Former journalist and Emmy-winning TV writer Cord Jefferson’s directorial debut, “American Fiction,” is a social satire that wields a scalpel, not a cleaving broadsword, as it surgically slices through the many hypocrisies of the culture industry at ...

Recently, I read an LA Times article quoting a statement about political satire and free speech made in 2020 by Brendan Carr, the current chairman of the Federal Communications Co

What is the role of humor at a time of war? Well, that's a question Israeli and Arab comedians and writers are grappling with now during the Hamas-Israel war. NPR's Daniel Estrin reports on the ways they're embracing satire to express their grief and anger ...

In 1941, The Review staff reinvented itself as The Orange Peel. It was an instant hit with students, and by the 1950s, The Peel had fully hit its stride. Don Addis, a student cartoonist who later became a celebrated editorial artist, filled the covers with work that gave the magazine a distinct edge.

Alec Baldwin as Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump and Kate McKinnon as Democratic Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton during the "Debate Cold Open" sketch on October 1, 2016. U.S. presidents have always been ripe for parody, like bull’s ...

In the last few months, I've gotten a flood of emails from readers suggesting stories about Al Franken and his follies. This vein could be a rich one to mine, given Franken's years of motor-mouthing on Saturday Night Live and Air America Radio, and his ...

Soon after Stephen Colbert landed "The Late Show" he welcomed tycoon Donald Trump as a guest and did something shocking — he apologized. "I said a few things about you over the years that, that are, you know, in polite company, perhaps, are unforgivable ...

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 parts: first featuring Perry as a sexy Rosie the ...