1+ day, 22+ hour ago  (422+ words) Michael Pyke says those sitting on piles of unearned wealth should be willing to help out a less fortunate generation Your correspondent asserts that the increase in the value of his house since he bought it "just about covers all…...

2+ mon, 3+ day ago  (497+ words) The satirical website's parent company will have to pay $81, 000 a month to the misinformation platform Satirical website the Onion plans to turn rightwing commentator Alex Jones's misinformation site Infowars into a parody of itself under a leasing agreement provisionally approved…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (831+ words) The Guardian The Quantity Theory of Morality by Will Self review " raucously inventive state-of-the-nation satire Thirty-five years on from his debut collection The Quantity Theory of Insanity, Self takes aim at London's chattering classes in an excoriating vision of moral…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago  (127+ words) The Guardian The satirical genius of John Antrobus and Spike Milligan Philip Allen recalls a funny moment at the end of a performance of Antrobus and Milligan's The Bed-Sitting Room in 1963 At that time, it was normal in theatres and…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago  (210+ words) The standup on studying Ancient Greek comedy at university, his worst gig and having the test scores shouted at him during sets Any pre-show rituals? Be thankful I'm not in a Killarney nightclub. Best heckle? In my early years in…...

5+ mon, 4+ week ago  (381+ words) From the books I've read (and forgotten) this year to the number of times my jokes bombed on stage As the end of the year looms up like the handle of a rake I've just stepped on, I recall the…...

9+ mon, 3+ day ago  (565+ words) Fascist regimes pushed narratives of domestic bliss, yet relied on women's unpaid labor. In the US today, "womanosphere' influencers promote the same fantasies In 1980, Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, an unrepentant former leader of the Nazi women's bureau in Berlin from 1934 to 1945, described…...

9+ mon, 2+ week ago  (14+ words) Continue reading. .. The creep of hustle culture reaches the playroom: the Stephen Collins cartoon...

10+ mon, 4+ week ago  (707+ words) The animated comedy enraged the White House this week with a Trump-baiting episode, but it's not the first time it's ruffled feathers It's been a banner week for South Park. On Tuesday it was announced that parent company Paramount had…...

10+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1284+ words) This brilliantly over-the-top comedy about an unworldly heckler explores art and authenticity " being tripped up by it is part of the fun As Tony Interruptor begins, musician Sasha Keyes is in the middle of an improvised trumpet solo. A man…...