World News from the BBC Egyptian prosecutors have launched an investigation against a well known television political satirist Bassem Youssef, accusing him of insulting President Mohammed Morsi.
Their headquarters founded in February 1916, was the Cabaret Voltaire, named after the French satirist whose skewering of his own time the Dadaists took as inspiration.
My idea was that we should try to find a really gifted satirist—there must be one to be got somewhere in Italy, surely—and offer to provide the necessary funds.
In Alice's hands, so dexterous in this work, her statuesque friend was becoming as ridiculous as a fine figure of wax left to the mercies of a satirist.