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 ...

It’s important to consider how political satire helps defend democracy in ways that go beyond speaking truth to power.

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 ...

Harry Shearer, the comedian, writer, actor (This Is Spinal Tap) and ubiquitous voice on The Simpsons, ventures into political satire in his new album, Songs of the Bushmen (Courgette Records). The CD ...

A news outlet pivoting to print may sound like satire in the digital age. But for The Onion, the U.S.’s 37-year-old satirical news outlet, the gambit is very real — and so is its apparent success.

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, ...

A university that can’t take a joke has a bigger problem than the joke itself. From the 1940s through the early 1960s, UF was home to The Orange Peel, a satirical magazine that skewered campus life ...

What is The Curse about? Showtime describes The Curse as a “genre-bending” series focusing on the relationship between a newly married couple, who are trying to conceive a child while simultaneously ...