A March 8 Facebook video (direct link, archive link) from conservative commentator Ben Shapiro shows him reacting to a video of a parent struggling to get their son medical care. “My son does identify ...

The Righteous Gemstones is HBO’s biting satire on evangelical megachurches, and it’s a must-watch comedy series for a serious weekend binge.

The difference between real news and satire is often the date of publication. This unfortunate reality is bad for the average ...

Few observers of global discourse range as widely as Elnathan John, the novelist, satirist, and lawyer who frequently participates online and off in conversations about art, politics, and culture ...

If you’ve read, watched and enjoyed the work of America’s best-known satirical publication The Onion, you might be surprised by how serious it suddenly became earlier this month. So serious, in fact, ...

On July 11, Katy Perry released “Woman’s World,” her first single off the forthcoming 143, her first album in four years. Along with the song was the release of a music video, which is broken into two ...

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 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) ...