Hammerhead Enterprises, Inc., Ronald Pramschufer, and Robert Johnson v. Stanley Brezenoff, Mayor and City Council, and the City of New York

IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge:

Social and political satire have long held a prominent place in the American literary landscape. From the witticisms of Benjamin Franklin to the pungent rhetoric of H.L. Mencken, our nation has been blessed with skilled linguistic craftsmen whose barbs and aphorisms have shaped the course of public debate. Nor have words provided the only medium for biting criticism of establishment shibboleths. Filmmakers like Preston Sturges have lambasted our most sacred institutions and modern newspaper readers daily have taken delight in the trenchant cartoons of Garry…