In a National Rifle Association (NRA) TV ad from February of this year a man stands in front of a TV screen that airs a series of clips. Among them is a shot of John Oliver saying the words “National ...

As the trial of alleged accomplices to the attack on Charlie Hebdo recently got underway in Paris, the magazine republished caricatures of the Prophet Muhammed. It was a defiant act. The same images ...

“I was just kidding,” is probably one of the most common refrains uttered when someone gets busted. Even President Donald Trump tried to back out of his infamous “pussy grabbing” comment saying it had ...

With shows like “The Chair,” a fresh group of storytellers are using college life to explore — and lampoon — privilege and identity. A photo collage created with images from “The Chair” (2021) as part ...

Horror movies have always been one of the greatest outlets for satire. The genre plays into this literary element because it depends on keeping up-to-date with the pulse of society to best capture ...

If lampooning was a threat to national security, defence, reputation and India’s foreign relations, the first Prime Minister of the country, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru would have desisted from telling ...

Half-baked thoughts, then, toward an AWP presentation that won’t be: Jokes, the good Dr. Freud said famously, are often “hostile.” (That, or obscene: the jokes of “exposure.”) Aggressiveness, satire, ...

This article is the result of a collaboration between TPM members and journalism graduate students at NYU. Over the past several months, NYU students from 10 different countries solicited the help of ...