Outside the Beltway

Great comics combine social commentary with humor. Increasingly, they’ve skipping the latter.

The intersection of politics, morality, and meaning.

The convicted criminal has been released pending appeal.

Thomas gets the ball rolling, and I take off from there.

The industry is changing rapidly.

It’s not funny when you have to constantly explain the jokes.

“The Closer” delivers more of what people love and hate about the GOAT.

A quadrennial tradition.

Arguably the best comedian of his generation is not kidding around.

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

Is political satire even possible in the age of Trump?

Was one of the pioneering African-American entertainers a “house Negro”?

Controversies involving Jimmy Kimmel and “The Simpsons” highlight a perennial question.

The re-emergence of Obama foreign policy advisor Samantha Power to prominence has brought critics to the forefront