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 ...

Since Snopes' start in the mid-1990s, our fact-checkers have alerted readers to numerous pieces of satire. That's many decades of "jokes" targeting politicians and celebrities, or putting twists on ...

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 ...

Hollywood loves a navel-gazing satire about the movie business. Audiences do too, when given a good reason, from the upbeat mockery of 1952’s “Singin’ in the Rain,” to the excoriation of a studio ...

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 ...