Comedian Jim Gaffigan explained to Variety on Thursday why he avoids politics in his stand-up routines, saying audiences want ...

With 11 stand-up specials under his belt, Jim Gaffigan is one of the most prolific comedians this side of George Carlin. His ...

It’s hard to imagine that there would have been snarky jokes and memes during the assassinations of John F. Kennedy or his brother Robert. Making light of the tragic event in Pennsylvania over the ...

Veteran comic Conan O’Brien quipped President Trump’s "greatest crime" was inspiring terrible political jokes about him that ruined the landscape in a podcast interview this week. Best-known for his ...

Alexander Rose, a senior correspondent for Canada’s National Post, takes a scholarly look at political humor over the ages. From rural Chinese peasants lampooning village leaders to scatological ...

In ‘Wanda Sykes: I’m an Entertainer,’ the Emmy winner gets back to her roots with a Netflix hour that skewers the personal and the political. By Degen Pener Deputy Editor In your Netflix special, you ...

On Election Night 1988, I was returning in a small jet to New York from Boston, where I had just emceed Michael Dukakis’ “victory” party. Looking down at the lights of a New England town shimmering ...

It’s always tough getting people interested in party politics in Brazil, a nation where ideology is non-existent, political parties stand for little more than organized power grabs, and where, ...

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 ...

Does Humor Belong in Music?” Whatever our particular take on the matter, the truth is music and laughter have long shared the ...