Mark Twain, our first post-modernist, even took the time to satirize the experience in Innocents Abroad.

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But through a combination of lowdown parody and soapsmanship, Hoffman and company satirize the seemingly unsatirizable.

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El Infierno is a dark comedy that doesn't so much glorify the drug world as it does satirize the politics surrounding it.

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Solution No. 1: The main character would either teach or take a yoga class, and I'd do my best to satirize some aspect of yoga culture.

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"The intention is to satirize not Barack Obama and Michelle Obama, but, in fact, to hold a pretty harsh light up to the rumors, innuendos, lies about the Obamas that have come up that they are somehow insufficiently patriotic or soft on terrorism, " he says.

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