Comedy and music have long served as powerful mediums for addressing societal issues. Throughout history, these art forms have been used to critique and expose the flaws in political systems. Greek ...

Iranian filmmaker Ali Asgari has long explored the quiet tensions and bureaucratic pressures of everyday life in Iran, from ...

It is safe to say that Gary Janetti is never one to shy away from controversy. In fact, he is one of those people that is looking to dive feet first right into it. As a writer and producer on Family ...

Cinema’s clash of the classes paints a frightening portrait of a status-obsessed society. From rags-to-riches stories of the self-made man portrayed in movies such as “The Wolf of Wall Street” to ...

Black American novelists, filmmakers and other writers are using comedy to reveal — and combat — our era’s disturbing political realities. By Adam Bradley LAST SPRING, DURING the Broadway revival of ...

The Statesman is a very funny satire, but "funny peculiar" rather than "funny ha ha". A deliberately anachronistic production, that looks at the impact of controlled speech, and the inevitable ...

Fred Willard attends the LA Premiere of "50 Shades of Black" on Jan. 26, 2016, held at Regal L.A. Live, in Los Angeles. Willard died Friday night at age 86. (John Salangsang/Invision) Fred Willard, ...

Via Palladium Pictures Incubator Program - How does a satire comedy website find itself on the front lines of the debate over free speech online? Seth Dillon and his team at the Babylon Bee tell the ...

"When people leave here, they can't believe the show was in Hanover, where the place across the street is called the Famous Hot Wiener," said Jim Bryan, owner and standup comedian at the Church of ...

Few films are as difficult to create as a good horror-comedy. Too often, creators struggle to find a balance between these genres, either playing solely into one while neglecting the other or ...