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Talk About Satire
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Home of Smith & Waugh Talk About Satire, the internet's No. 2 favourite ongoing monthly podcast involving the idea of satire (Feedspot, 2025).

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🚨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
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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
🚨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
October 30, 2025 at 5:52 PM
🚨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
October 30, 2025 at 5:49 PM
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨

EP79. Smith & Waugh Are Not Helping: Sketchy Sketch Show Satire

Jo & Adam take a deep dive into the world of sketch show satire & consider the role of satire in America right now:

open.spotify.com/episode/6Fas...

#SouthPark #CharlieKirk #MitchellandWebb #Comedy #Satire
September 30, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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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🚨

Jo & Adam (@elementaladam.bsky.social) are having a "dilly dally" summer (the new brat, apparently), talking about new Partridge, new South Park, new Squid Games & 28 Years Later to see if they are satire...

creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

#satire #podcasts #comedystudies
July 31, 2025 at 7:39 AM
🚨 NEW EPISODE🚨

EP76. Charlotte Brontë Is In YOU

Could You be Satire?

Jo & Adam investigate the strange Netflix show about putting women in cages & quoting literature at them, before exploring Brontë's own use of satire.

Listen:

spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/SHXYS8f8BUb

#19C #Bronte
June 30, 2025 at 6:10 AM
🚨 NEW EPISODE🚨

EP75. Brit Comedy Abroad & Satire in Song

Jo & Adam (@elementaladam.bsky.social) explore the reception of British comedy around the world & consider the role of satire in contemporary music.

Listen now:
t.co/fPQG86W9vC

#ComedyStudies #TalkAboutSatire
May 31, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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PSA: My article on satire & cannibalism after Swift is currently available open access in the European Journal for Humour Research:

europeanjournalofhumour.org/ejhr/issue/v...

It's part of an amazing special issue ed. by Anne-Sophie Bories & Nils Couturier

#18c #18thC @talkaboutsatire.bsky.social
May 28, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Adam was sharing the last news from the York Research Unit for the Study of Satire at the @yorkstjohn.bsky.social Research Centre summit today.

Read more here:
www.yorksj.ac.uk/research/yor...

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#comedystudies #satire #talkaboutsatire
May 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
🚨 NEW EPISODE🚨

EP74. Satire is Risen: Eggxtra Special Easter Eggstravaganza

Jo & Adam (@elementaladam.bsky.social) cast their eggspert eyes over #BlackMirror, #TheStudio, new Joan & Jericha & satirical reactions to JDV's final meeting with the Pope:

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April 24, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Featuring a discussion of the timeless & excellent Buddha of Suburbia, and a poem about a heroic dog called Dash published in a Sheffield newspaper in 1796.
EP73. Satire in Suburbia (& in Amandaland)

Jo & Adam ask why so much satire is set in Suburbia. Featuring #Amandaland #DavidLynch #Pulp & much more... (also, #Mickey17)

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...

#satire #comedystudies #talkaboutsatire
March 31, 2025 at 8:54 AM
EP73. Satire in Suburbia (& in Amandaland)

Jo & Adam ask why so much satire is set in Suburbia. Featuring #Amandaland #DavidLynch #Pulp & much more... (also, #Mickey17)

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...

#satire #comedystudies #talkaboutsatire
March 31, 2025 at 8:50 AM
February 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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EP.72. "Nightbitch, please": Musk, Motherhood, Modernism & Satire

Jo & Adam dissect the film #Nightbitch, Kevin Rulo's SATIRIC MODERNISM & the satirical responses to Elon's... "wave"?

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#ComedyStudies #Satire #ElonMusk #Motherhood #Modernism
February 25, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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We covered *a lot* in this one, including Prof Paul Simpson’s concept of satire as an echoic discourse, which helps us disambiguate between satirical & non-satirical parody.

Plus, Samuel Johnson, Charlotte Brontë & Nosferatu.

