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The Statesman is a very funny satire, but "funny peculiar" rather than "funny ha ha". A deliberately anachronistic production, that looks at the impact of controlled speech, and the inevitable ...

Druski has built a career doing something that has become increasingly difficult in comedy: making people laugh while occasionally making them uncomfortable. His characters can exaggerate everything ...

Netflix has provided a major update on the future of 1670, the Polish satirical comedy. Alongside confirming the show's return, the platform has released the first trailer for Season 3, offering a ...

I wanted to like Digger. The satirical dark comedy, starring Tom Cruise and directed by Oscar winner Alejandro G. Iñárritu, promised a razor-sharp skewering of the bleak state of the ...

As “The Daily Show” celebrates 30 years on the air, correspondents Jordan Klepper and Ronny Chieng reflected on why the political satire program has managed to endure, and why the genre is “almost a ...

Too many comedians are taking “the path of least resistance” and failing to address contentious political topics, according to the creator of The Thick of It and Veep. Storied British comedy creator ...

Starring director Bahman Ark as Bahram, the story centers on a mid-career filmmaker whose entire body of Turkish-Azeri-language work has never been screened in Iran. When his newest film is once again ...

Comedy and music have long served as powerful mediums for addressing societal issues. Throughout history, these art forms have been used to critique and expose the flaws in political systems. Greek ...