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) ...

President Trump posts AI-generated deepfake videos showing Hakeem Jeffries in a sombrero. Jeffries calls the videos “racist,” ...

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 — ...

Back in 1940, Charlie Chaplin made a movie called The Great Dictator, a comedy about fascism. In it, he plays a Hitler-like character named Adenoid Hynkel, the authoritarian leader of an imaginary ...

Comedian Trevor Noah has sparked discussion after referencing the recent death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk during a new stand-up performance.

Nothing more American than kicking off a new season of Saturday Night Live with a Puerto Rican legend roasting Fox News, ...

The Statesman is a very funny satire, but "funny peculiar" rather than "funny ha ha". A deliberately anachronistic production, that looks at the impact of controlled speech, and the inevitable ...

Early reviewers of “The Unfolding” expressed their divided feelings about the novel. NOT whether it is first rate or not — everyone admires A.M. Homes’ work and especially this novel — but rather how ...

In the new HBO limited series The Regime, Kate Winslet plays Elena Vernham, the autocratic ruler of a small nation located somewhere in “Middle Europe.” Most of the action takes place inside Elena’s ...

While its popularity and long-standing history seems to be indicative of its political potential, we must not forget that satire has two primary purposes: “to critique and to entertain”. These ...

Satire has always been a potent weapon against tyranny ... What will the rest of us be willing to do in order to stand up to fascism? It’s not a particularly funny question. But satirists have shown ...