Dr Adam James Smith
@elementaladam.bsky.social
Chief Reviews Editor, Journal for 18th-Century Studies (JECS).
Interests: #18C Print Culture, esp Satire & Periodicals.
Podcast: http://anchor.fm/satire-no-more (@talkaboutsatire.bsky.com)
Interests: #18C Print Culture, esp Satire & Periodicals.
Podcast: http://anchor.fm/satire-no-more (@talkaboutsatire.bsky.com)
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🚨 NEW EPISODE🚨
Permission to start feeling Christmasy, our festive special is here...
Jo & Adam bring you The Grinch Who Stole Satire, Plur1bus, Wake Up Dead Man, Alan Partridge, Christmas cheer, and the return of fan-fave, Toast Man.
open.spotify.com/episode/0hEn...
@elementaladam.bsky.social
Permission to start feeling Christmasy, our festive special is here...
Jo & Adam bring you The Grinch Who Stole Satire, Plur1bus, Wake Up Dead Man, Alan Partridge, Christmas cheer, and the return of fan-fave, Toast Man.
open.spotify.com/episode/0hEn...
@elementaladam.bsky.social
Apparently ChatGPT thinks I'm earnest and pedantic, especially when discussing 19th-century novels... All this and more in the festive Smith & Waugh 🌲
#podcast #satire #humourstudies
#podcast #satire #humourstudies
One of my undergraduate students, Oliver Lewis, has a Substack and he's written a piece about Laurence Sterne & Charlotte Lennox, & it's actually left my head spinning - what a remarkable, deeply thoughtful piece of writing:
open.substack.com/pub/oliverle...
#18C #18thC #18thCentury
open.substack.com/pub/oliverle...
#18C #18thC #18thCentury
An Author's Performance
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne. 784pp. Penguin. £10.99 / The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox. 464pp. Oxford University Press. £11.99
open.substack.com
February 2, 2026 at 1:50 PM
One of my undergraduate students, Oliver Lewis, has a Substack and he's written a piece about Laurence Sterne & Charlotte Lennox, & it's actually left my head spinning - what a remarkable, deeply thoughtful piece of writing:
open.substack.com/pub/oliverle...
#18C #18thC #18thCentury
open.substack.com/pub/oliverle...
#18C #18thC #18thCentury
Reposted by Dr Adam James Smith
January #Newbooks: "Impolite Periodicals: Reading for Rudeness in the Eighteenth Century" by editors Emrys D. Jones, @elementaladam.bsky.social, and Katarina Stenke, and "Magical Realism and the History of the Emotions in Latin America" by Jerónimo Arellano.
To order: tinyurl.com/89yw6np6
To order: tinyurl.com/89yw6np6
January 27, 2026 at 4:34 PM
January #Newbooks: "Impolite Periodicals: Reading for Rudeness in the Eighteenth Century" by editors Emrys D. Jones, @elementaladam.bsky.social, and Katarina Stenke, and "Magical Realism and the History of the Emotions in Latin America" by Jerónimo Arellano.
To order: tinyurl.com/89yw6np6
To order: tinyurl.com/89yw6np6
Reposted by Dr Adam James Smith
🚨 NEW EPISODE🚨
Is The Housemaid satire?
What do The Traitors memes tell us?
How did the internet handle Stranger Things?
Also featuring Toast Man, buttered-toast confidence & Adam vs "cutlery" 🍞
Listen:
open.spotify.com/episode/0Rvo...
#StrangerThings #TheTraitors #thehousemaid
Is The Housemaid satire?
What do The Traitors memes tell us?
How did the internet handle Stranger Things?
Also featuring Toast Man, buttered-toast confidence & Adam vs "cutlery" 🍞
Listen:
open.spotify.com/episode/0Rvo...
#StrangerThings #TheTraitors #thehousemaid
January 27, 2026 at 10:29 AM
🚨 NEW EPISODE🚨
Is The Housemaid satire?
