Satire Sequel Parodies U.S. Newsmakers
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From the creators of the political satire sensation "This Land" comes a sequel set to the tune of "Dixie."
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Smart celebrity satires are flourishing online Â rarely anywhere else Â and they do more than deflate the self-importance of stars.
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On the news, the war plays as tragedy. Can television producers repackage it as situation comedy?
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PBSâs new series successfully reveals some of the challenges faced by todayâs news organizations and the consequences of government skepticism toward the press.
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Jane Smileyâs new novel is a Hollywood satire modeled loosely on Boccaccioâs âDecameron.â
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'Team America,' a satire with puppets, and the time-travel movie 'Primer' are opposite intellectual extremes.
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Sixteen years after "Tanner '88," their faux-reality series about an ill-fated presidential campaign, Altman and Trudeau have reunited for a sequel.
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Forget &quot;Fahrenheit 9/11.&quot; &quot;Team America: World Police&quot; is easily the most riveting political satire of the year, if not the most entertaining, silliest and dirtiest.
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Not since Spinal Tap has there been a sharper satire of cinematic mythomania
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As Jon Stewart tells it, he and his staff of 13 writers at The Daily Show  were looking for a project."Life was too balanced," he says with a straight face. "It was too good for us."They considered a "roads project, a civic improvement," but when they looked around their offices in Manhattan, "we mostly had computers."So they wrote a book.America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction (Warner, &#36;24.95) will be published Monday after nine months of checking a few facts and making up a lot more. (Related story: Daily Show is a no-stump zone)Just as his TV show on Comedy Central is a parody of a news show, the book is a graphic-heavy parody of a textbook. Chapters include "Congress: Quagmire of Freedom," "The Media: Democracy's Valiant Vulgarians" and "The Rest of the World: International House of Horrors."The foreword is by Thomas "TJ" Jefferson, who inquires in a postscript: "Is it true Halle Berry is once again single?"Stewart's favorite part?"I like the ending," which offers a Certificate of Completion, qualifying readers to "practice, participate in, or found a democracy."Too often, he says, "you finish a book and ask, 'What's in it for me beyond self-improvement?' Our book gives you a certificate in nation-building. ... If you just smash together the basic ideas, you're bound to wind up with something better than North Korea."Stewart wants to be known as a comedian, even though The Daily Show was voted best news show by TV critics this summer. He dismisses praise from journalists such as Eric Alterman, media critic for The Nation, who recently wrote that Daily Show offers "a truer picture than ... the Sunday-morning gabfests and cable food fights."Stewart, 41, says, "It's more a sign of frustration with the information people are receiving than a sign of our entrepreneurial spirit of journalism. ... It's a '(expletive) you' to real news, not a 'hallelujah' for our fake news."The book mocks both President Bush, "hurdling the lowered bar," and Democrat John Kerry, "monogrammed for greatness." But Stewart acknowledges that The Daily Show delivers more jokes at the expense of Republicans."They're in power," he says. "Comedians in biblical times did more Goliath jokes. The David stuff didn't fly."He says he worries less about being partisan than being boring, strident or redundant, "the death of comedy."Stewart's appearance at a booksellers' convention in June, which featured former president Bill Clinton, won rave reviews. Publishers Weekly said Stewart "out-Clintoned that other guy," prompting his publisher to boost the first printing of America from 500,000 copies to 700,000.
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As "The Little Dog Laughed" and "Borat" have lately shown, old-school mockery of homosexuality, refitted for a new, post-politically-correct era, is making a comeback.
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Democrats call Fox the FAUX news channel. Republicans used to refer to CNN as Clinton network news.
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No one in advertising can doubt the power of juvenile humor. Now, Marvin Waldman wants to put it to good use. The former executive creative director at Young & Rubicam in New York, who left in 1999 to focus on social-marketing projects, has come up with a bumper sticker and Web site introducing a phrase he says can bring Democrats and Republicans together: "Cheney is a Dick."
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As the political establishment chuckles over his recent gaffes, the surging underdog candidate hopes to have the last laugh
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AOL presents its own take on blogging the news.
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Political satirist Jon Stewart's  mock look at a political science college textbook "America (the  Book), a Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction," was named on  Sunday the book of the year by Publishers Weekly, the trade  publication of the book industry.
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Because no good joke in Hollywood goes untold again ... and again, the mixed-couple setup receives another extended workout in this modestly amusing sequel.