May 4 is World Laughter Day, an invention of Madan Kataria, an Indian doctor and yoga practioner who has founded an international network of laughter clubs. These clubs promote the idea that laughter ...

Within the modern media landscape, the realm of opinion and talk radio shows has largely veered right, in the style of Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. Meanwhile, popular political satire and comedy ...

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The Times made the claims in a feature, "For Political Cartoonists, the Irony Was That Facebook Didn’t Recognize Irony," that was published on Friday. The report detailed how Facebook has had trouble ...

Alec Baldwin as Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump and Kate McKinnon as Democratic Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton during the "Debate Cold Open" sketch on October 1, 2016. U.S.

In the days following the attacks of 9/11/2001, no one wanted to laugh. Jon Stewart burst into tears as host of “The Daily Show” and Bill Maher got fired from ABC for suggesting that you could call ...

As Facebook has become more active at moderating political speech, it has had trouble dealing with satire. Matt Bors, a left-leaning cartoonist who runs a site called The Nib, gets most of his traffic ...

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Irony Curtain: From Matryoskha With Love is a Cold War satire in the form of an adventure game. The Adventure genre has largely been dominated by Telltale Games and similar episodic releases in recent ...