Most great satire takes high aim at those lofty institutions bearing down on us from atop towers of bullshit - bureaucracy, politics, and all your favorite ‘isms - but we’ll get to all that later. To ...

Editor’s note: Our friend Danna Young is a scholar of, among other things, the intersection of entertainment and information — particularly humor’s use within the political landscape and the ways in ...

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 ...

Explore how fandom and memes reshape storytelling, blurring lines between satire and reality in today's culture.

A lot of nuances of writing are lost on the internet -- things such as irony. That's why satirical material such as the writing of Andy Borowitz on the website of The New Yorker magazine has to be ...

Just as only the jester can tell the King the truth, satire performs a vital function in democratic society by using humor to broach taboo subjects, especially in times of crisis, according to a book ...

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 ...

CHRISTIAN CONSERVATIVES do not have a reputation for being funny. The language of the right has more often been outrage, while liberals dominated comedy through shows such as “Politically Incorrect” ...

Alec Baldwin as Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump and Kate McKinnon as Democratic Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton during the "Debate Cold Open" sketch on October 1, 2016. U.S.