There’s a unique pleasure in the political satire. Whether in film or on television, well-wrought satires ask the viewer to think critically about the nature of politics, how power works ...

In terms of SNL's political sketches and who it targets, former writer James Downey shared that the show hitting Republicans harder than the Democrats isn't anything new – and not something ...

Come here for impressions of major political figures ranging from the silly to the sublime, for some deep-cutting satire, or just observational wackiness. When it comes to series that have made an ...

The depiction of Donald Trump’s early years as a real estate developer in The Apprentice has long been generating headlines, and legal threats. With Sebastian Stan taking on the lead role, Ali ...

But their greatest hits came in the form of political satire musicals. There’s the Pulitzer Prize–winning “Of Thee I Sing,” about a president vowing to marry a beauty pageant winner. “Let ’Em Eat Cake ...

Her job as a writer at El Chigüire Bipolar, a wildly popular website for political satire, required her to churn out jokes on a daily basis. But she was dodging tear gas on the way to the office.

Saturday Night Live, the groundbreaking live sketch comedy show created by Toronto-born Lorne Michaels in 1975, has captured multiple generations with its oddball comedy and political satire ...

I think it’s one thing when you have a political satire show that makes fun of a candidate or makes fun of an issue; that’s what those shows are designed to do when they’re on the air and ...

It’s certainly made for these (end) times: a lushly surreal, cynically ticklish goof on the ineffectiveness of political summits ... wryly at the idea of a satire about G-7 leaders set in ...

this is a recipe for political retaliation in the form of frivolous lawsuits. But California’s new laws perhaps affect people who publish satire most of all Satire frequently lampoons ...

But this account of who is and isn't helping is rooted in satire, not reality. The claim originated on the Dunning-Kruger Times, part of the America's Last Line of Defense satirical network.

For 50 years, late-night TV viewers have heard the words "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!" at 11:30 p.m. ET.