In this year's WSJ. Magazine Innovators Issue, the long-running late-night sketch comedy/music series was not only the comedy cover stars but also the focus of an in-depth behind-the-scenes look.

Thomas Butt is a senior writer. An avid film connoisseur, Thomas actively logs his film consumption on Letterboxd and vows to connect with many more cinephiles through the platform. He is immensely ...

Political satire and humour have emerged as influential forces in contemporary media communication, merging critique with entertainment to shape civic discourse. Across television, print, online ...

There’s a unique pleasure in the political satire. Whether in film or on television, well-wrought satires ask the viewer to think critically about the nature of politics, how power works, and how ...

Back in 1940, Charlie Chaplin made a movie called The Great Dictator, a comedy about fascism. In it, he plays a Hitler-like character named Adenoid Hynkel, the authoritarian leader of an imaginary ...

Politics presents itself as serious, authoritative and inevitable, especially in our modern climate. One of the most enduring ways that people have confronted the unwavering attitude and bleak ...

In a particularly turbulent election year, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project and Odyssey Opera embraced extreme timeliness with a double bill of 1931’s “Of Thee I Sing” and its 1933 sequel “Let ’Em ...

This post is written by Apoorva Thakur, junior research assistant at the Department of Psychology, Monk Prayogshala, Mumbai, India. Humor, specifically political humor, serves a purpose. It can be a ...

Stephen Colbert’s final episode as host of “The Late Show” on May 21, 2026, won’t mark the end of his career. But as a scholar of political satire, I think it offers a chance to reflect on the lasting ...