Political satire and humour have emerged as influential forces in contemporary media communication, merging critique with entertainment to shape civic discourse. Across television, print, online ...

In two recent posts, I touched on both nonverbal and verbal types of formal humor. In this one, I continue our review of the latter category by discussing two styles of humor seen quite regularly in ...

In this fraught moment, the most absurd voices are the bravest, most honest and most important.

It’s no secret that America is more divided than ever. While peaceful Thanksgiving dinners were the first to fall, satire is the latest victim of polarization. On the other hand, there has never been ...

Just as jokes wear thin by repetition, the return of Mock the Week to TV screens via Freeview channel TLC is unlikely to excite many beyond a small circle of fans. The format is the tried and tested ...

It’s official: The Harris-Biden administration is a joke. And none of us should be laughing. On Monday, Facebook founder and Meta honcho Mark Zuckerberg revealed some unfunny truths in a letter to ...

Following weeks of complaints from students and faculty intervention, the Gorilla Gazette — Mather House’s satire newspaper — has promised to scale back lewd and personal jokes, according to the ...

A black comedy about antisemitism and belief arrives at Manhattan’s Theater for the New City as the Jewish community prepares for the High Holidays and the anniversary of Oct. 7. As the one-year ...

In 1991, a simple line appeared in Broom, a Lithuanian satire and humor journal. “A shortest joke: Communism,” it said. A one-liner to celebrate the collapse of the Soviet Union. Four years since ...