Satire—the coupling of criticism and humor—has been a popular means to add a seemingly lighthearted touch to somewhat sensitive topics. For example, Saturday Night Live parodied quarterback Tom Brady ...

In our digital times as we are inundated with YouTube videos, memes and social media, satire is everywhere, but it can be more damaging to people's reputations than direct criticism, according to new ...

My junior year of high school, my AP English teacher forced my class to read "A Modest Proposal" —a 1729 essay written by Jonathan Swift in which he proposes that Irish families sell their children as ...

Robert Phiddian receives funding from the Australian Research Council for a study of Australian Political Cartooning. There has been much discussion in recent years about satire’s role in the online ...

Since Snopes' start in the mid-1990s, our fact-checkers have alerted readers to numerous pieces of satire. That's many decades of "jokes" targeting politicians and celebrities, or putting twists on ...

If you’ve read, watched and enjoyed the work of America’s best-known satirical publication The Onion, you might be surprised by how serious it suddenly became earlier this month. So serious, in fact, ...