We so much enjoyed talking to Leigh about this delightful novel, the state of satiric literacy, what BookTok is doing to the publishing industry & the ways we read & the best way to celebrate Halloween 👻 #halloween #books #authorinterview #satire

🚨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. Listen: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e... #Halloween #satire #gothic

🚨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

🚨 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/...

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

🚨 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

🚨 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

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

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: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon... #comedystudies #satire #talkaboutsatire

🚨 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

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.

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

🚨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

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

🚨 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 🥔

📢 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

🚨 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

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

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...

"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

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

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

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 😆

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

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... t.co/iSKtvTza5N

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": t.co/JgiSHtnffn

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: t.co/FE4bjiILtC

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: t.co/VLIdyoSUle

From the archives... last year's Christmas special, featuring our own satirical take of the festive family feature film "Elf", reimagined here as "Satyre": t.co/NK295OUtEe

Is #Saltburn satire, and if so, what it supposed to be a satire of? Jo & I take a deep dive into this year's most divisive film to find out. Also: Xmas Dickens, a tribute to a Christmas classic, chat about #TheCrown & #Pandemonium, & Jo's poignant reflections on the hyperreality of Jack Wills.

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... spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/8zN1gpLfGFb #TalkAboutSatire

A thread of episodes from 2023 🧵

EP57. Snark Academia: Satire on Campus Inspired by the new Nic Cage's Dream Scenario & the return of #Frasier (set partly at Harvard), Jo & @elementaladam.bsky.social take a deep dive into the perplexing world of campus satire: t.co/GVmqTC737U

This is the podcast where once a month Drs Jo Waugh & Adam Smith talk about the form, function, future & history of satire in desperate bid to amass quantifiable "REF" impact for their research: t.co/Dwf8Yo79F3