Satire (genre)

The more I hear Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert talking about their rally scheduled for Saturday on Washington's National Mall, the more I wonder if there is anything that is not a laughing matter in our national life any more.Actually, laughter might...

As anyone who's watched so much as five minutes of the show can tell you, "Modern Family" is no accident. The show's storylines revolve around minor domestic quibbles, like barking dogs and sullen teens. They're reassuring in their familiarity and,......

"The Ask" By Sam Lipsyte Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 296 pages,$25 It would be an inspired feat of academic guerilla terrorism to sabotage every American College Freshman Summer Reading Program by supplanting the usual earnest offerings with Sam Lipsyte's...

When Thomas Edison electrified America in 1882, he hardly could have known the benefits his invention would have for mankind. And, as it turned out, womankind. South Coast Repertory is presenting an exhilarating example of the latter achievement with...

'Bad Touch' and'The Deep End': A double bill of improv. In "Bad Touch," Annoyance ensemble members Rich Sohn and Rebecca Sohn and featured guests explore unsavory topics; "The Deep End" features a rotating cast of Annoyance veterans, teachers and...

In January, we reported that a pilot would be filming in Baltimore for a potential HBO political satire starring "Seinfeld" alum Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Read it here.The pilot is for a projected series tentatively titled "VEEP" about a former senator (Louis-...

“Veep,” the big-name, much-buzzed-about HBO pilot starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, wrapped filming Saturday after six days in and around Baltimore. The producers, who include Louis-Dreyfus, cultural critic Frank Rich and writer-director Armando...

Though "The Book of Mormon," which opened Thursday at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre, is boisterously outrageous, it relies on humor that is nostalgic, harking back to classic routines refurbished with more daring expletives....

The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Renaissance Nemesis - Frank Jameso www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog Video Archive For the last week, James Franco has dutifully been making the late-night...

Rupert Hughes’ “City of Angels,” 1941. How much of a book must one read before deciding that it’s going to be a dog? Does an author deserve a running start of the first chapter? Can one truly tell that a......

When Mitt Romney announces his candidacy for presidency in 2012, late-night comedians had the jokes ready to go....

The news media haven’t figured out what label to pin on James O’Keefe, the wily troublemaker whose hidden-camera sting could be the smoking gun that leads to a cutoff of further federal funding from NPR. The press has resorted to......