So it was always the satirist, like Juvenal or Martial, represented the audience, and he was going to make fun of the outsider, the person who didn't share that subject status.

Satirist Tom Rielly delivers a wicked parody of the 2006 TED conference, taking down the 100 laptop, the plight of the polar bear, and people who mention, one too many times, that they work at Harvard. Watch for a special moment between Tom and Al Gore.

NEW HAVEN In his classic Fable of the Bees or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits(1724), Bernard Mandeville, the Dutch born British philosopher and satirist, described in verse a prosperous society (of bees) that suddenly chose to make a virtue of austerity, dropping all excess expenditure and extravagant consumption. What then happened?