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Talk About Satire @talkaboutsatire.bsky.social · 9d

🚨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

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Talk About Satire @talkaboutsatire.bsky.social · Aug 29

🚨 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/...

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Talk About Satire @talkaboutsatire.bsky.social · Jul 31

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

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Talk About Satire @talkaboutsatire.bsky.social · Jun 30

🚨 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

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Talk About Satire @talkaboutsatire.bsky.social · May 31

Read the recent BBC report on comedy as a premium British export that demands further investment:

www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

BBC report into value of UK comedy industry calls for urgent action from both industry and the Government to protect jewel in the UK’s cultural crown

Landmark report reveals British comedy generates substantial cultural and economic returns

www.bbc.co.uk

Talk About Satire @talkaboutsatire.bsky.social · May 31

Read more about the vast project undertaken by
@matthewhilborn.bsky.social & Professors Jeanette Steemers & Andrea Esser on Screen Encounters with Britain around Europe:

kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/pu...

Screen encounters with Britain. What do young Europeans make of Britain and its digital screen culture? FINAL REPORT

kclpure.kcl.ac.uk

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Talk About Satire @talkaboutsatire.bsky.social · May 31

🚨 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

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Dr Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social · May 28

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

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Talk About Satire @talkaboutsatire.bsky.social · May 27

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...

Sign up as an affiliate here:
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#comedystudies #satire #talkaboutsatire

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Talk About Satire @talkaboutsatire.bsky.social · Apr 24

🚨 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:

spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/yBr39qL7OSb

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Dr Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social · Mar 31

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.

Talk About Satire @talkaboutsatire.bsky.social · Mar 31

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

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Talk About Satire @talkaboutsatire.bsky.social · Mar 31

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

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Talk About Satire @talkaboutsatire.bsky.social · Feb 26

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Talk About Satire @talkaboutsatire.bsky.social · Feb 25

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨

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"?

spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/VRtbW1NWgRb

#ComedyStudies #Satire #ElonMusk #Motherhood #Modernism

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Dr Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social · Jan 31

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

Talk About Satire @talkaboutsatire.bsky.social · Jan 31

🚨 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 🥔

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Talk About Satire @talkaboutsatire.bsky.social · Jan 31

🚨 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 🥔

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Talk About Satire @talkaboutsatire.bsky.social · Jan 25

📢 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

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Dr Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social · Dec 18

🚨 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

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Talk About Satire @talkaboutsatire.bsky.social · Mar 21

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?

spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/ItloIYuT8Hb

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Dr Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social · Mar 16

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...

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Dr Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social · Mar 16

"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

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Talk About Satire @talkaboutsatire.bsky.social · Feb 27

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

Talk About Satire @talkaboutsatire.bsky.social · Jan 29

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

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Talk About Satire @talkaboutsatire.bsky.social · Jan 26

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 😆

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Talk About Satire @talkaboutsatire.bsky.social · Jan 17

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

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