May 4 is World Laughter Day, an invention of Madan Kataria, an Indian doctor and yoga practioner who has founded an international network of laughter clubs. These clubs promote the idea that laughter ...

This morning my husband and I were reading commentaries on the July 21st cover of the New Yorker magazine featuring a satirical depiction of Michelle and Barack Obama, and we were struck by the ways ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In “The Irony of Satire,” an Ohio State University study, it was found that ...

In her 1996 hit “Ironic,” Alanis Morissette famously sings that irony is “like rain on your wedding day” and “a black fly in your chardonnay.” Sorry ...

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The American Journal of Chinese Studies is an internationally circulated journal in its 20th year of publication. The AJCS is the official publication of the American Association for Chinese Studies ...

Irony Curtain: From Matryoskha With Love is a Cold War satire in the form of an adventure game. The Adventure genre has largely been dominated by Telltale Games and similar episodic releases in recent ...

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As Facebook has become more active at moderating political speech, it has had trouble dealing with satire. Matt Bors, a left-leaning cartoonist who runs a site called The Nib, gets most of his traffic ...

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