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

Satire is and has always been a difficult media genre to write. If a film or TV show goes too subtle in its approach, it’s often criticized as toothless or not savage enough. But go too big and there ...

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 ...

Following weeks of complaints from students and faculty intervention, the Gorilla Gazette — Mather House’s satire newspaper — has promised to scale back lewd and personal jokes, according to the ...

Satire used to come in all flavors — silly, savage, and everything in between. I used to love it in all those forms. But lately, it’s gotten stuck in one lane: rich people behaving badly. From The ...

Politics in Asia is getting funnier, but the punchlines are falling flat.

The Onion calls itself “America’s Finest News Source.” It is a statement that, like most everything else The Onion writes, is satirical. While its content is satirical, its journey from a college ...

Satire is a powerful force for political and cultural change. But is it even possible in a world that outstrips our imagination on a daily—or even hourly—basis? Reason's Nick Gillespie talks with them ...

Starring director Bahman Ark as Bahram, the story centers on a mid-career filmmaker whose entire body of Turkish-Azeri-language work has never been screened in Iran. When his newest film is once again ...