Grotesquerie has long been the language of rebellion. On our screens and in the contemporary art gallery, an era of ugly, ...

Ian MacIntyre, writer and editor for Canadian news satire website The Beaverton, is used to folks occasionally mistaking his ...

Contra Theodor Adorno, it is mercifully untrue that the writing of poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric. Nevertheless, modes of artistic expression do rise and fall as history shuffles from one corridor ...

In two recent posts, I touched on both nonverbal and verbal types of formal humor. In this one, I continue our review of the latter category by discussing two styles of humor seen quite regularly in ...

Set to run through 2026 and timed to coincide with the season 2 premiere of Prime’s popular “Fallout” series, the exhibit is a faithful ode to multiple pockets of nerddom.

In our digital times as we are inundated with YouTube videos, memes and social media, satire is everywhere, but it can be more damaging to people's reputations than direct criticism, according to new ...

The narrator in a recent Lincoln Project ad tells listeners, “In six months, COVID-19 has killed more Americans than any disease in a hundred years. Donald Trump lied about it, rejected science, and ...

This week, a woman who pretended on Youtube to be a right-wing Christian praising God for the Japanese earthquake outed herself as a mere Internet troll--an attention-grabber. The troll, Tamtampamela, ...

A May 19 Threads post (direct link, archive link) shows an image of a rally for former President Donald Trump in which the same attendees appear in multiple places circled in red, indicating the image ...