Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Bloomberg) -- Madison, Wisconsin, was already a thriving media center in 1988 — it boasted two daily newspapers, two University ...

If you’ve read, watched and enjoyed the work of America’s best-known satirical publication The Onion, you might be surprised by how serious it suddenly became earlier this month. So serious, in fact, ...

A March 8 Facebook video (direct link, archive link) from conservative commentator Ben Shapiro shows him reacting to a video of a parent struggling to get their son medical care. “My son does identify ...

UNC is ignoring its policies and law in investigating UNC's student-run late-night variety show Hill After Hours for a recent sketch, a free speech advocate says. | Opinion ...

Since HBO's "Silicon Valley" ended in 2019, TV has been without a timely tech industry satire, even as tech became an ever-more-dominant force in everyone's lives and an even richer target for ...

It’s no secret that America is more divided than ever. While peaceful Thanksgiving dinners were the first to fall, satire is the latest victim of polarization. On the other hand, there has never been ...

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) ...

Satire has been bothering the right more than usual lately. The catch is that it seems they can’t decide if they want to defend it or attack it. First, the right-wing satirical site The Babylon Bee, a ...

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 ...

Alec Baldwin as Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump and Kate McKinnon as Democratic Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton during the "Debate Cold Open" sketch on October 1, 2016. U.S.

Satire is and has always been a difficult media genre to write. If a film or TV show goes too subtle in its approach, it’s often criticized as toothless or not savage enough. But go too big and there ...