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.

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 first text, The Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus, a prose satire from 1511 ...