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 comedies are the perfect way to deal with topical issues under the guise of absurdist comedy, and movies like Duck ...

Alexander Payne's high school satire "Election" is now on Netflix, and this cult classic dark comedy deserves a spot on your ...

Election is currently available to stream on Netflix. More than two decades after its release, the Reese Witherspoon-led ...

Three cast members of “Veep,” the acclaimed sitcom that captivated audiences with its merciless satire of American politics, ...

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 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 ...

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 — ...

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 ...

What does a cranky attorney know about funny? Scarsdale, N.Y.: To Alan Dershowitz (“50 years of ‘SNL’ is just not funny,” op-ed, Feb. 20): NYC is full of park benches with elderly men baying at the ...

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