharro tweeted

I remember putting that film out and going to cynics.

What does the Lord Sinuhe, the great, rich, and cynical Lord

She's a Iittle cynical and kind of an outsider.

Mark Fiore also had his satire application censored in the United States because some of Apple's staff were concerned it would be offensive to some groups.

Now this is actually a courageous talk, because you're kind of setting up yourself in some ways to be ridiculed in some quarters.

Egyptian blogger Zenobia writes a post with the title incorporating a cynical Why are you so shocked!!?? , and wonders

In our cynical age, many might scoff at such an old fashioned motto (or, indeed, at the power of any motto or slogan).

It was never Bush s determination that was in doubt, nor his geniality despite that slightly annoying rich boy joshing.

Chris Anderson Now this is actually a courageous talk, because you're kind of setting up yourself in some ways to be ridiculed in some quarters.

The tendency of modern mass media to generalize, caricaturize and sensationalize in order to sell news does not help matters.

Satirist Karl Sharro draws a stark comparison between two Al Qaeda offshoots fighting each other in Syria the notorious ISIS and the Nusra front.

Tha Scribbler Bah posted a Gambian voter identity card, describing it as The weapon that all politicians should be afraid of, it's small but does more harm to a politician than a bullet.

Ahmed Albasheer, presenter of the satirical talk show Albasheer Show, mocks a decision by the Iraqi Communication and Media Commission to suspend his program on Alsumaria TV.

This does not have to be hostile, as with the Danish newspaper cartoons. One of the wittiest advertisements on the market today is for a brand of German lingerie.

In a blog post entitled Nessma Trial Luckily the Ridiculous Doesn't Kill , blogger and activist Lina Ben Mhenni commented on the trial proceedings beautifultango7 Verdict due today in Persepolis trial.

Would Youssef bring balance to the current media, all of which is overwhelmingly pro Army and nationalistic?

The rest of the military got dragged down into the muck across the 1990s and they developed this very derisive term to describe it military operations other than war.

Consider the renewed atmosphere of distrust and bitterness this past summer, for instance, when an obnoxious little Youtube video caricaturing Muhammad sparked protests leading to dozens of deaths.

In their burlesque approach to humanity, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza are the most enduring and endearing clownish couple in world literature.

In a viral Facebook post, political satirist Bassem Youssef vented his revulsion to the government and its actions over Tiran and Sanafir, saying, in a excerpt

The rest of the military got dragged down into the muck across the 1990s and they developed this very derisive term to describe it military operations other than war.

When Mazowiecki returned to the podium, he apologized and, with his customary dry wit, suggested that the Polish economy was as unsteady on its feet as he was.

Famous Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef started a hashtag افتكروهم or Remember_Them, and he dedicated his Twitter account to write about prisoners for three days for his over six million followers. What's left on my mind of January_25 are the martyrs of the bahiyya or the beautiful Egypt.

In April 2016, it ordered the suspension of the news satire and talk show Albasheer show on Alsumaria TV for violating professional guidelines and for its low language, and offensive suggestions to the public taste.

In short, it was a military government which, like that of Haiti, had as its only political belief the cynical dictum that the primary duty of every government is not to fall.

The American political cartoonist Mark Fiore also had his satire application censored in the United States because some of Apple's staff were concerned it would be offensive to some groups.

This coup de théȃtre was magnified by Putin s cynical claim that Russia would allow Snowden to stay only if he stopped leaking information aimed at inflicting damage on our American partners.

After all, everyone understood who the welfare cheat was, and who Kristol had in mind when he famously quipped that a neo conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality.

Mark Twain, the nineteenth century American author and humorist, once responded to accounts of his ill health by writing that reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.

My own sarcastic reaction was to think, Oh, now the IMF thinks that some of the core eurozone countries are a default risk.

Syrian President Bashar al Assad s cynical declaration of support for the coup is a sign that some want to turn today s struggle in the Arab world into a bloody contest between Islamists and secularists.

MTV Europe worked with us and made that spoof, and they've been slipping it in between music videos without any introduction, which I think is kind of fun.

When Mazowiecki returned to the podium, he apologized and, with his customary dry wit, suggested that the Polish economy was as unsteady on its feet as he was. He was right.

Whether or not this slogan is an accurate reflection of the exhibition's effect on the city has been debated by Chinese netizens, not least among them being Han Han in his quintessentially derisive manner If you really want a metaphor, it s sort of like when a domestic clothing brand is very hot and heavily advertised.

The drawing portrays two citizens mocking the fourth term the current president is seeking after ruling Algeria for 15 years. The caricature compares the fourth mandate to baby diapers.

Though the comparison is unfair, it is hard not to recall the old quip about the IMF s relative, the United Nations When there is a dispute between two small nations, the UN steps in and the dispute disappears.

A number of lawsuits have greeted Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef's Al Bernameg third season which has just kicked off. This was the most anticipated media and social event in Egypt and probably the Middle East.

Chávez excelled in ridiculing his political enemies, but he was too much of a narcissist to approach the end with the kind of humor that, according to Suetonius, inspired Emperor Vespasian s deathbed quip Oh dear, I must be turning into a God.

Citizen journalist and satirist Abdulwahab Mulla, 24, was kidnapped from his house in Aleppo s liberated area by unidentified masked gunmen on October 8, reported Halab News Network in a Facebook update.

The poet, essayist and satirist, Ali Akbar Saidi Sirjani was arrested that same day for distributing bound photocopies of his books, following an editorial in the Kayhan Havai in which he was accused of having written against Islam in his books.