He could be gently satirical about certain American myths.

Mr. Moodysson's attitude toward these idealists is at once affectionate and gently satirical.

He did a gently satirical version of Mr. Hope's standup style.

The New York Times, however, found the film "gently satirical" with the use of real clips from Shafer's various talk show appearances creating a "tone of vertiginous loopiness."

Mr. Lynn, a clever English film maker with a gently satirical eye for arch-Americana, knows just how to make the lone tumbleweed blow across the road in this cowboy town.

Majesty 2 returns to the gently satirical, high fantasy world of Ardania featured in the original, a magical realm populated by elves, gnomes, dwarves and various monsters, as well as humans.

And his gently satirical takes on the lunch-truck business and on a certain kind of college culture, circa 1982, are full of funny, dead-on observations.

Gustave Doré's illustrated version (see above) is well known for capturing the gently satirical tone of the story.

Of course, even the title of the show is gently satirical.