Is satire dead?

And how can we lampoon reality when reality is silly enough already?

Derek Blunt, founder of Boshism: Blunt by name, blunt by nature

When I was at university I had a regular column in the student newspaper. Called The Terry Freedman View, my column comprised articles that were intended to be a light-hearted take on life in general, and academic life in particular. Quite a few of them were festooned with pretty impressive-…