Category: Satire

Satire uses elements of a prior work to target some other aspect of society, parody uses elements of a prior work to target the prior work itself.

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Pataphysics Lives On!

Inspired by Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi (1896), Trump gets his comeuppance in Germany. Merde!

“‘Monster’s Paradise,’ lampooning US President Donald Trump, has world premiere at Hamburg Opera,” by Ronald Blum, AP News, February 3, 2026.

HAMBURG, Germany (AP) — Tobias Kratzer spoke in disbelief ahead of the world premiere of “Monster’s Paradise” by Olga Neuwirth and Elfriede Jelinek, which features a gluttonous, ravenous, insatiable President-King, lampooning U.S. President Donald Trump.

“The metaphor has become a reality,” the Hamburg State Opera artistic director said in his office Sunday morning. “I’m really hoping in — what is it, eight hours? — the piece is not completely outdated because up until now it has always gone closer and closer to not being a satire but being reality.”

Jelinek, 79 and winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature, collaborated with Neuwirth for the first time in two decades, the Austrian duo combining on a German-language libretto. The 57-year-old Neuwirth won the 2022 Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, three years after she became the first woman composer with a work presented at the Vienna State Opera. Read the whole article here.

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Social Media Compliance Certificates Available Now!

Traveling into or out of the United States (and want to be able to travel without the fear of deportation)? Show the authorities that your online activity from the past five years has been pre-screened and approved.

Print your customizable Social Media Compliance Certificate, by artist Joey Skaggs, and keep it with your passport and other important travel documents.

https://joeyskaggs.com/works/social-media-compliance-certificate/.

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Science is catching up to Joey Skaggs

Been there, done that! Watch Pandora’s Hope movie, which is featured as a hoax-in-progress in Andrea Marini’s Art of the Prank movie.

“Scientists are racing to grow human teeth in the lab,” by Jacopo Prisco, CNN, October 23, 2025.

It’s not surprising that many people fear the dentist. Replacing a tooth often requires invasive surgery and implanting a titanium screw into a patient’s jawbone, then waiting months for that to strengthen into an artificial root, before attaching a crown or cap on top of it.

But research groups around the world are working to find ways to implant or grow real biological teeth in a human jaw. Read the whole article here.

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From the Vault: Joey Skaggs’ 1979 Wall Street Shoe Shine

Dime for a shine? Fuhgeddaboudit!

In 1979, Joey Skaggs, SVA students and friends, make a statement about runaway inflation by charging ten times more than normal for a luxury shoe shine on Wall Street for workers who easily made ten times more than the average person.

Check out the story behind the Wall Street Shoe Shine here.

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Stream “Joey Skaggs: Stop BioPEEP” at Shockfest Adventure through October 31

Catch the October virtual screening of “Joey Skaggs: Stop BioPEEP” at Shockfest Adventure Film Festival.

BioPEEP is an organization that genetically engineers humans to become addicted to specific consumer products — a scheme that turns into a government weapon — until a whistleblower exposes the conspiracy and sparks mass protests.

Ready to find out what’s real and what’s total B.S.? Stream this adventure starting today through October 31, 2025!
GET TICKETS HERE & WATCH THE FILM (in the Documentary section)

Find out more about Stop BioPEEP here
And more about the Joey Skaggs oral history film series here.

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