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 ...

The reason there is very little humorous and biting political satire today is that Americans are far too politically sensitive (“Is political satire a dead art in America?,” Jan. 10). We have become ...

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 ...

Facebook must unblock a satirical image of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz that’s based on the “Dumb and Dumber” movie poster, according to a Wednesday ruling from parent company Meta’s Oversight Board.

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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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 ...

His much-ballyhooed presidential candidacy may be over before it truly begins if the skater community has anything to say about it. Comedy Gold? Laffster Wants You To Discover The Internet’s Funniest ...

This post is written by Apoorva Thakur, junior research assistant at the Department of Psychology, Monk Prayogshala, Mumbai, India. Humor, specifically political humor, serves a purpose. It can be a ...

An illustration of Abu Abraham by Manjul at Newslaundy. I can’t really claim I had a well-developed political understanding at the age of six years when the Emergency was imposed by Prime Minister ...