Welcome to our website. The website is intended to help any students of
satire, giving you an idea of how to write satire, the history of satire and hopefully where you can get some of your work published online. This website will be continually added to on a regular basis providing you with more fact than fiction, whereever possible.
Please get started by checking out the articles. Below is a collection of current "Satire" stories taken from various websites.
Brief definition of humor and satire, its origins and a few good examples of satire and why it is so important, historically as well as today.
A brief history of satire, including its greek and roman roots from Aeschylus to Horace.
Quick guide to writing satire. In this part, how to decide what type of satire writer you want to be, and to what level, you are interested in writing.
Quick guide to writing satire. In this part, choosing your subject and beginning the process.
A brief list of websites which allow you to submit your work online.
You might think the recent phemonena of 'dwarf throwing' as something shocking, but this is nothing compared to what used to go on with the Anti-Popes of Avignon.
Bored and cheesed off with not being the real Pope, the Anti-Popes of the 13th and 14th century used to partake in a bit of cardinal chucking. This entailed literally throwing diminutive senior clerics using a catapult at a massive ecclesiatical 'dart board'. A bull's eye was known as a monk's tonsure and if you missed altogether of course you got 'nun'. This is also why bishops hats are so sharp and pointy, just in case a pope pops in and wants a bit of a 'chuck'.
[date: 10-05-2008]
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - Add another feather to the crown of the King of All Media, Howard Stern: Environmentalist. After signing a three-year half a billion contract with EPA, the Environmental Protection Agency; Stern
[from: The Spoof, date: 20-12-2007]
Jon Swift, the excellent satirist, has asked us to submit TNOYF’s best post of 2007 for inclusion in an end of the year round-up. We thought it would make sense to open this up..
[from: The Nose On Your Face, date: 20-12-2007]
Award winning actor and love child of Sammy Davis Junior and Cher, Tom Hanks, is set to take on his most challenging role to date. It is reported that Hanks has signed up to 'Wife..
[from: The Spoof, date: 20-12-2007]
DALLAS - Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo blamed his poor performance Sunday on looking at Jessica Simpson's breasts instead of looking for his receivers.
[from: The Spoof, date: 20-12-2007]
Milan, Italy - Kaka, as a child growing up the improvised slums of Brazil, struggled to overcome the handicap of his name. Jeered by his schoolmates and neighborhood kids alike, Kaka, ironically was always last...
[from: The Spoof, date: 20-12-2007]
Hello and good day. We must interrupt Christine Amanpour’s riveting docudrama “You Say Terrorist, We Say Freedom Fighter” to allow presidential candidate John Edwards an opportunity to address today’s breaking story from the National
[from: The Nose On Your Face, date: 20-12-2007]
Every year, America looks to Iowa for one reason, and one reason alone. The nation relies on the good people of the "Caucus Me" state to whittle the presidential field down to a handful of...
[from: Brainsnap, date: 20-12-2007]
The head of Iraq's Kurdish regional government has refused to meet with the US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice. US politicians have accused the Kurds of shunning her due to American support...
[from: The Spoof, date: 20-12-2007]
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