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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.

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#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:

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

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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...

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#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:

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#19C #Bronte
June 30, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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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:
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#ComedyStudies #TalkAboutSatire
May 31, 2025 at 10:20 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:
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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
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)

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#satire #comedystudies #talkaboutsatire
March 31, 2025 at 8:50 AM
February 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
🚨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"?

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#ComedyStudies #Satire #ElonMusk #Motherhood #Modernism
February 25, 2025 at 10:27 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:

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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
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
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:

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#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...

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#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:

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#Brontes #19C #18C #YLF2024
January 17, 2024 at 4:36 PM
Christmas 2023...

EP58. Saltburn & The Satireman: A Good Humoured Christmas Episode

Jo & Adam dissect the satire of #Saltburn, reflect on the festive message of Dickens' Pickwick Papers & tell the story of a magical winter's night when one boy's satireman came to life...

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December 23, 2023 at 9:02 AM
And of course, from 2019, our first ever Christmas Special, featuring our first ever sketch ("It's A Satirical Life") & an interview with Creepjoint's Dr Matt Colbeck about their satirical Xmas single "Merry Christmas Ya Filthy Animal":

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December 23, 2023 at 8:59 AM
From Christmas 2020... Featuring an extremely self-indulgent Christmas sketch titled "Karen & Gammon Talk About Salmon" (complete with theme tune) & discussion of that horrid year's failed attempts to make Xmas adverts feel cheerful:

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December 23, 2023 at 8:58 AM
From Christmas 2021... the question of whether a party quacks like a duck, & whether that duck can be satirised, was on our minds as the news of #Partygate was first breaking. We also reviewed Pandemonium by @aiannucci.bsky.social , which is now a west-end show:

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December 23, 2023 at 8:57 AM
From the archives... last year's Christmas special, featuring our own satirical take of the festive family feature film "Elf", reimagined here as "Satyre":

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December 23, 2023 at 8:56 AM
EP58. Saltburn & The Satireman: A Good Humoured Christmas Episode

Jo & Adam dissect the satire of #Saltburn & tell the story of a magical winter's night when one boy's satireman came to life...

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#TalkAboutSatire
December 20, 2023 at 11:05 AM
Episode 57. Snark Academia: Satire on Campus

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December 19, 2023 at 7:52 AM