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

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

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) ...

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, ...

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 — ...

The show takes place in a fictional, unnamed country in the hilariously vague “Middle Europe.” It’s close to Germany, has a pastiche of cultural practices, and its main exports are cobalt and ...

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 ...

"With the climate emergency having escalated a great deal, Adam McKay has decided to make his next directorial project a climate related one," said a spokesperson for McKay. By Mia Galuppo Senior ...

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 ...

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An illustration of Abu Abraham by Manjul at Newslaundy. I can’t really claim I had a well-developed political understanding at the age of six years when the Emergency was imposed by Prime Minister ...