Sacha Baron Cohen’s Who Is America has made it clear that no one is exempt from the comedian’s satirical skewering. The latest unfortunate victim is food critic Bill Jilla, whom Cohen convinces to eat (fake) human flesh while masquerading as a Mi…
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No, Mike Pence’s website has not been hacked. Please take a deep breath.
Proving time is a flat circle both on the internet and under the Trump administration, a Mike Pence parody website that’s more than a year old has resurfaced again, and it’s fooled some folks.
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This hilarious White House press briefing transcript is the dystopian satire we need
White House press briefings are endlessly bizarre. With so many strange and inexplicable moments brought to us by Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, it’s no surprise that the briefings are a perfect target for satire.
But of all the cutting Whit…
Sacha Baron Cohen, crime-fighting Obama show why satire is a dying art under Trump
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Nearly 20 months into the international embarrassment that is the Trump administration, faced with the prospect that its president may well be a Russian asset of some sort, Americans are in dire need of a laugh.
Yet political comedians seem incapable of beating or even matching the sheer self-evident ridiculousness of the moment. (Heck, we feel their pain: It’s an impossible task for journalists to keep up with the news, let alone comedians.)
In Trump Year 2, satire may not be dead exactly — but it’s certainly on life support.
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Why ‘The Death of Stalin’ is the ultimate Trump-era comedy
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Someday in the not-too-distant future, you’ll be sitting in the dark of a multiplex as a trailer plays for the first big-budget movie rendering of the Donald Trump administration. No doubt there will be laughs, gasps, boos, and intense online debates about whether it’s too soon to turn our collective nightmare into silver-screen fodder.
Until that day, one way movie makers can help us process the present American political crisis is to look at it through the lens of dark historical comedy — just as they did during the Vietnam war. While it was still happening, the only way audiences could acknowledge the absurdity of what we were going through was by reaching backward, viewing satires set in Korea (M*A*S*H*, 1970) and World War II (Catch-22, also 1970.) Read more…
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View More Why ‘The Death of Stalin’ is the ultimate Trump-era comedyWhy ‘The Death of Stalin’ is the ultimate Trump-era comedy
Someday in the not-too-distant future, you’ll be sitting in the dark of a multiplex as a trailer plays for the first big-budget movie rendering of the Donald Trump administration. No doubt there will be laughs, gasps, boos, and intense online debates about whether it’s too soon to turn our collective nightmare into silver-screen fodder.
Until that day, one way movie makers can help us process the present American political crisis is to look at it through the lens of dark historical comedy — just as they did during the Vietnam war. While it was still happening, the only way audiences could acknowledge the absurdity of what we were going through was by reaching backward, viewing satires set in Korea (M*A*S*H*, 1970) and World War II (Catch-22, also 1970.) Read more…
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View More Why ‘The Death of Stalin’ is the ultimate Trump-era comedyAs a GOP congressman, I’m happy to answer questions about our tax plan. But wouldn’t you rather hear about my new puppies!?
Hi! As your Republican representative, part of my job is to inform you about what I’m doing in Washington to represent you: my constituent. One thing I’m currently supporting, for example, is Trump’s tax plan: a proposal that has been called “disastr…
View More As a GOP congressman, I’m happy to answer questions about our tax plan. But wouldn’t you rather hear about my new puppies!?