Extreme variation from serious to comic, stock character and word play

What this note covers

1. Satire critiques through irony, incongruity and exaggeration
2. Stock characters condense social roles
3. Wordplay and official language can reveal contradiction
4. Extreme tonal variation must be controlled
5. Satirical action can move from type to system
6. Worked satirical key-moment analysis
7. Worked satire: the pothole rebranding ceremony
8. Worked comic escalation: an algorithm interviews its designers

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