Comedy Looks Beyond the Debt CeilingLast Friday morning NPR host Mary Louise Kelly wrapped up a segment on the debt ceiling debate by quoting the Onion headline “Congress […]
ByStephen Hoban
The Colbert Super PAC’s Real (Secret) VictoryYesterday the Federal Election Commission in a 5-to-1 vote approved Stephen Colbert’s media exemption, allowing him to turn his show into a […]
A Timeline of Osama Bin Laden ComedyWe don’t have to stop making jokes about him just because he’s dead. It’s fair to wager he’ll be as big a staple in American comedy fifty years […]
ByStephen Hoban
The Persistence of Birther HumorWhat does Obama have in common with God? Neither has a birth certificate.
Donald Trump’s recent embrace of the birther conspiracy has been a […]
ByStephen Hoban
The Comedy Stylings of Rep. Anthony WeinerQueens Congressman Anthony Weiner spoke at the Congressional Correspondents Dinner this week, and it was well liked. These dinners are events […]
ByStephen Hoban
In Praise of The Onion’s American VoicesFor all the attention their stories receive and how often their news headlines get reposted, The Onion’s American Voices column has a way of […]
ByStephen Hoban
Political Comedy Loves the 80sRecently the news has been feeling a little too familiar. Old characters have been making comebacks, and old jokes have come out of retirement. […]
ByStephen Hoban
Nir Rosen and the Value of the Comedy KillerIf the internet has a down side for anyone, it’s that it makes it much harder for casual sexists and racists to tell jokes among friends. (And […]
ByStephen Hoban
Comedy and the New CongressIt started out a quiet week on the domestic front, as comedians contemplated the Black Eyed Peas, Groupon, and Mubarak, while Republicans and […]
ByAdam Frucci
Making Jokes About EgyptIt can’t be easy to write comedy about the stuff that happens around the world. If the President, whose job it is to have opinions about these […]
ByStephen Hoban
Political Comedy’s Gender GapI had no idea whether current events would overlap with Splitsider’s Women in Comedy week, but then Michele Bachmann happened. At first I was […]
The Year Ahead in Political ComedyThe new year has just begun, but already political forces have been lining up that will define politics and political comedy for the next 51 […]
ByStephen Hoban
The Right Way to Make Fun of Michael SteeleThe Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cThe Daily Show on Facebook
Part of me hopes that Michael Steele sticks around forever, if […]
The Better of the ‘It Gets Better’ ParodiesThe Daily Show’s It Gets Worse John McCain parody was a high point in political comedy for the week. Heck, maybe it’s the high point for the […]
Are Comedians Making Enough Fun of Democrats?For a decade, Republicans have been the butt of far more jokes than Democrats have. It’s natural that comedians would make fun of the people in […]
This Week in Political Comedy: The Way of Oprah“Rahm Emanuel is leaving the Obama administration. He wants to become mayor of Chicago. If you’re mayor of Chicago, that means you report […]
This Week in Political Comedy: Fahrenheit 9/11The Week in Political Comedy is a column that rounds up the week’s biggest news comedy stories and looks at how the presumptions, opinions, and […]
