We've compiled only a selected history of political satire. Tell us about your own favorite examples on our discussion boards. Identifiably American forms of humor emerged in the late Colonial era.

The Literature of Satire is an accessible but sophisticated and wide-ranging study of satire from the classics to the present in plays, novels and the press as well as in verse. In it Charles Knight ...

Clare and Colin begin their twelve-part series on satire with the big question: what is satire? Where did it come from? Is it a genre, or more of a style, or an attitude? They then plunge into their ...