The Statesman is a very funny satire, but "funny peculiar" rather than "funny ha ha". A deliberately anachronistic production, that looks at the impact of controlled speech, and the inevitable ...
NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Christine Wenc, author of the new book Funny Because It's True: How the Onion Created Modern News Satire. Here's some headlines for you. "Kitten Thinks Of Nothing But ...
A self-involved 31-year-old's birthday weekend goes to hell when he grows paranoid that his college friends are trying to replace him. A scary-funny British satire that cringes in horror at the all ...