In essence, The Simpsons took a Looney Tunes formula and cranked the dial to eleven. But unlike Bugs and Daffy, whose cartoon ...

Née Clinton Tyree, Skink is a former Florida governor who had waged a quixotic battle against overdevelopment and fought to ...

Fed up with ‘partisan hackery,’ Stewart trumped traditional media for some fans — even with a show that followed ‘puppets ...

The Tony Award-winning Lookingglass Theatre is debuting the new play, "Iraq, But Funny," which follows five generations of Assyrian women — narrated by a British guy. Writer and performer Atra Asdou ...

War is hell—but on television, it can also be pretty funny, as proven by the history of classic TV military comedies. For ...

In Funny Because It’s True: How The Onion Created Modern American News Satire, author Christine Wenc, a member of the earliest incarnation of the staff, describes the pleasure of publishing fake ...

A Scottish women’s charity said Carpenter’s new album cover evokes “tired tropes” of women being “possessions,” while fans ...

The Simpsons villain Mr. Burns is a renowned billionaire who is vile, conceited, and uses darkly humorous language.

Yesterday was International Joke Day, and we’re recalling some of our best gags and the comedians who made us chortle.

Created by Mike Judge, John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky, Silicon Valley had the luxury of presenting that reality with sharp humour, wit, and a kind of levity that Jesse Armstrong’s Mountainhead does ...

Ben Collins has overseen the comeback of a print edition of 'The Onion' over the past year and pledges that it will continue ...

Newspaper reporters were once powerful enough to topple a government using only their typewriters. Watergate sent countless ...