Comedian Jo Koy’s monologue during Monday night’s Golden Globe Awards show clearly fell flat, and not just because he took a cheap shot at Taylor Swift. The audience (and armchair reviewers online) ...

Tirades in capitalization, AI meme wars, self-proclamations of greatness, name-calling, deepfakes and slews of hyperbole — parody is cavorting around the Governor Newsom Press Office account on X. And ...

Political satire, it wasn’t. The headlines from CNN, The Hollywood Reporter and many other media outlets — “‘SNL’ Takes Aim at Pro-Palestine Campus Protesters in Cold Open” reported The Daily Beast — ...

Director Bill Banowsky’s fascinating documentary A Savage Art: The Life & Cartoons of Pat Oliphant, tracks both the work of ...

Early reviewers of “The Unfolding” expressed their divided feelings about the novel. NOT whether it is first rate or not — everyone admires A.M. Homes’ work and especially this novel — but rather how ...

In the new HBO limited series The Regime, Kate Winslet plays Elena Vernham, the autocratic ruler of a small nation located somewhere in “Middle Europe.” Most of the action takes place inside Elena’s ...

Can a joke on late-night television actually influence how millions perceive a political leader? That was the question after ...

Buffalo Theatre Ensemble’s well-timed revival of “The Outsider” accomplishes several things. It delivers laughs, evidenced by the enthusiastic response from the audience on opening night. It explains ...

What does a cranky attorney know about funny? Scarsdale, N.Y.: To Alan Dershowitz (“50 years of ‘SNL’ is just not funny,” op-ed, Feb. 20): NYC is full of park benches with elderly men baying at the ...

Editor's Note: This essay appeared in Cognoscenti's newsletter of ideas and opinions, delivered weekly on Sundays. Sometimes I wonder what it’s like to edit satire these days, when the source material ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson defended a bizarre video shared by Donald Trump that showed the president bombing “No Kings” ...