#18C #19C #ComedyStudies #Nosferatu #TheTraitors
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EP.71. Traitors, Haters & Vampire-Maters with Satire & Potatoes

Jo & Adam (@elementaladam.bsky.social) determine whether or not #Nosferatu is satire & discuss satirical hating in the works of Samuel Johnson & Charlotte Brontë:

spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/n97yCqBkBQb 🥔
January 31, 2025 at 9:23 AM
🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨

EP.71. Traitors, Haters & Vampire-Maters with Satire & Potatoes

Jo & Adam (@elementaladam.bsky.social) determine whether or not #Nosferatu is satire & discuss satirical hating in the works of Samuel Johnson & Charlotte Brontë:

spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/n97yCqBkBQb 🥔
January 31, 2025 at 8:50 AM
📢 TICKETS ARE NOW ON SALE FOR OUR 2025 SMITH & WAUGH LIVE #YorkLitFest EVENT 📢

Join us for an entertaining & enlightening exploration of some of British Literature's greatest feuds.

Tickets: www.yorktheatreroyal.co.uk/show/literar... @elementaladam.bsky.social

#18c #19c #18thC #19thc
January 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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🚨 NEW EPISODE OUT NOW🚨

EP70. Satire Actually: Christmas with Stella Gibbons & The Grossmiths

Jo & I tease the festive satire out of some wonderful comic works by Stella Gibbons, Nancy Mitford & the Grossmiths.

Listen:
open.spotify.com/episode/42VM...

#booktwt @talkaboutsatire.bsky.social
December 18, 2024 at 9:46 AM
NEW EPISODE

EP61. Satire Is Not A Potato: Brontës, Babies & Kate Middleton Memes

Jo & Adam investigate:

Was Anne the most satirical Brontë?

Was Charlotte a fan of Swift?

And where is amateur photographer Kate Middleton?

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March 21, 2024 at 9:11 AM
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Jo & I were interviewed on the student podcast Unspoken Stories last week, where we talked about such topics as:

Overlooked #18thC women writers Sarah Fielding, Jane Collier & Eliza Haywood
Teaching philosophies
Taylor Swift
"Romantisy"
Neurodiversity in X-Men

open.spotify.com/episode/159m...
March 16, 2024 at 7:42 AM
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"Bessie asked if I would have a book: the word book acted as a transient stimulus, & I begged her to fetch Gulliver’s Travels from the library."

Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre.

If you're in York tmrw, join us for @talkaboutsatire.bsky.social LIVE at the #YorkLitFest

#18thC #19thC #18C #19C #Brontës
March 16, 2024 at 7:24 AM
NEW EPISODE!

EP60. Satire Lads, Lads, Lads: Gulliver, Gregg & The Grossmiths (& A.I.)

In their landmark 60th pod, Jo & Adam share their top satirical #BookRecs & discuss Gregg Wallace's Saturday & the sketch show We Made a Bot Write This:

t.co/lryghc1RxO

#18C #19C #Satire
February 27, 2024 at 8:46 AM
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW

EP59. January Grab Bag: Barbies, Traitors, Poor Things & Character Comedy

Jo & Adam talk about: #TraitorsUK, #PoorThings, Big Beacon by #AlanPartridge, Incarcerat by #GarthMarenghi & much more...

spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/mpTnTSRyKGb

#satire #18C #19C
January 29, 2024 at 9:49 AM
As an experiment we asked BingAI to listen to 50+ episodes our podcast, Smith & Waugh Talk About Satire, and then generate a poster for it.

It made this 😆
January 26, 2024 at 8:17 AM
SMITH & WAUGH TALK ABOUT SATIRE LIVE: SATIRE & THE BRONTES

Back by popular demand, Jo & Adam will return to
#York Literature Festival on 17 March to talk about the lighter side of the lives, literature & legacies of the Brontë sisters:

t.co/uLNZcYlXjG

#Brontes #19C #18C #YLF2024
January 17, 2024 at 4:36 PM