Satire—the coupling of criticism and humor—has been a popular means to add a seemingly lighthearted touch to somewhat sensitive topics. For example, Saturday Night Live parodied quarterback Tom Brady ...

In our digital times as we are inundated with YouTube videos, memes and social media, satire is everywhere, but it can be more damaging to people's reputations than direct criticism, according to new ...

How do you make an idea ripped from the headlines subversive? You hand it to “The Boys” producing team and their songwriter, Christopher Lennertz. Showrunner Eric Kripke was inspired by Fox News ...

Satire, George S. Kaufman famously said, is what closes on Saturday night. Meaning, of course, that it has a limited run because of its intrinsically circumscribed interest. To this, one might add a ...

A funny thing happened when I went to Austin last week. My youngest child, Basil, a junior at the University of Texas, and I ...

The series' fourth episode of its current season premiered Sept. 3, continuing a storyline linking Trump to Satan. Experts said political speech has the highest First Amendment protection and that ...

A reader responds to Renée Loth’s column about banned books, lamenting that she had to explicitly state it was satire.

Once upon a time, the First Amendment right to free speech was a given and not debatable. In 1968, the Smothers Brothers comedy duo sent an apology to President Lyndon B. Johnson after regularly ...

Spinal Tap is back. But 41 years on, the original is still one of the sharpest and most influential comedies ever made.

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 ...