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The founder of the satirical Cockroach Janta Party says Indian authorities took down the group's website and hacked its Instagram accounts as their movement rapidly gained followers and petitions, amid protests over exam-leak allegations and calls for Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation.
The Boys ends its five-season run with a bloody, cathartic showdown in which Homelander is killed and Butcher dies soon after, leaving Hughie and Starlight to a mostly hopeful future. The finale threads a more optimistic ending than the show’s grim peak and acknowledges its shift away from the comics, while its satire of celebrity culture and authoritarian power remains, even as the bite of earlier seasons softens. The creator explains live-action adaptations necessitated different choices, and the franchise will continue with Vought Rising and The Boys: Mexico, despite Gen V’s cancellation.
After the Supreme Court chief justice likened unemployed youths to cockroaches, Abhijeet Dipke launched the Cockroach Janta Party as a satirical online movement. It quickly amassed millions of followers, attracted high-profile sign-ups (including Mahua Moitra and Kirti Azad), and has become a pointed critique of unemployment, media manipulation, and the Modi government, turning a joke into a real, if unofficial, political force.
BuzzFeed highlights four cringe-worthy moments from Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry’s Greenland trip as a Trump-appointed special envoy, including anti-USA posters in Nuuk and a notably awkward moment when Landry asked a Greenlandic child for a photo and was refused, underscoring reception and controversy around the envoy role.
io9’s review argues The Boys’ fifth season starts strong but ends bloated and unfocused, with overlong setup and recycled jokes that undercut the finale’s impact, though Homelander remains entertaining and a few standout performances keep it watchable.
Jon Stewart was briefly stunned by Trump's offhand remarks about Xi Jinping and, in response, used the moment to critique Trump and pivot the discussion into ironic career advice for recent grads.
A Cannes review of Jim Queen, Nicolas Athane and Marco Nguyen’s French animated comedy about a gay Parisian lifestyle; the film leans into crude, South Park–style humor and an AIDS allegory as a pandemic turns gay men straight; while the animation pops with bright energy and some bold set pieces, the jokes feel familiar and less sharp than hoped, limiting its impact despite its provocative aims.
POLITICO’s Cartoon Carousel curates the week’s best political cartoons from a diverse slate of nationally syndicated artists, edited by Matt Wuerker, delivering humorous and pointed takes on recent political events.
The Pittsburgh Steelers say they’re willing to wait on Aaron Rodgers to salvage their stalled franchise, with GM Omar Khan joking a deal could come within a broad 3-to-100 day window after a disappointing 2025 season, signaling a push to regain relevance amid mounting frustration.
On Saturday Night Live's cold open, Aziz Ansari spoofed FBI Director Kash Patel with oddly specific denials about drinking and taxpayer-funded antics, a bit that critics say raises more questions about Patel's conduct than it answers.
During SNL U.K.’s Weekend Update, co-hosts Paddy Young and Ania Magliano quipped that Trump shat himself before the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting, with Magliano noting Melania’s admonition that ‘we’re real people,’ in a segment hosted by Amy Lou Wood that also skewered royalty and UK politics.
Tim Heidecker debuted as The Onion’s creative director and host of a takeover livestream for InfoWars, signaling a satirical rebranding after Alex Jones’s legal setback. In a spoof of Jones, Heidecker declared victory, teased future InfoWars offerings (including outrageous bits like drinking “blood curated from the forsaken” and products such as Piss-to-Gold), referenced a mock alliance between Satan and God, and even had a Trump impersonation call in to congratulate him, signaling a bold, irreverent pivot for the controversial outlet.
Aneil Karia’s 16-minute short Vote Gavin Lyle lampoons the far-right by following a wannabe Reform candidate, pairing sharp social critique with empathy and humor. Released via WePresent on WeTransfer and YouTube, the film marks Karia’s move from features to compact, bold satire and showcases WePresent’s role in funding artist-driven political work.
A tongue-in-cheek app called Sinceerly claims to erase AI telltales from emails by injecting human-style mistakes and typos. It offers Subtle, Human, and CEO modes, and the author’s hands-on test treats it as satire, noting the deadpan tone and playful critique of AI writing tropes. The developer, Ben Horwitz, says the project is meant to provoke thought about credibility, trust, and integrity in writing, suggesting that the AI-human debate in daily communication may become even more tangled—an observation that underscores how “LLMs all the way down” blur the lines between human and machine prose.
Late-night hosts imagined a comedic roast-style take on Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, mocking his sensitivity, the absence of a traditional comedian this year, and the administration’s chaotic Iran policy; Kimmel delivered a pointed spoof of Trump and aides, Colbert joked about the dinner’s format and Epstein headlines, and Meyers linked the Iran tensions to domestic pain like rising gas prices and potential bailout moves.