The books of Brian Castro are postmodern pantomimes that mug the dictates of genre, without ever quite escaping them.

Without taking George Orwell’s assessment that ‘every joke being a tiny revolution’ literally, humour is always to left of the established order.

Now that SNL 50 is well underway, it feels like it's time to look back at all the best moments this momentous season has ...

In a delicious irony connected to its parodies, Mad magazine’s offices at one point were along Madison Avenue — the same street where New York’s famed advertising industry was flourishing in ...

Emulating Terry Pratchett's unique mix of satire, slapstick, and parable requires an emotional ... with there being plenty of ...

My puns only make sense to a select few — and sometimes, I have to translate jokes from one language to another till they lose their comedic effect. The entire point of creating language was to make ...

Including an untranslatable pun, it means roughly Theatrical Conventions ... The piece is a wickedly funny satire on what a recent report has dubbed the pomposity of opera, and simultaneously ...

Touted as Hong Kong's first radiation-disaster blockbuster, Anthony Pun's Cesium Fallout chronicles the political and ...

While it spun off from a short-lived TV show, The Naked Gun has stood the test of time with its locked-and-loaded barrage of ...

That's where the satire finds itself ... Keaton has a cookie that looks like a breast — lots of innuendo and puns follow. MA-TV gets thrown on the screen; it is so suggestive.

Horror-comedy Late Night with the Devil (now streaming on Shudder, AMC+, and Hulu) had a strong opening for an IFC Films release, grossing $2.8 million in its opening weekend. Notably, it made $ ...

Trump is ‘merry prankster’ (another call-back to Ken Kesey). Harris is humorless. Trump is the class clown. Harris is the ...