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🇺🇸 ‘The Audacity’ Review: Billy Magnussen and Sarah Goldberg Anchor AMC’s Vicious but One-Note Silicon Valley Satire
[USA]
Created by 'Succession' and 'Better Call Saul' alum Jonathan Glatzer, the dark comedy chronicles the crisscrossing paths of a flailing tech CEO, a greedy therapist and a retired pioneer of the industr...
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🇺🇸 Philomena Cunk Returns! Diane Morgan’s Beloved Idiot Heads to the Movies With ‘Cunk on Cinema’ for BBC, Netflix (EXCLUSIVE)
[USA]
Philomena Cunk is back and, almost certainly, no less stupid. The British comic character, created by Diane Morgan (who plays Cunk) and Charlie Brooker and known for her deadpan style and ill-informed...
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🇺🇸 ‘Outcome’ Review: Keanu Reeves Brings Sincerity to Jonah Hill’s Otherwise Glibly Unfunny Comedy About a Hollywood Star in Crisis
[USA]
Cameron Diaz, Matt Bomer and Martin Scorsese also appear in the Apple TV inside-showbiz satire, in which an extortion scheme prompts a fretful apology tour.
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🇺🇸 Bill Maher is getting the Mark Twain Prize after all
[USA]
There was confusion about whether the satirist would be getting the Kennedy Center's top humor award after White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt called it "fake news." Now it's confir...
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🇺🇸 John Oliver Mocks Operation Epic Fury: “Definitely the Stupidest Name I’ve Ever Heard”
[USA]
"It sounds like a VHS tape Hegseth put out of himself doing karate in a garage," the 'Last Week Tonight' host said. "It sounds like the name of an energy drink marketed to divorced monster-truck fans ...
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🇺🇸 Princess Diana and Winston Churchill Brought Back to Life With ‘Jurassic Park’ Technology in Edgy ‘SNL U.K.’ Last Supper Sketch
[USA]
Princess Diana and Winston Churchill were among a selection of dead Great Britons brought back to life with “Jurassic Park” technology in an edgy “Saturday Night Live U.K.” sketch. In a skit titled “D...
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🇺🇸 First ‘SNL U.K.’ Weekend Update Takes Aim at Former Prince Andrew: His New Residence, Marsh Farm, Is ‘Named After the Nearby Marsh Where His Body Will Be Found’
[USA]
For the first-ever edition of “SNL U.K.’s” Weekend Update, one person was roasted more than others: former Prince Andrew. Hosts Ania Magliano and Paddy Young did not hold back as they took aim at the ...
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🇺🇸 Chuck Norris Punched This Article Into the Sun
[USA]
Norris, best known as the butt-kicking star of action films, became an unwitting if good-natured pioneer of the internet meme.
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🇺🇸 A New Game Turns the H-1B Visa System Into a Surreal Simulation
[USA]
Inspired by real immigrant stories, H1B.Life captures the uncertainty, trade-offs, and pure luck that shape the lives of people trying to build a future in the US.
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🇬🇧 Ella Baron on Vladimir Putin and the benefits to Russia of war in Iran – cartoon
[United Kingdom]
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/mar/17/ella-baron-donald-trump-war-iran-cartoon">Continue reading...</a>
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🇺🇸 ‘DreamQuil’ Review: A Satirical Sci-Fi Soap Opera That Doesn’t Fully Connect
[USA]
Alex Prager’s debut “DreamQuil” film of whip-smart design that ends up with little to say. Its retro-futuristic setting draws heavily from the 1950s but combines numerous contemporary concerns, result...
Related: #Science Fiction, #Television Critique -
🇬🇧 Boarders season three review – the brilliant school satire bows out at the perfect time
[United Kingdom]
<p>The final series of the BBC’s sharp sendup of boarding school in the UK is a riot of sex, scandals and final exams. This is striking, charming TV that has been impressive from first to last</p><p>D...
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🇺🇸 ‘SNL’ Cold Open: Pete Hegseth Has Some Terrible Advice for Trapped Oil Tankers
[USA]
Donald Trump summons the Defense secretary to explain why the U.S. has "won" the war against Iran and why the media should stop worrying about it
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🇺🇸 Razzie Awards 2026 Winners: Ice Cube Named Worst Actor as ‘War of the Worlds’ Dominates With Five Dishonors
[USA]
Ice Cube’s “War of the Worlds” dominated at the 46th Razzie Awards, (reluctantly) taking home the dishonors for worst picture, worst actor and more. Ice Cube beat out Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye (“Hurry...
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🇺🇸 The ‘On Cinema’ Oscar Specials Are the Nightmarish Awards Counterprogramming Hollywood Deserves
[USA]
Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington's 13 years of Oscar Fever has resulted in countless fictional deaths, divorces, lawsuits, and damaged property. They explain why it's still better than watching the ...
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🇺🇸 ‘I Love Boosters’ Review: Keke Palmer and Demi Moore in Boots Riley’s Blisteringly Funny, Joyfully Rousing Anti-Capitalist Satire
[USA]
Also starring Don Cheadle, Taylour Paige and Naomi Ackie, the SXSW-premiering comedy follows a band of Bay Area shoplifters who get swept up in a larger global scheme.