What do The Traitors memes tell us?
How did the internet handle Stranger Things?
Also featuring Toast Man, buttered-toast confidence & Adam vs "cutlery" 🍞
Listen:
open.spotify.com/episode/0Rvo...
#StrangerThings #TheTraitors #thehousemaid
Is The Housemaid satire?
What do The Traitors memes tell us?
How did the internet handle Stranger Things?
Also featuring Toast Man, buttered-toast confidence & Adam vs "cutlery" 🍞
Listen:
open.spotify.com/episode/0Rvo...
#StrangerThings #TheTraitors #thehousemaid
In disassociating satire from comedy... Rulo has demonstrated satire’s transhistorical ubiquity when understood as a deconstructivediscourse, rather than a comic device
My review of Kevin Rulo's Satiric Modernism is out now:
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/NIDWK...
#ComedyStudies #Modernism #Satire
My review of Kevin Rulo's Satiric Modernism is out now:
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/NIDWK...
#ComedyStudies #Modernism #Satire
Satiric Modernism
Published in Comedy Studies (Ahead of Print, 2026)
www.tandfonline.com
January 16, 2026 at 2:05 PM
In disassociating satire from comedy... Rulo has demonstrated satire’s transhistorical ubiquity when understood as a deconstructivediscourse, rather than a comic device
My review of Kevin Rulo's Satiric Modernism is out now:
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/NIDWK...
#ComedyStudies #Modernism #Satire
My review of Kevin Rulo's Satiric Modernism is out now:
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/NIDWK...
#ComedyStudies #Modernism #Satire
Come along to the ALSE-UKI online seminar on 29 Jan, featuring a wide range of papers from contributors to the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Literature & the Environment.
Book your free place here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/asle-uki-s...
#18thCentury #18C #18thC
Book your free place here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/asle-uki-s...
#18thCentury #18C #18thC
January 12, 2026 at 1:38 PM
Come along to the ALSE-UKI online seminar on 29 Jan, featuring a wide range of papers from contributors to the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Literature & the Environment.
Book your free place here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/asle-uki-s...
#18thCentury #18C #18thC
Book your free place here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/asle-uki-s...
#18thCentury #18C #18thC
Reposted by Dr Adam James Smith
This collection reads for impoliteness, revealing a more nuanced, granular, and dynamic view of eighteenth-century periodical.
Available for pre-order here📚 buff.ly/pvnBBVb
@bucknellupress.bsky.social
@bsecs.bsky.social
@elementaladam.bsky.social
#BSECS2026
#18c
Available for pre-order here📚 buff.ly/pvnBBVb
@bucknellupress.bsky.social
@bsecs.bsky.social
@elementaladam.bsky.social
#BSECS2026
#18c
January 7, 2026 at 1:02 PM
This collection reads for impoliteness, revealing a more nuanced, granular, and dynamic view of eighteenth-century periodical.
Available for pre-order here📚 buff.ly/pvnBBVb
@bucknellupress.bsky.social
@bsecs.bsky.social
@elementaladam.bsky.social
#BSECS2026
#18c
Available for pre-order here📚 buff.ly/pvnBBVb
@bucknellupress.bsky.social
@bsecs.bsky.social
@elementaladam.bsky.social
#BSECS2026
#18c
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My wonderful father-in-law has just died at the age of 90. He read the whole Austen ouevre every couple of years. When he recently (initially) survived critical illness against the odds, his first words to my partner were: ‘I’m so glad I made it! I get to read Austen yet again’.
January 12, 2026 at 1:33 PM
🥺
Reposted by Dr Adam James Smith
Had a great time in Oxford for my first #BSECS2026. Thanks to @elementaladam.bsky.social for having me on and chairing the panel ‘Bodies Politic, Bodies Satiric: Satirical Embodiment in Georgian Britain and Ireland’ where I talked all things Fielding, drink, and Jacobite!
