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Byline: Jessica Elgot Deputy political editor When Keir Starmer wanted to inject a moment of levity into his first speech as prime minister at Labour conference, he told a story [...]

Byline: Rodney Ho rodney.ho@ajc.com A D.C. comedy group called Capitol Steps gently mocked politics for decades via satirical songs, covering every political scandal going back to Ronald Reagans presidency. Then [...]

Byline: Sheera Frenkel More than 30 tech companies have pitched A.I. tools to political campaigns for November's election. The campaigns have been wary. Matthew Diemer, a Democrat running for election [...]

Over the past decade, there's one truth that liberals have been loath to admit: Donald Trump is funny. This aspect of his appeal prompts far less commentary than his far-right [...]

Byline: Katie Rogers Democrats are smiling again, and so is a vice president who once weighed the political risks of cheerfulness. The high spirits are also providing air cover for [...]

Many Democrats see Tim Walz as the hottest Minnesota export since Scotch tape. Vice President Kamala Harris https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/08/06/us/kamala-harris-vp-trump-election, ending her speedy search for a running mate by elevating the folksy [...]

Byline: J. KELLY NESTRUCK; Staff TELEVISION While other U.S. talk-show hosts checked out or self-censored Monday, Stephen Colbert didn't pull any (non-physical) punches and kept the political jokes coming despite [...]

A LAWMAKER on Thursday expressed concern over Vice President Sara Duterte's recent comment about being a 'designated survivor' during President Marcos's third State of the Nation Address (Sona). Duterte, in [...]

At Washington dinner parties, dark jokes abound about where to go into exile if the former president reclaims the White House. It has become the topic of the season at [...]

2024 AUG 9 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Science Letter -- Investigators discuss new findings in political science. According to news originating from Santiago, Chile, by [...]

Draft preview text here; add to metadata Tim Walz is the veep’s pick for veep Vice President Kamala Harris https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/08/06/us/kamala-harris-vp-trump-election, ending her speedy search for a running mate by elevating [...]

Byline: George F. Will Asked whether his parents, when naming him, had a sense of history or a sense of humor, Rep. Patrick McHenry, a North Carolina Republican, says: Yes. [...]

2024 MAR 18 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Bioterrorism Week -- Investigators discuss new findings in Politics and Government. According to news reporting originating in Chemnitz, [...]

Byline: Amrit Dhillon in New Delhi It is rare for India's politicians to laugh at themselves, but a row over an act of mimicry has exposed the extent of the [...]

Crosstalk and candidates attacking fellow candidates was one of the big takeaways from the second GOP debate Wednesday night, but another lesson America learned is that the 2024 challengers on [...]

Byline: JAMES GRIFFITHS; Staff HONG KONG -- Every comedian has had a joke bomb or fail to connect with an audience. But perhaps no one has done so quite as [...]

Byline: Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) -- (CNN) — 'Not a joke, folks,' President Joe Biden likes to say to punctuate points in speeches that few would mistake for jokes. But [...]

Byline: Clay Oxford The last edition of the HPR's humor section was published in the Winter 2016 magazine. It was paltry, consisting of just one political cartoon entitled 'Trump's First [...]

Byline: Theodoric Meyer; Leigh Ann Caldwell; Tobi Raji Good morning, Early Birds. April is the cruelest month -- but it's almost over. Send your tips and White House correspondents' dinner [...]

Byline: Michael Crowley A longtime Democratic insider, Thomas Nides navigates a fraught U.S.-Israel relationship with humor, if a sometimes all-too-quotable candor. WASHINGTON - Thomas R. Nides, the U.S. ambassador to [...]

Pence could be blamed for a lot of things, Kimmel said, but not the attack on the Capitol: ''They tried to hang him on Jan. 6.'' Welcome to Best of [...]

Byline: Azi Paybarah One of the highest-profile domestic terrorism cases in recent memory is now, according to a Trump-backed Republican gubernatorial candidate in Michigan, a punchline. In 2020, federal officials [...]

Byline: William Keegan One of the themes of the coverage of our late Queen's life has been what a good sense of humour she had. But I did not see [...]

Byline: By, Roland Gent Cheshire MPs are spending the day paying tribute to the Queen in the House of Commons. MPs have flocked back to the Palace of Westminster for [...]

Byline: By, Roland Gent Cheshire MPs are spending the day paying tribute to the Queen in the House of Commons. MPs have flocked back to the Palace of Westminster for [...]

Byline: Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY This story is part of a USA TODAY series looking at the evolution of comedy and what the industry's future looks like in a changing [...]

Byline: Patrick McGuinness Life behind the iron curtain was an education in a certain kind of humour: dark, unsentimental and absurd. It understood that jokes had become shortcuts to the [...]

Byline: Arifa Akbar Star Rating: 3 stars In Mike Bartlett 's rambunctious, modern-day Restoration comedy, there are scripted instructions that 'everything should be joyful and fun'. Under the direction of [...]

Even though exhilarating, the increasing recourse to humour, seems at times, a means of escape from reality, writes Paul Nwabuikwu As we move deeper into the political season and closer [...]

Byline: Mitchell Schmidt Dec. 8After more than two decades in the Wisconsin Legislature, Democratic Sen. Jon Erpenbach will not be seeking another term next year. Known for his sense of [...]

Byline: Mitchell Schmidt Dec. 8After more than two decades in the Wisconsin Legislature, Democratic Sen. Jon Erpenbach will not be seeking another term next year. Known for his sense of [...]

Byline: Aubrey Allegretti Political correspondent He may be the Tories' most polished politician. And he may even be a future prime minister. But there is one area where Rishi Sunak [...]

Byline: Margaret Sullivan Raging wildfires have closed California's national parks. The polar ice cap is melting at an alarming rate. And extreme weather is ravaging the world - especially its [...]

As we take a break from politics, crying over the increasing cost of living and daily hustles to pay tribute to former President Mwai Kibaki who passed on last week, [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the office of Minnesota Rep. Tom Emmer: Dear Friend, This week, our state experienced an enormous loss. Congressman Jim Hagedorn, who represented [...]

Byline: Daniel J. Chacón dchacon@sfnewmexican.com Karen Bedonie? 'Never heard of her.' Greg Zanetti? 'Nope. Never heard of him.' Tim Walsh? 'Nope. Never heard of him.' Rebecca Dow? 'Nope. Never heard [...]

Byline: David Gergen, CNN Senior Political Analyst (CNN) -- When mourners gather this week to share stories about Bob Dole, what a feast they will have as they reminisce about [...]