Supposedly, Saturday Night Live hasn’t particularly intended to favor stand-up comedians when casting the show in recent years; Lorne Michaels has said (and I’m sure I’ve repeated here) that there was ...

Paris-based MMM Film Sales has picked up “Versailles,” from “Roma” and “Birds of Passage” producer Pimienta Films and its director Andrés Clariond Rangel’s Cinematográfica CR. Its trailer bows ...

Political satire has been a longstanding theme in media. Recently, I read an LA Times article quoting a statement about political satire and free speech made in 2020 by Brendan Carr, the current ...

It looks like California Gov. Gavin Newsom has learned to stop worrying and love fake, AI-generated political satire videos—or at least, he loves them enough to share one on X. Newsom has discovered a ...

From left, Elizabeth Elias Huffman (on screen) and Treasure Treasure rehearse "First Lady." This is WESA Arts, a weekly newsletter by Bill O'Driscoll providing in-depth reporting about the Pittsburgh ...

Idiocracy follows U.S. Army librarian Joe Bauers (Wilson) who, along with a sex worker named Rita (Rudolph) end up participants in a government experiment into suspended animation with Joe being ...

Satire is and has always been a difficult media genre to write. If a film or TV show goes too subtle in its approach, it’s often criticized as toothless or not savage enough. But go too big and there ...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is facing renewed scrutiny after Chairman Brendan Carr defended his decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel Live! following a monologue in which host Jimmy Kimmel ...

Once upon a time, the First Amendment right to free speech was a given and not debatable. In 1968, the Smothers Brothers comedy duo sent an apology to President Lyndon B. Johnson after regularly ...

Cardi B’s new album includes several pointed references to her estranged husband, Offset — but her current boyfriend, Stefon Diggs, seemingly got a few shout-outs too. The Grammy winner, 32, raps ...

Morning Joe host Mika Brzezinski torched Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Brendan Carr with his own past defense of “political satire” and press freedom as she lambasted his Wednesday ...