Fifty years ago, Stanley Kubrick co-wrote and directed the film Dr Strangelove. It's now a comedy classic, but it was adapted from a book called Red Alert by an RAF officer named Peter George – an ...

A teacher in Vancouver has been suspended without pay after playing a song by The Lonely Island during a lesson on satire. Steeves warned the class that the two videos featured explicit material, and ...

CONCEIVED for a theatre on Mars, a full performance of The Last Days of Mankind would stretch over 10 days measured in earthly time. Audiences could not bear it, said Karl Kraus of his searing ...