On Sunday’s episode of The Excerpt podcast: If you haven’t heard of The Onion, a satirical news publication, you’ve no doubt come across the many memes and parodies inspired by its style. The Onion ...

The latest hit that has him fuming is a book called “We’s Lives In Da Ghetto,” written by a comfortably upper middle class Black woman (Issa Rae) who gives interviews about how dismayed she was in her ...

In “Funny Because It’s True,” Christine Wenc offers an idiosyncratic history of The Onion, the publication that made the media its chief satirical target. By Alexandra Jacobs When you purchase an ...

Jeffrey Wright’s Thelonious “Monk” Ellison is at the end of his rope at the beginning of “American Fiction,” a crowd-pleaser that’s both funny and smart in its satire of race, media, artists, identity ...