January 9, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Had a great time in Oxford for my first #BSECS2026. Thanks to @elementaladam.bsky.social for having me on and chairing the panel ‘Bodies Politic, Bodies Satiric: Satirical Embodiment in Georgian Britain and Ireland’ where I talked all things Fielding, drink, and Jacobite!
Apparently ChatGPT thinks I'm earnest and pedantic, especially when discussing 19th-century novels... All this and more in the festive Smith & Waugh 🌲
#podcast #satire #humourstudies
#podcast #satire #humourstudies
🚨 NEW EPISODE🚨
Permission to start feeling Christmasy, our festive special is here...
Jo & Adam bring you The Grinch Who Stole Satire, Plur1bus, Wake Up Dead Man, Alan Partridge, Christmas cheer, and the return of fan-fave, Toast Man.
open.spotify.com/episode/0hEn...
@elementaladam.bsky.social
Permission to start feeling Christmasy, our festive special is here...
Jo & Adam bring you The Grinch Who Stole Satire, Plur1bus, Wake Up Dead Man, Alan Partridge, Christmas cheer, and the return of fan-fave, Toast Man.
open.spotify.com/episode/0hEn...
@elementaladam.bsky.social
December 20, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Apparently ChatGPT thinks I'm earnest and pedantic, especially when discussing 19th-century novels... All this and more in the festive Smith & Waugh 🌲
#podcast #satire #humourstudies
#podcast #satire #humourstudies
“They said we were crazy. They said we couldn't put HAUNTOLOGY inside of JANE AUSTEN. They were wrong.”
Here's my final post for The Classics Club #ReadingAusten2025 readalong, playfully proposing a hauntological reading of Persuasion:
theclassicsclubblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/30/h...
#JaneAusten
Here's my final post for The Classics Club #ReadingAusten2025 readalong, playfully proposing a hauntological reading of Persuasion:
theclassicsclubblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/30/h...
#JaneAusten
Haunted by Persuasion: When Old Books Become Old Friends | Guest Host: Dr Adam J. Smith
On 1 November, Rach left the following comment on my first Persuasion post: “I think there is such magic in going back to these books and reading them again.” Then, This Reading Life added: “I’ve a…
theclassicsclubblog.wordpress.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:45 AM
“They said we were crazy. They said we couldn't put HAUNTOLOGY inside of JANE AUSTEN. They were wrong.”
Here's my final post for The Classics Club #ReadingAusten2025 readalong, playfully proposing a hauntological reading of Persuasion:
theclassicsclubblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/30/h...
#JaneAusten
Here's my final post for The Classics Club #ReadingAusten2025 readalong, playfully proposing a hauntological reading of Persuasion:
theclassicsclubblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/30/h...
#JaneAusten
"To take [Poe] with more than a certain degree of seriousness is to lack seriousness one's self."
Henry James on Edgar Allen Poe.
#19C #EdgarAllenPoe #HenryJames
Henry James on Edgar Allen Poe.
#19C #EdgarAllenPoe #HenryJames
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨
Join us for an episode filled with spectacular spats, bruised egos & top-tier shade as we explore the art of literary feuding:
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...
#18c #19c #JaneAusten #CharlotteBronte #Podcast #Satire
Join us for an episode filled with spectacular spats, bruised egos & top-tier shade as we explore the art of literary feuding:
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...
#18c #19c #JaneAusten #CharlotteBronte #Podcast #Satire
December 2, 2025 at 11:37 AM
"To take [Poe] with more than a certain degree of seriousness is to lack seriousness one's self."
Henry James on Edgar Allen Poe.
#19C #EdgarAllenPoe #HenryJames
Henry James on Edgar Allen Poe.
#19C #EdgarAllenPoe #HenryJames
"There is no bearing the driveling idiotism of the Mankin"
Lord Byron on the "P*ss a bed poetry" of "Johnny Keats"
#18C #19C #Romanticism
Lord Byron on the "P*ss a bed poetry" of "Johnny Keats"
#18C #19C #Romanticism
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨
Join us for an episode filled with spectacular spats, bruised egos & top-tier shade as we explore the art of literary feuding:
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...
