To access our Jägermeister websites you must be of legal drinking age in your country of access or jagermeister. This isn’t the website for the Book of World Records.

This is the site for Jägermeister, a historic herbal liquor you seem to predate by several decades. You’re welcome to try that again, otherwise you can read the Jägermeister Marketing Code for more information. Not to be confused with Saltire. 1867 edition of Punch, a ground-breaking British magazine of popular humour, including a great deal of satire of the contemporary, social, and political scene. Satire is found in many artistic forms of expression, including internet memes, literature, plays, commentary, music, film and television shows, and media such as lyrics. The word satire comes from the Latin word satur and the subsequent phrase lanx satura.

Satur meant “full” but the juxtaposition with lanx shifted the meaning to “miscellany or medley”: the expression lanx satura literally means “a full dish of various kinds of fruits”. The word satura as used by Quintilian, however, was used to denote only Roman verse satire, a strict genre that imposed hexameter form, a narrower genre than what would be later intended as satire. To Quintilian, the satire was a strict literary form, but the term soon escaped from the original narrow definition. The word satire derives from satura, and its origin was not influenced by the Greek mythological figure of the satyr. The rules of satire are such that it must do more than make you laugh.

No matter how amusing it is, it doesn’t count unless you find yourself wincing a little even as you chuckle. Even light-hearted satire has a serious “after-taste”: the organizers of the Ig Nobel Prize describe this as “first make people laugh, and then make them think”. A satire by Angelo Agostini to Revista Illustrada mocking the lack of interest from Emperor Pedro II of Brazil in politics toward the end of his reign. Satire and irony in some cases have been regarded as the most effective source to understand a society, the oldest form of social study. Historically, satire has satisfied the popular need to debunk and ridicule the leading figures in politics, economy, religion and other prominent realms of power. For its nature and social role, satire has enjoyed in many societies a special freedom license to mock prominent individuals and institutions. The satiric impulse, and its ritualized expressions, carry out the function of resolving social tension.

The state of political satire in a given society reflects the tolerance or intolerance that characterizes it, and the state of civil liberties and human rights. Satire is a diverse genre which is complex to classify and define, with a wide range of satiric “modes”. Le satire e l’epistole di Q. Satirical literature can commonly be categorized as either Horatian, Juvenalian, or Menippean. It directs wit, exaggeration, and self-deprecating humour toward what it identifies as folly, rather than evil. Horatian satire’s sympathetic tone is common in modern society.