Comedian Jo Koy’s monologue during Monday night’s Golden Globe Awards show clearly fell flat, and not just because he took a cheap shot at Taylor Swift. The audience (and armchair reviewers online) ...

Tirades in capitalization, AI meme wars, self-proclamations of greatness, name-calling, deepfakes and slews of hyperbole — parody is cavorting around the Governor Newsom Press Office account on X. And ...

Political satire has been a longstanding theme in media. Recently, I read an LA Times article quoting a statement about political satire and free speech made in 2020 by Brendan Carr, the current ...

I used to check the news of the day when I woke up in the morning. I no longer do. I also don’t check it right before sleep. Why start or end the day with reports of book bannings, attempts to control ...

Political satire, it wasn’t. The headlines from CNN, The Hollywood Reporter and many other media outlets — “‘SNL’ Takes Aim at Pro-Palestine Campus Protesters in Cold Open” reported The Daily Beast — ...

A collection of 1 million political cartoons is headed to the UCLA Library, hailing from nearly 60 countries in 30 languages, and spanning more than 330 years. Why now: The $4.2-million collection was ...

From Ramy Youssef’s latest to a long-running series from Seth MacFarlane, these shows tackle the hot topics of their time. By Maya Phillips The state of American politics can feel so exaggerated and ...

Harry Shearer, the comedian, writer, actor (This Is Spinal Tap) and ubiquitous voice on The Simpsons, ventures into political satire in his new album, Songs of the Bushmen (Courgette Records). The CD ...

Imagine if the U.S. military had created a lifelike simulation of fictional Iraqi towns on U.S. soil. They had done so in order to acclimatize American soldiers to both the violence and culture of the ...

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WHAT'S SO FUNNY: Photograph by Ajaya Joshi of a rally at Khula Manch on page 1 of Nepali Times #295 (28 April-4 May 2006) showing the power of ridicule as resistance. The Soviets had just invaded ...

PARK CITY, Utah (Hollywood Reporter) - You laugh mightily at the British political satire "In the Loop," which surveys the frantic machinations of British and American government ministers, advisers, ...