#18c #19c #JaneAusten #CharlotteBronte #Podcast #Satire
Join us for an episode filled with spectacular spats, bruised egos & top-tier shade as we explore the art of literary feuding:
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...
#18c #19c #JaneAusten #CharlotteBronte #Podcast #Satire
December 2, 2025 at 11:36 AM
"There is no bearing the driveling idiotism of the Mankin"
Lord Byron on the "P*ss a bed poetry" of "Johnny Keats"
#18C #19C #Romanticism
Lord Byron on the "P*ss a bed poetry" of "Johnny Keats"
#18C #19C #Romanticism
“The more I read Austen, the more I feel that all of the books are really about how to read and understand and interpret the world.”
I love contributing to Jane Austen's Paper Trail, alongside esteemed colleagues Meg Kobza & Octavia Cox:
theconversation.com/jane-austen-... #18thC #18C #JaneAusten
I love contributing to Jane Austen's Paper Trail, alongside esteemed colleagues Meg Kobza & Octavia Cox:
theconversation.com/jane-austen-... #18thC #18C #JaneAusten
Jane Austen perfected the love story – but kept her own independence
In the second episode of Jane Austen’s Paper Trail, we speak to Austen experts about her views on love, and the role of romance in Pride & Prejudice.
theconversation.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
“The more I read Austen, the more I feel that all of the books are really about how to read and understand and interpret the world.”
I love contributing to Jane Austen's Paper Trail, alongside esteemed colleagues Meg Kobza & Octavia Cox:
theconversation.com/jane-austen-... #18thC #18C #JaneAusten
I love contributing to Jane Austen's Paper Trail, alongside esteemed colleagues Meg Kobza & Octavia Cox:
theconversation.com/jane-austen-... #18thC #18C #JaneAusten
We so much enjoyed talking to Leigh about this delightful novel, the state of satiric literacy, what BookTok is doing to the publishing industry & the ways we read & the best way to celebrate Halloween 👻
#halloween #books #authorinterview #satire
#halloween #books #authorinterview #satire
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨
Acclaimed novelist Leigh Stein returns to talk to Jo & Adam
(@elementaladam.bsky.social) about her new novel, IF YOU'RE SEEING THIS IT'S MEANT FOR YOU, a satirical Gothic novel set inside a TikTok Hype house.
Listen: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...
#Halloween #satire #gothic
Acclaimed novelist Leigh Stein returns to talk to Jo & Adam
(@elementaladam.bsky.social) about her new novel, IF YOU'RE SEEING THIS IT'S MEANT FOR YOU, a satirical Gothic novel set inside a TikTok Hype house.
Listen: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...
#Halloween #satire #gothic
October 30, 2025 at 5:52 PM
We so much enjoyed talking to Leigh about this delightful novel, the state of satiric literacy, what BookTok is doing to the publishing industry & the ways we read & the best way to celebrate Halloween 👻
#halloween #books #authorinterview #satire
#halloween #books #authorinterview #satire
"When it comes to Jane, so many images have been danced before us.. The effect of all of them together is to make us read novels that aren't actually there." - Helena Kelly
Glorious meeting of the York Georgian Book Club, following a brill lecture by Lizzie Rogers!
#18C #18thCentury #JaneAusten
Glorious meeting of the York Georgian Book Club, following a brill lecture by Lizzie Rogers!
#18C #18thCentury #JaneAusten
October 25, 2025 at 7:13 PM
"When it comes to Jane, so many images have been danced before us.. The effect of all of them together is to make us read novels that aren't actually there." - Helena Kelly
Glorious meeting of the York Georgian Book Club, following a brill lecture by Lizzie Rogers!
#18C #18thCentury #JaneAusten
Glorious meeting of the York Georgian Book Club, following a brill lecture by Lizzie Rogers!
