'Machete': 'A Trash Mexploitation Flick' Worth Seeing
As the debate over immigration rages on in the political spotlight, and candidates all over the country use the sensitive topic as a platform to gain votes for coming November election, Robert...
View ArticleFrench Satirical Magazine Attacked
The office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo was firebomed early Wednesday, apparently in retaliation for publishing an issue "guest edited" by the Prophet Muhammad. The magazine, known for...
View ArticleSatire, Syria & Late-Night Stumbles
We've been gauging the questions and concerns about intervention in Syria from all corners this week, and one place with unique challenges is late night comedy.In entertainment the show must go on, but...
View ArticleA Different Kind of Senate Candidate: One That Only Wants Your Money
This week, The Takeaway is looking at how the deck is set for this year's battle for the U.S. Senate. It's a game of Senate Hold 'Em and Fold 'Em—we'll look at the Republicans' chances of taking the...
View ArticleCongressman Steve Israel on Satire, Politics & Fighting Terrorism
Satire came under attack again this week when a gunman opened fire on a cafe in Copenhagen on Saturday. The cafe was hosting a discussion on caricatures and freedom of speech.The readiness to push back...
View ArticlePEN & Charlie Hebdo: Honoring Courage or Hostility?
Tonight at the American Museum of Natural History, the PEN American Center will honor the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo with its annual Freedom of Expression Courage Award. In early January,...
View ArticleTop Democrat Steve Israel Retires
Click on the audio player above to hear this interview.Representative Steve Israel is bowing out of one spotlight and hoping to step into another. The Democratic Congressman from the third district in...
View ArticleTalkin' Media Bias Blues
We all complain about the 24-7 news cycle, but nobody actually does anything about it. Except maybe Studio 360’s resident folksinger, Scott Blaszak.
View ArticlePolitical Satire in South Africa
Pieter-Dirk Uys and Jonathan Shapiro are satirists with different mediums, but a similar mission. Shapiro is a political cartoonist who publishes under the name Zapiro. Uys is a performer whose...
View ArticleCow Clicker
Video game designer Ian Bogost creates 'serious' video games designed to make you think. One of those games, however, has become an unlikely success. It's called 'Cow Clicker' and though it started as...
View ArticlePolitical Satire in South Africa
Pieter-Dirk Uys and Jonathan Shapiro are satirists with different mediums, but a similar mission. Shapiro is a political cartoonist who publishes under the name Zapiro. Uys is a performer whose...
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Movie Mash-Ups
As we finish up some new stories for the podcast, here's a selection of three short pieces from the archives. These pieces are a little different than the stories we normally present on The Truth. They...
View ArticleChristopher Buckley's They Eat Puppies, Don’t They?
Christopher Buckley discusses his new novel, They Eat Puppies, Don’t They?, a political satire about lobbying, the media, weapons manufacturing, and our relationship with China.
View ArticleGore Vidal's Historical Novel 'Julian' and Its Modern Parallels
"I can talk for an hour without notes, but for 15 minutes, I have to read it. I shall look up occasionally to give an air of spontaneity." Thus, Gore Vidal begins one of his customarily suave and witty...
View ArticleLizz Winstead on Election Season
Lizz Winstead, political satirist and co-creator of the Daily Show, offers her take on the presidential campaign, from the GOP primaries through last night's debate.→ Event: Lizz Winstead's "Bang The...
View ArticleTop Five Political Satires in Opera
"Saturday Night Live" and Comedy Central don’t have a monopoly on political satire. Commentary on the state of government has been showing up in for centuries in operas by Monteverdi to John Adams....
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The Modern Prometheus
What happens when a corporation becomes a person? In this satire by Tony Award-winning playwright Greg Kotis, we follow a company called Geneva Mutual that becomes a sentient being. Performed by Louis...
View ArticleLiving by the Trends in the New York Times Style Section
The New York Times isn't just a source for news; its also the authority on the latest cultural trends—at least, so saysSlate contributor and chronically un-hip Brooklynite Justin Peters. He recently...
View ArticleThe Serious Stand-Up of S.J. Perelman
"Dehydrating in front of an audience," at this 1957 Books and Authors Luncheon, well-known dramatist and writer S. J. Perelman gives a chilling verbal portrait of the writer's life.Lamenting that he is...
View ArticleThe Stench of Honolulu, by Jack Handey: Part 4
“When my friend Don suggested we go on a trip to the South Seas together, and offered to pay for the whole thing, I thought, Fine, but what’s in it for me?” The two will journey for weeks upriver into...
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