SATIRE: Reimagining the Conservative leader’s recent press conference—and the dogged effort to get him to utter two simple words
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And the winner is O’Toole! But wait .. isn’t that MacKay?
If Tories are looking for a middle-aged male leader who took law at Dal, followed his dad into politics, served in the Harper cabinet, likes pipelines, struggles with French and recognizes Pride Month, we have wonderful news
Prime Minister, how much broccoli did your family eat? In detail!
Marie-Danielle Smith: The PM appeared before committee for the first time. Here is an approximation of what happened, in language we can all understand.
There’s a deep, dark joke at the heart of Sacha Baron Cohen’s ‘Who Is America?’
Sacha Baron Cohen’s new series cracks open a core illusion of American democracy—that it, and the ‘popular will,’ even exists at all
Has Donald Trump caused an existential crisis for political satire?
Armando Iannucci’s ‘Death of Stalin’ achieves the remarkable: hilariously skewering a murderous dictator. But even he thinks Trump may reveal comedy’s limits
How political satire let Americans down in the U.S. election
Satire made in The Daily Show’s image made politics seem like entertainment, lulling viewers and voters into complacency
In Mexico, where truth is stranger than fiction, satirists are king
How Mexico’s version of ‘The Onion’ has became one of the most scathing critics of a corrupt ruling class
Shared around the world: On satire, words, and freedom of the press
Quotes and ideas on satire and free press in the aftermath of the Paris attacks on Charlie Hebdo
Attention, attention: Satire alert. Please insert laugh here.
Facebook’s ‘satire tag’ is just the latest, saddest defanging of the comedic form, lowering the bar for all
Universities shouldn’t censor satire of Islam
Sensitivity only reinforces stereotype of Muslims as violent