#18C #18thCentury #JaneAusten
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We are thrilled to share the CFP for our Symposium, Politics and Culture of the Late Stuart Court, 1649-1714. We hope to bring together a range of interdisciplinary research on this complex and understudied period! #EarlyModern #CfP
October 21, 2025 at 10:59 AM
We are thrilled to share the CFP for our Symposium, Politics and Culture of the Late Stuart Court, 1649-1714. We hope to bring together a range of interdisciplinary research on this complex and understudied period! #EarlyModern #CfP
Join us for the online launch of The People of Print: Eighteenth-Century England, a collection of biographical essays about lesser-known figures from 18C book history!
The event is free to attend but booking is essential: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
#18thC #18c #18thCentury #BookHistory
The event is free to attend but booking is essential: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
#18thC #18c #18thCentury #BookHistory
October 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Join us for the online launch of The People of Print: Eighteenth-Century England, a collection of biographical essays about lesser-known figures from 18C book history!
The event is free to attend but booking is essential: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
#18thC #18c #18thCentury #BookHistory
The event is free to attend but booking is essential: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
#18thC #18c #18thCentury #BookHistory
Reposted by Dr Adam James Smith
It’s a pleasure to appear alongside such a great group of scholars in ‘The People of Print: Eighteenth-Century England’, overseen by the brilliant @elementaladam.bsky.social, Rachel Stenner and Kaley Kramer.
You can read it for free over the next two weeks here: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
You can read it for free over the next two weeks here: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
September 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
It’s a pleasure to appear alongside such a great group of scholars in ‘The People of Print: Eighteenth-Century England’, overseen by the brilliant @elementaladam.bsky.social, Rachel Stenner and Kaley Kramer.
You can read it for free over the next two weeks here: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
You can read it for free over the next two weeks here: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
People of Print: Eighteenth-Century England is out today and free to download until 7 Oct:
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Edited by Rachel Stenner, Kaley Kramer & I, this volume collects 10 new biographical essays about lesser known, diverse figures involved in the #18C print trade.
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Edited by Rachel Stenner, Kaley Kramer & I, this volume collects 10 new biographical essays about lesser known, diverse figures involved in the #18C print trade.
The People of Print
Cambridge Core - Printing and Publishing History - The People of Print
www.cambridge.org
September 23, 2025 at 6:36 PM
People of Print: Eighteenth-Century England is out today and free to download until 7 Oct:
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Edited by Rachel Stenner, Kaley Kramer & I, this volume collects 10 new biographical essays about lesser known, diverse figures involved in the #18C print trade.
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Edited by Rachel Stenner, Kaley Kramer & I, this volume collects 10 new biographical essays about lesser known, diverse figures involved in the #18C print trade.
Reposted by Dr Adam James Smith
#18thc #skystorians! Help! Was faux nudity a thing during Restoration masques or plays or early 18thC theatrical productions? Looking for context for a masq habit of a 'naked' Adam (he was wearing sarsinet) & trying to determine how shocking this actually would have been...
September 8, 2025 at 10:11 AM
#18thc #skystorians! Help! Was faux nudity a thing during Restoration masques or plays or early 18thC theatrical productions? Looking for context for a masq habit of a 'naked' Adam (he was wearing sarsinet) & trying to determine how shocking this actually would have been...
Reposted by Dr Adam James Smith
@yalebooks.bsky.social are celebrating Jane Austen's 250th birthday by offering a 30% discount on their 'World of Jane Austen' books using discount code JA250 #skystorians #18thC
yalebooks.co.uk/austen-250-t...
yalebooks.co.uk/austen-250-t...
Austen 250 - The World of Jane Austen - Yale University Press London
30% off the listed prices - and free postage in the UK - on our selected World of Jane Austen books. Use the code JA250 when prompted in the checkout to
yalebooks.co.uk
September 9, 2025 at 9:29 AM
@yalebooks.bsky.social are celebrating Jane Austen's 250th birthday by offering a 30% discount on their 'World of Jane Austen' books using discount code JA250 #skystorians #18thC
yalebooks.co.uk/austen-250-t...
yalebooks.co.uk/austen-250-t...
