satire

SATIRE: Reimagining the Conservative leader’s recent press conference—and the dogged effort to get him to utter two simple words

If Tories are looking for a middle-aged male leader who took law at Dal, followed his dad into politics, served in the Harper cabinet, likes pipelines, struggles with French and recognizes Pride Month, we have wonderful news

Marie-Danielle Smith: The PM appeared before committee for the first time. Here is an approximation of what happened, in language we can all understand.

Sacha Baron Cohen’s new series cracks open a core illusion of American democracy—that it, and the ’popular will,’ even exists at all

Armando Iannucci’s ’Death of Stalin’ achieves the remarkable: hilariously skewering a murderous dictator. But even he thinks Trump may reveal comedy’s limits

Satire made in The Daily Show’s image made politics seem like entertainment, lulling viewers and voters into complacency

How Mexico’s version of ’The Onion’ has became one of the most scathing critics of a corrupt ruling class

Quotes and ideas on satire and free press in the aftermath of the Paris attacks on Charlie Hebdo

Facebook’s ’satire tag’ is just the latest, saddest defanging of the comedic form, lowering the bar for all

Sensitivity only reinforces stereotype of Muslims as violent