"I found the book, which is serious in tone, essentially a funny satire, and that's how I'm treating it."

John Wakeman regarded it as a "subtle and often very funny satire".

If "Hero" had stopped there, it would have been a bitterly funny satire.

Somehow this combination makes for a wonderfully funny and goofy satire about a guy who looks so much like the President he takes over his job.

"Death and the Penguin" is an often funny satire about complementary lonelinesses.

This very funny social satire is shaped by the writer and director's low-keyed persona.

His scene can't last more than a minute, but it may be the film's most howlingly funny satire.

It is also, midway into the piece, a terrifically funny satire on ballet virtuosity.

An irreverently funny satire, "The Job" will vanish again in two weeks to make way for a new series, and may not return.

And that's a shame, because this is a beautifully cast, consistently funny satire.