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Good morning fellow #18thCentury #Romanticism and #DigitalHumanities friends! My monograph, British Women Novelists and the Review Periodical will be out in March 2026! I hope you'll request that your library purchases a copy, & snag one for yourself!
www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
British Women Novelists and the Review Periodical
How did book reviews shape the fate of novels and their authors during the height of women's literary influence?At the turn of the nineteenth century, British women novelists were publishing more fict...
www.press.jhu.edu
September 11, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Good morning fellow #18thCentury #Romanticism and #DigitalHumanities friends! My monograph, British Women Novelists and the Review Periodical will be out in March 2026! I hope you'll request that your library purchases a copy, & snag one for yourself!
www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
Reposted by Dr Adam James Smith
Thrilled to be joining a digression of Sternean colleagues later in the year - I’ll be presenting a paper titled ‘’Travelling Is To Be Recncil’d To Mankind In General’ - An Early Reading of A Sentimental Journey’
We are delighted to be co-hosting the Laurence Sterne Conference this year from 5th - 7th November 2025 at @sotauol.bsky.social🌍
Deadline for registration: 1st September
Deadline for proposals: 15th August
Find out more and how to register: bit.ly/SterneConference25
@lsternetrust.bsky.social
Deadline for registration: 1st September
Deadline for proposals: 15th August
Find out more and how to register: bit.ly/SterneConference25
@lsternetrust.bsky.social
August 20, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Thrilled to be joining a digression of Sternean colleagues later in the year - I’ll be presenting a paper titled ‘’Travelling Is To Be Recncil’d To Mankind In General’ - An Early Reading of A Sentimental Journey’
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Planning the first month of term? Don’t miss @elementaladam.bsky.social at UCD, speaking as part of the Drinking Cultures project!
All are welcome to this in-person seminar: “Hate, Shame, and Boozy Banter in the Eighteenth Century” 🍻 Full abstract here: texerenetwork.com/drinkingcult...
All are welcome to this in-person seminar: “Hate, Shame, and Boozy Banter in the Eighteenth Century” 🍻 Full abstract here: texerenetwork.com/drinkingcult...
September 2, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Planning the first month of term? Don’t miss @elementaladam.bsky.social at UCD, speaking as part of the Drinking Cultures project!
All are welcome to this in-person seminar: “Hate, Shame, and Boozy Banter in the Eighteenth Century” 🍻 Full abstract here: texerenetwork.com/drinkingcult...
All are welcome to this in-person seminar: “Hate, Shame, and Boozy Banter in the Eighteenth Century” 🍻 Full abstract here: texerenetwork.com/drinkingcult...
Reposted by Dr Adam James Smith
🚨 NEW EPISODE🚨
EP78. Cartoon Comebacks: Animated Satire from #kingofthehillreboot to #SouthPark
Jo & Adam (@elementaladam.bsky.social) take a look at the ways American adult animated comedy is satirising Donald Trump's administration:
creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
EP78. Cartoon Comebacks: Animated Satire from #kingofthehillreboot to #SouthPark
Jo & Adam (@elementaladam.bsky.social) take a look at the ways American adult animated comedy is satirising Donald Trump's administration:
creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
August 29, 2025 at 7:59 AM
🚨 NEW EPISODE🚨
EP78. Cartoon Comebacks: Animated Satire from #kingofthehillreboot to #SouthPark
Jo & Adam (@elementaladam.bsky.social) take a look at the ways American adult animated comedy is satirising Donald Trump's administration:
creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
EP78. Cartoon Comebacks: Animated Satire from #kingofthehillreboot to #SouthPark
Jo & Adam (@elementaladam.bsky.social) take a look at the ways American adult animated comedy is satirising Donald Trump's administration:
creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...