Senior columnist Abigail Tuscano argues that humor can be a powerful political tool, but only when it hits the right targets.

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) ...

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 ...

For nearly 50 years, NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” has been giving viewers a weekly dose of political satire — who can forget ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sitting in the audience of Selina Fillinger’s raucous political farce “POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive,” on stage at Dobama Theatre in Cleveland Heights, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A federal district court has ruled that two California laws aimed at regulating online political speech are unconstitutional, marking a significant victory for free speech advocates, including the ...