The New York Times reported in 1939 that Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels terminated the careers of five prominent German comedians. Their crime? Making political jokes about the Nazi regime.

In 18th-century Lancashire, a poor schoolteacher named John Collier reinvented himself as "Tim Bobbin," a cartoonist whose ...

Laughing or seeing the funny side of life is likely a unique gift of human beings. Laughter sounds magical. How do we laugh, and why? Is there a purpose in laughing? Science shows that animals also ...

In late August 2025, a rumor circulated online that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis mobilized the state's National Guard to pick fruit. For example, one Threads user wrote (archived): "DeSantis has ...

This summer, I interned at Fox News in New York City as a truth intern. My job was not to learn how to fairly and accurately report the truth, but how to bend it — I’m beyond lucky to have learned ...

Austria has selected Bernhard Wenger‘s social satire “Peacock” as its entry in the Best International Feature Film category of the 98th Academy Awards. “Peacock” had its world premiere in Venice ...

I like my fictional TV women like I like my coffee — coursing with enough high-caliber force to take down a feral hog, ruin marriages via sapphic adultery, and power boozy brunch after boozy brunch.

“Dr. Strangelove,” “Catch-22,” and “MASH” collide in British journalist Phoebe Greenwood’s blistering debut novel, “Vulture,” a darkly comic, searing satire grounded in historic politics, suffused ...

It was another eventful week in the Trump presidency. The adult cartoon satire “South Park” took aim at Donald Trump’s association with the jet-setting sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Trump’s personal ...

The Anglosphere is cracking down on medical professionals for promoting the sexual binary over gender identity, threatening their licenses for expressing themselves outside the clinic rather than for ...

Brief though his career as an entertainer was, Tom Lehrer inscribed his signature on a brainy, no-holds-barred brand of political and social satire whose influence could be discerned decades later in ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tom Lehrer, the popular and erudite song satirist who lampooned marriage, politics, racism and the Cold War, then largely abandoned his music career to return to teaching math at ...