Satire is one of the most subjective genres of art it is possible to make. Judging the art of poking fun at a well-known target takes a lot more than getting the joke. Some satirical works are sharp ...

In two recent posts, I touched on both nonverbal and verbal types of formal humor. In this one, I continue our review of the latter category by discussing two styles of humor seen quite regularly in ...

CHRISTIAN CONSERVATIVES do not have a reputation for being funny. The language of the right has more often been outrage, while liberals dominated comedy through shows such as “Politically Incorrect” ...

Almost two decades in development, “White Noise,” a film adaptation on the acclaimed 1985 novel by American author Don DeLillo (“Libra”) arrives, and it is probably doomed at the box-office, in spite ...

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

I have often had occasion to bemoan the sad lot of the satirist in contemporary society. Satire depends for its bite on a discrepancy between the satire and reality. The satirist presents an ...