Released in 1967 during the Golden Age of the French New Wave, Weekend, a class satire set against a collapsed society, shows how the end of the world can feel right around the corner. When Jean ...

Conservative to a fault, Juvenal’s Satires rails against the rapid expansion and transformation of Roman society ... Emily and Tom explore the idiosyncrasies of Juvenal’s verse and its handling in ...

Up against the wall: Ward Sutton’s comic panels get the gallery treatment (“Civil Whites,” 2024, acrylic on canvas, 26x30”). Amid one of the most divisive and chaotic election years in ...

The line between news and satire has blurred so much that the latter has been shared on social media as fact, where it quickly spreads misinformation. This continues to get worse, especially when ...

There are now translation tools to understand song lyrics, translate websites and to enable automated captions when watching foreign videos and movies. Our phones can instantly translate spoken words.

“Gershwin Brothers’ Two Political Satire Musicals in Concert” ran at New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall on Oct. 12. —Staff writer Ria S. Cuéllar-Koh can be reached at ria ...

You’d expect this to be an opportunity for some vicious mockery. What we get instead is satire — if you can even call it that — that’s disappointingly soft and toothless, and takes small ...

The Franchise (Sky Comedy, Now) is a knives-out HBO/Sky satire in the tradition of Succession or Veep, in which the Hollywood sausage factory that stuffs endless superhero hero movies down the ...

However, the broadcaster has defended Mr Kielty, saying the monologue was “satire”, which it said was a “core part of freedom of expression”. Sinn Fein TD Louise O’Reilly told RTE’s ...

As a satire of franchise moviemaking, we follow the filmmakers as, well, everything goes wrong in their attempts to bring Tecto to life – which of course, is hilarious. But what makes The ...

Comedian Patrick Kielty’s description of Sinn Fein as “traitors” on RTE’s Late, Late Show was “miles away from satire” and should prompt an apology from Ireland’s national ...