Humor

Friday’s PBS News Hour celebrated liberal political cartoonist Ann Telnaes, who resigned in a huff from the Washington Post when a cartoon mocking Post owner and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was rejected, part of PBS’s “Art in Action” coverage, “exploring the intersection of art and democracy.”

Our latest NewsBusters study of all the jokes on late-night "comedy" shows this fall found that 98 percent of the jokes about presidential candidates were about Donald Trump, and only 2 percent about Kamala Harris. Our late-night watcher Alex Christy explains just how this remarkable tilt by the "comedians" erupts night after night. Kamala is mostly off-limits to joke about.

It is April 1 which means the news consumer must be extra aware for hijinks, tomfoolery, and other assortments of fake news. While some may have great fun with tales of pitchers who can throw 168 mile an hour fastballs while wearing a hiking boot on one foot and being barefoot on the other, the fact-checkers that are part of Facebook’s anti-disinformation campaign may beg to differ.

There's no room for April Fools Day in a world with the Cleveland 'Guardians.'

Twitter owner Elon Musk has found a new way to troll his opponents in the liberal media with a healthy dose of toilet humor.

Just another boy-meets-balloons story.

Alexandria Ocosao-Cortez has become notorious for being a hypocrite. Her latest segment was when advocated for the dumb proposal of people to ditch their gas stoves, meanwhile she herself uses one.

You can’t keep a good man down.

The Babylon Bee Editor-in-Chief Kyle Mann told Reason Editor-at-Large Nick Gillespie why his company has refused to delete the infamous tweet that got it kicked off Twitter.

The Democrat "fact check" website calling itself PolitiFact is so fervently dedicated to defending President Biden that it's repeating its lame fact checks of previous Kentucky Derby jokes. On Monday, staff writer Monique Curet threw a "Pants on Fire" rating at a Facebook user named Eddie Foley -- with about 1,300 friends at this juncture -- for repeating a joke about Biden being insulted as a…

On Sunday night, as Mother’s Day wound to a close, MSNBC’s Ayman show put on a panel including liberal comedian Laurie Kilmartin. Host Ayman Mohyeldin was highly amused when Kilmartin suggested she would “make sweet love” to the hero who leaked the Alito draft opinion on abortion to Politico, and if they were a Republican and she got pregnant, she would “joyfully abort our fetus.”

Twitter mashed its SHUT UP button on Christian satire site The Babylon Bee. Twitter’s latest episode in its ongoing campaign to silence The Bee involved reportedly locking its founder Adam Ford out of his account for simply trolling the platform with benign humor. 

Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos just solidified himself as one of the biggest climate activist hypocrites in world politics. The city of Rotterdam reportedly gave the green light to disassemble one of Netherland’s oldest bridges to make way for the third richest man in the world’s superyacht, according to BBC.

He didn't go the "full Toobin," but Congressman Donald Payne (D-NJ) wasn't exactly in business attire during a congressional meeting that was being held over Zoom. On June 17, during a Homeland Security Committee meeting congresswoman Beth Van Duyne (R-TX) posted a video to twitter that showed Payne standing up during the call. The representative was obviously not aware that his camera was on…