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{{Infobox Newspaper |
name = Private Eye |
image = [[Image:Private Eye Cover.jpg|thumbnail|centre|200px|[[4 March]] [[2005]] cover of ''Private Eye''. This is a typical example of the magazine's front cover.  The caption refers to the wedding of [[Charles, Prince of Wales|Prince Charles]] and [[Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall|Camilla Parker-Bowles]].]] |
type = Fortnightly [[satire|satirical]] <BR> [[magazine]]-newspaper |
format = [[Magazine]] |
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* ''[[Supermodel]]s'' &ndash; [[Neil Kerber]] satirising their lifestyle &ndash; the characters are infeasibly thin
* ''The Commuters'' (defunct) &ndash; Grizelda - follows the efforts of two commuters to get a train to work.
* ''It's Grim Up North London'' &ndash; Knife & Packer satire about [[Islington]] trendies
* ''Young British Artists'' &ndash; Birch
 -: a spoof of artists such as "Tracey" ([[Tracey Emin|Emin]]) and "Damien" ([[Damien Hirst|Hirst]]).
* ''Off Your Trolley'' (defunct) &ndash; Reeve & Way -: set in an NHS hospital
* ''Apparently'' &ndash; Mike Barfield
* ''The Premiersh*ts'' &ndash; [[Paul Wood (cartoonist)]] -: about the state of professional football and footballers
* ''Celeb'' &ndash; [[Charles Peattie]] and [[Mark Warren (cartoonist)|Mark Warren]]
* ''Snipcock & Tweed'' &ndash; [[Nick Newman]] - two book publishers
* ''The Directors'' &ndash; Dredge & Rigg &ndash; comments on the excesses of boardroom [[wikt:fat cat|fat cat]]s
* ''[[The Cloggies]]'' (defunct) &ndash; [[Bill Tidy]] &ndash;: an everyday story of [[clog-dancing]] folk
* ''Hom Sap'' (defunct) &ndash; [[David Austin (cartoonist)|Austin]]
* ''Scenes you seldom see'' &ndash; [[Barry Fantoni]]
* ''[[Battle for Britain (Private Eye)|Battle for Britain]]'' (defunct) &ndash; a satire of British politics (1983-1987) in terms of [[World War II]]
* ''EUphemisms'' &ndash; Ffeatures a [[European Union]] (EU) official making a statement, with the caption giving what it means in real terms, generally depicting the EU in a negative light. An example:, a French Minister (indicated by the French Flag behind him) declaring "The Euro is not a failure" with the caption reading "I'm using the word "not" in its loosest possible sense".
* ''[[Barry McKenzie]]'' (defunct) &ndash; was a very popular strip in the mid-Sixties detailing the adventures of an expatriate [[Aussie]] at large in [[Earl's Court]] and elsewhere, written by [[Barry Humphries]] (aka [[Dame Edna Everage]]) and drawn by [[Nicholas Garland]], later a political cartoonist in the heavyweight dailies.
* ''Dave Snooty'' -&ndash;  Aa recent addition to the magazine. Drawn in the style of ''[[The Beano]]'', it parodies [[David Cameron]] as “"Dave Snooty”" (a reference to the ''Beano'' character ‘’"Lord Snooty’’ from [[The Beano]]);") who ends up involved in all kinds of public schoolboy-type antics (Ooften involving members of his [[shadow cabinet]]). 
* ''The Broon-ites'' - A&ndash; a parody of Scottish cartoon strip [[The Broons]], featuring Gordon Brown and his close associates. The speechbubbles are written in broad Scots dialect.
* ''Global Warming: The Plus Side'' - A&ndash; a satire of the effects of global warming, suggesting mock "positive" impacts of the phenomena, such as bus-sized marrows in village vegetable competitions, vastly decreased fossil prices due to melting permafrost, and the profligaration of British citrus orchards.
* ''Meet the Clintstones -&ndash; The Prehistoric First Family'' - D&ndash; drawn in the style of ''[[The Flintstones]]'', this is a parody of [[Bill Clinton|Bill]] and [[Hillary Clinton]] during the [[United States presidential election, 2008]].
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Additionally, currently, and in the past, it has used the work of [[Ralph Steadman]], [[Wally Fawkes]], [[Timothy Birdsall]], [[Martin Honeysett]], [[Willie Rushton]], [[Gerald Scarfe]], [[Bill Tidy]], [[Robert Thompson (cartoonist)|Robert Thompson]], [[Ken Pyne]], Geoff Thompson, "Jerodo", [[Ed McLauchlan]], "Pearsall", [[Kevin Woodcock]], [[Brian Bagnall]] and [[Kathryn Lamb]].

==Frequent targets for parody and satire==
{{main|List of people and organisations frequently parodied by Private Eye}}

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