Alexander Rose, a senior correspondent for Canada’s National Post, takes a scholarly look at political humor over the ages. From rural Chinese peasants lampooning village leaders to scatological ...

It’s hard to imagine that there would have been snarky jokes and memes during the assassinations of John F. Kennedy or his brother Robert. Making light of the tragic event in Pennsylvania over the ...

This post is written by Apoorva Thakur, junior research assistant at the Department of Psychology, Monk Prayogshala, Mumbai, India. Humor, specifically political humor, serves a purpose. It can be a ...

Veteran comic Conan O’Brien quipped President Trump’s "greatest crime" was inspiring terrible political jokes about him that ruined the landscape in a podcast interview this week. Best-known for his ...

The recent debate about school vouchers in the latest Pennsylvania budget meltdown fell along predictable lines: Democrats did not like a program that would have used public money to fund private ...

Jay Leno attends the 2023 Rodeo Drive Concours D'Elegance at Rodeo Drive & Wilshire Boulevard on June 18, 2023 in Beverly Hills, California (Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images) Jay Leno has said for years ...

On one hand, of course Donald Trump’s campaign can feature anyone they’d like at their own rally. On the other hand, if that person tells jokes that target minority groups in disparaging ways — ...

In ‘Wanda Sykes: I’m an Entertainer,’ the Emmy winner gets back to her roots with a Netflix hour that skewers the personal and the political. By Degen Pener Deputy Editor In your Netflix special, you ...

Shippensburg University political scientist Dagnes (Politics on Demand) interviewed a range of jokesters, from stand-up-comedian Lewis Black to writers for Saturday Night Live and The Daily Show, for ...

The world of late night TV was thrown into sudden upheaval when CBS announced The Late Show’s cancellation, which sparked shocked reactions from Hollywood celebs, and was soon followed by the FCC’s ...