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🇬🇧 Ben Jennings on the Oscars – cartoon
[United Kingdom]
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/mar/12/ben-jennings-oscars-cartoon-los-angeles-middle-east-crisis">Continue reading...</a>
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🇺🇸 ‘On Cinema at the Cinema’: How Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington Pull Off the Internet’s Most Deranged Movie Review Show
[USA]
“What is ‘On Cinema at the Cinema?’” That’s a great question, but it doesn’t come with an easy answer. For those who have never seen the online movie review show, let me fill you in on the latest deve...
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🇺🇸 David Duchovny & Laverne Cox Set To Lead ‘Soapbox’ Satire From Andrew Jay Cohen; West Duchovny, Randall Park, Jimmi Simpson And Jennifer Grey Also Set
[USA]
EXCLUSIVE: David Duchovny (The X-Files) has co-written and will star opposite Laverne Cox (Clean Slate) in Soapbox, a satirical comedy following an aging soap opera star who finds himself caught in th...
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🇬🇧 Martin Rowson on the deepening Middle East crisis – cartoon
[United Kingdom]
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/mar/06/martin-rowson-middle-east-crisis-us-defence-secretary-pete-hegseth-iran-tehran">Continue reading...</a>
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🇬🇧 I’m here to buy a Range Rover – no one mentioned a passenger: the Stephen Collins cartoon
[United Kingdom]
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/picture/2026/mar/06/im-here-to-buy-a-range-rover-no-one-mentioned-a-passenger-the-stephen-collins-cartoon">Continue reading...</a>
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🇬🇧 Kemi is wrong about everything. Which is almost an achievement in itself | John Crace
[United Kingdom]
<p>The Tory leader’s appearance on the Today programme was sheer madness – and comedy gold</p><p>Cast your mind forward 10 years or so. Long after Kemi Badenoch has been sacked as Tory party leader wi...
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🇺🇸 Jimmy Kimmel Investigates Trump’s Neck Rash by Interviewing His ‘Badly Bruised Baby Hand’
[USA]
"Just when you thought Melania couldn't find another reason not to sleep with him," the host joked
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🇺🇸 Jimmy Kimmel Wants to Host the White House Correspondents' Dinner
[USA]
“Please, give the people what they want for once,” the talk show host appealed to President Trump. “This is our destiny together, you and me. Think about it.”
Related: #Entertainment, #Politics -
🇺🇸 March
[USA]
Political cartoons from the desk of Matt Wuerker
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🇺🇸 ‘SNL’ Tackles BAFTAs’ Racial Slur Incident With Tourette’s Sketch Featuring Controversial Celebs Like J.K. Rowling, Jill Zarin, Armie Hammer & Ye
[USA]
NBC’s Saturday Night Live tackled one of the biggest controversies of the week, the shocking incident at the BAFTA Film Awards involving Tourette’s campaigner John Davidson’s involuntary racial slur, ...
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🇺🇸 ‘Saturday Night Live’ Opens With Quickly Scripted Sketch Of Trump Exulting In War With Iran: “My Board Of Peace Decided We Were Bored Of Peace”
[USA]
Saturday Night Live opened with Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson), who touted himself as peacemaker, now exulting in war with Iran. Less than a day after the U.S. and Israel launched strikes on the ...
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🇬🇧 Madeline Horwath on the end of the Winter Olympics – cartoon
[United Kingdom]
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/feb/21/madeline-horwath-end-of-winter-olympics-cartoon">Continue reading...</a>
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🇺🇸 The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics
[USA]
Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in th...
Related: #Political Commentary, #Media -
🇬🇧 From patriotic parody to threat: Flanders and Swann, the Likely Lads and Reform | Letter
[United Kingdom]
<p>The boundaries between satire and nationalism are ever more blurred, writes <strong>Alex Heaton</strong></p><p>Stuart Heritage rightly observes the satire that is inherent in For He is an Englishma...
Related: #Nationalism, #Cultural interpretation, #Identity politics
Key Entities (67)
- Saturday Night Live (3 news)
- Donald Trump (3 news)
- The Guardian (2 news)
- Matt Wuerker (2 news)
- Satire (2 news)
- Hollywood (2 news)
- Jimmy Kimmel (2 news)
- On Cinema (2 news)
- H.M.S. Pinafore (1 news)
- The Likely Lads (1 news)
- Stephen Collins (1 news)
- Range Rover (1 news)
- Ella Baron (1 news)
- Vladimir Putin (1 news)
- Chuck Norris (1 news)
- Boarders (1 news)
- Politics of Europe (1 news)
- Academy Awards (1 news)
- Billy Magnussen (1 news)
- AMC (1 news)
- The Audacity (1 news)
- Jonathan Glatzer (1 news)
- Jill Zarin (1 news)
- British Academy of Film and Television Arts (1 news)
- Comedy (1 news)
- Melania Trump (1 news)
- White House (1 news)
- Ali Khamenei (1 news)
- Iran (1 news)
- James Austin Johnson (1 news)
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