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 ...

The world of late night TV was thrown into sudden upheaval when CBS announced The Late Show’s cancellation, which sparked shocked reactions from Hollywood celebs, and was soon followed by the FCC’s ...

Jay Leno believes the late-night television landscape could use more nonpartisan humor. The former The Tonight Show host had a nonpartisan approach to his humor and has some thoughts about the ...

Since his day, that advantage has shrunk as newspapers have winked out. Buchwald himself witnessed that market’s contraction. With it has coincided a thinning of the ranks of humor columnists. We have ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. When Donald Trump seemed poised to win the presidential election in 2016, Trevor Noah, then the host of The Daily Show, began the program’s live night-of special ...

The hosts’ monologues may feel especially pointed right now, but the trend really took off during the George W. Bush administration before the Iraq war.

Political humor can amuse, provoke or even spark outrage, as seen in Jimmy Kimmel’s recent suspension. CU Boulder Today spoke with Peter McGraw, director of the Humor Research Lab (HuRL) and a ...

I memorized those lyrics when I was 11 or 12 years old, by watching “That Was The Week That Was,” the NBC comedy that ran from 1965 through 1967 and made Lehrer famous. I loved the show, not only ...

Comedian Nikki Glaser has admitted that she thinks twice before including any political humor in her sets out of fear of getting doxxed, detained, or receiving death threats. O’Brien, 61, was named ...