Satire (genre)

Comedy Central star Stephen Colbert used Sarah Palin's " satire" defense of Rush Limbaugh against her Monday night, by declaring that the former Alaska governor is a "f-king retard." During his show, Colbert was mocking Palin's speech at the Tea Party...

Photos of President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle that surfaced in a Republican newspaper last week have caused a flurry of controversy on Long Island. The pictures featured in the weekly Smithtown Messenger, created by Phillip Sciarello, features...

Sony Pictures Classics announced at the Cannes Film Festival that it had acquired North American rights to the buzz dramedy "No."...

South Africa's President Zuma sues over painting depicting him unzipped: A painting by a white Cape Town artist, Brett Murray, depicting South African President Jacob Zuma as Soviet leader Lenin -- but with his genitals exposed -- has caused a storm of...

From singer Kaleigh Baker to gypsy-rock of The Getbye, there's plenty of local music on the Outdoor Stage on the Grande Green Lawn at this year's Orlando International Fringe Festival. And the music is all free admission. There's an extensive schedule,...

Matteo Garrone, director of "Gomorrah," returns to the Cannes Film Festival with "Reality," an indictment of reality television....

In "The Dictator," Sacha Baron Cohen combines his knack for absurd characters with the grand comedic tradition of skewering despotism on the big screen. Critics agree that the film is funny and vulgar; whether the combination truly works depends on whom...

For no particular reason, I decided to make today’s movie list about the 10 Best Movies About Television. Understand, these aren’t movies based on TV shows, although a few of them grew out of things that really happened on television.......

Digby Wolfe, an Emmy Award-winning comedy writer who helped producer George Schlatter develop "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In," a landmark TV series that became an overnight sensation in the late 1960s, has died. He was 82. Wolfe, who later became a professor...

Before there was the rapidly atrophying NBC sitcom "Smash," there was "[Title of Show]," a cleverly metadramatic little show by Hunter Bell and Jeff Bowen, wherein a couple of young guys trying to write a hit musical decide that their best option is to...

Maurice Sendak died on Tuesday at age 83. One of Maurice Sendak's most memorable final interviews was with Stephen Colbert on "The Colbert Report."...

Sharon Glassman has been writing plays since high school. In 1990 she had her first hit when she and Civic Theatre Artistic Director Bill Sanders adapted Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" for the stage. Since then "Carol" has become an annual holiday event...