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.

In our digital times as we are inundated with YouTube videos, memes and social media, satire is everywhere, but it can be more damaging to people's reputations than direct criticism, according to new ...

Recent releases like “American Fiction” and “The American Society of Magical Negroes” have used absurdist humor to examine race. But they have also depicted narrow views of Blackness. By Maya Phillips ...

Political satire, it wasn’t. The headlines from CNN, The Hollywood Reporter and many other media outlets — “‘SNL’ Takes Aim at Pro-Palestine Campus Protesters in Cold Open” reported The Daily Beast — ...

York St John University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. And yet, Austen, like many other women writers of the period such as Frances Burney, Eliza Haywood and Mary Robinson, are ...

What is the role of humor at a time of war? Well, that's a question Israeli and Arab comedians and writers are grappling with now during the Hamas-Israel war. NPR's Daniel Estrin reports on the ways ...

Some TV shows catch on because they are great art. Others catch on because they offer soothing distractions from a hectic world. And some catch on because they cause people to text their friends, in a ...