Revisiting Sandesam after Sreenivasan’s death reveals why the 1991 film remains one of Malayalam cinema’s sharpest political satires.

Comedian Jo Koy’s monologue during Monday night’s Golden Globe Awards show clearly fell flat, and not just because he took a cheap shot at Taylor Swift. The audience (and armchair reviewers online) ...

Tirades in capitalization, AI meme wars, self-proclamations of greatness, name-calling, deepfakes and slews of hyperbole — parody is cavorting around the Governor Newsom Press Office account on X. And ...

Comedy and music have long served as powerful mediums for addressing societal issues. Throughout history, these art forms have been used to critique and expose the flaws in political systems. Greek ...

Sreenivasan, the renowned Malayalam actor, writer, and director, passed away at 69, leaving a legacy of political and social ...

The reason there is very little humorous and biting political satire today is that Americans are far too politically sensitive (“Is political satire a dead art in America?,” Jan. 10). We have become ...

In this year's WSJ. Magazine Innovators Issue, the long-running late-night sketch comedy/music series was not only the comedy cover stars but also the focus of an in-depth behind-the-scenes look.

Sitting in the audience of Selina Fillinger’s raucous political farce “POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive,” on stage at Dobama Theatre in Cleveland Heights, ...

In the new HBO limited series The Regime, Kate Winslet plays Elena Vernham, the autocratic ruler of a small nation located somewhere in “Middle Europe.” Most of the action takes place inside Elena’s ...

After 10 years, the award-winning comics website and independent publisher The Nib is shutting down this summer. Over the last decade, The Nib has been a prominent hub for comics journalists, ...