Sreenivasan, the renowned Malayalam actor, writer, and director, passed away at 69, leaving a legacy of political and social ...
With the power of his razor-sharp humor, pioneering political satirist Bassem Youssef left audiences reeling with the effect ...
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) ...
Joanna Orland is a pop culture journalist and award-winning sound designer for video games. Her career in the Games Industry began in 2005 at EA Criterion. She later worked in the Creative Services ...
Comedy and music have long served as powerful mediums for addressing societal issues. Throughout history, these art forms have been used to critique and expose the flaws in political systems. Greek ...
"With the climate emergency having escalated a great deal, Adam McKay has decided to make his next directorial project a climate related one," said a spokesperson for McKay. By Mia Galuppo Senior ...
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 ...
The reason there is very little humorous and biting political satire today is that Americans are far too politically sensitive (“Is political satire a dead art in America?,” Jan. 10). We have become ...
The show takes place in a fictional, unnamed country in the hilariously vague “Middle Europe.” It’s close to Germany, has a pastiche of cultural practices, and its main exports are cobalt and ...
After 10 years, the award-winning comics website and independent publisher The Nib is shutting down this summer. Over the last decade, The Nib has been a prominent hub for comics journalists, ...
A stellar cast can't save James L. Brooks' dramedy in theaters this week. Luckily, there are other choices, including an Alia ...
Kate Winslet is one of our greatest working actors and recently won a well-deserved Emmy for playing a hard-nosed Pennsylvania cop on HBO's Mare of Easttown. Will Tracy wrote for Succession and also ...