The Statesman is a very funny satire, but "funny peculiar" rather than "funny ha ha". A deliberately anachronistic production, that looks at the impact of controlled speech, and the inevitable ...
A small crew of do-gooders get stranded in the Romanian backwoods and gradually come to question just how much good they're willing to do. A lot gets lost in Radu Muntean‘s fantastic “Întregalde.” ...
Jeffrey Wright’s Thelonious “Monk” Ellison is at the end of his rope at the beginning of “ American Fiction, ” a crowd-pleaser that’s both funny and smart in its satire of race, media, artists, ...
Aila Slisco is a Newsweek night reporter based in New York. Her focus is on reporting national politics, where she has covered the 2020 and 2022 elections, the impeachments of Donald Trump and ...
Streaming ‘Don’t Look Up’ is a darkly funny satire that resonates in the COVID-19 era Adam McKay's star-studded romp targets politicians, the media, big tech, and human nature itself. Jonah Hill, ...
Boston comedians share the funny side of popular culture in our regular segment, "Funny Stuff." In this week's edition, we're talking about the most serious brand of funny: satire. This segment aired ...