NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Christine Wenc, author of the new book Funny Because It's True: How the Onion Created Modern News Satire. Here's some headlines for you. "Kitten Thinks Of Nothing But ...

Following weeks of complaints from students and faculty intervention, the Gorilla Gazette — Mather House’s satire newspaper — has promised to scale back lewd and personal jokes, according to the ...

Political satire and humour have emerged as influential forces in contemporary media communication, merging critique with entertainment to shape civic discourse. Across television, print, online ...

It’s no secret that America is more divided than ever. While peaceful Thanksgiving dinners were the first to fall, satire is the latest victim of polarization. On the other hand, there has never been ...

What is the role of humor at a time of war? Well, that's a question Israeli and Arab comedians and writers are grappling with now during the Hamas-Israel war. NPR's Daniel Estrin reports on the ways ...

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 ...

This post is written by Apoorva Thakur, junior research assistant at the Department of Psychology, Monk Prayogshala, Mumbai, India. Humor, specifically political humor, serves a purpose. It can be a ...