Black American novelists, filmmakers and other writers are using comedy to reveal — and combat — our era’s disturbing political realities. By Adam Bradley LAST SPRING, DURING the Broadway revival of ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: The following column is an example of satire, which is protected under our Constitutional right to publish whatever the heck we want. Don’t waste your time filing unnecessary lawsuits ...

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 ...