A selection of world humor news by ForHum

Na een dispuut met illustrator Bart Vantieghem trekt Krant van West-Vlaanderen de stekker uit een satirische strip over de Brugse burgemeester. Saillant detail: een mail van schepen Franky Demon bracht de bal aan het rollen. “Deze beslissing heeft niets te maken met politieke druk”, klinkt het bij de krant.

¿Quién es Fabrizio Fauna? ¿Quién está detrás de la cuenta parodia dedicada al desprestigio de Vinícius Júnior? ¡Te lo contamos!

Stephen Colbert revealed CBS lawyers blocked his 'Late Show' interview with Texas Senate candidate James Talarico over FCC equal time rule concerns.

Our critic annotates the barbed wordplay of a decision challenging the Trump administration’s theory of executive power.

President Trump declared the awards ceremony “virtually unwatchable” and accused Mr. Noah of defamation over a joke he made that appeared to tie the president to Jeffrey Epstein.

Authorities crack down on stand-up as jokes about Jesus and period pads incense sectarian groups and prosecutors

Why the European Court of Human Rights' judgement in Mladina d.d. Ljubljana v Slovenia (No. 2) stands out.

Het Hof van Cassatie heeft alle cassatieberoepen verworpen die Dries Van Langenhove en vier anderen hadden ingesteld tegen hun veroordeling. Dat betekent dat er nu in ons land een punt gezet wordt na zijn jarenlange juridische strijd en dat zijn straf in de Schild en Vrienden-zaak definitief is.

A Swiss lawyer and his wife have filed a criminal complaint against the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo after it published a cartoon about...

A Paris court found them guilty of "malicious" bullying towards the wife of the French president.

Toby Morton now owns trumpkennedycenter.org, which advertises new year performance by the ‘Epstein dancers’

Supreme Court: Employees Liquor Disclosure Not Defamation Court cites public interest in exposing superiors request, overturning compensation order

A student at Gordonsville High School was suspended for an Instagram comment made to a friend. Now, he's suing on First Amendment grounds.

The university had argued that its own interest in avoiding campus disruption outweighed the professor's First Amendment interest.

Mathew Hoffmann is legal counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom, which represents satire site The Babylon Bee in its lawsuit challenging Hawaiʻi’s law that criminalizes the distribution of “materially deceptive media” that may risk harming “the reputation or electoral prospects” of politicians. He argues the law violates the First Amendment by targeting speech, including political memes, humor and satire.

Live from the Central Library of The Hague, the European Cartoon Award, one of the most prestigious awards for political cartoons published in Europe, announced the names of its Winner, Runners-up and Honourable Mention.

In the Arab world, this logic intensified when political satire itself shifted from the permissible to the forbidden. In Lebanon, which is supposedly a more open space, the same scene keeps repeating in different forms: summons, legal prosecutions, sectarian pressure, and digital incitement that turns comedians into legitimate targets.

An ex-Barclays Plc investment banker, who alleged that an offhand comment taken out of context cost him his job, lost an unfair dismissal lawsuit after a London court ruled he had demonstrated dishonest conduct.

Rather than publishing the findings or pursuing additional research, Meta called off further work.

ODEE has applied to Strasbourg to uphold his right to freedom of expression. His case is one of the first before the ECtHR to consider the balance between artistic freedoms in satire and political parody and intellectual property rights.

Trial is latest phase in legal battle against false claim that French first lady is a man named Jean-Michel Trogneux

The video app can produce realistic deepfakes of Marx shopping and MLK Jr trolling. Some say using ‘historical figures’ is the company’s way of testing the legal waters

OpenAI is preventing people from making AI videos of King on its Sora app after the estate of the civil rights leader complained about the spread of offensive and vulgar portrayals.

Vice-president downplays messages such as ‘I love Hitler’ in chat by 24 to 35-year-olds to ‘stupid jokes’.

A federal judge has thrown out Drake’s defamation lawsuit against Universal Music Group (UMG), ruling that the company cannot be held responsible for promoting Kendrick Lamar’s hit diss track Not Like Us.

It follows Spitting Image creating a parody version of the children's character for its YouTube series.

Soğuk Savaş kanalının sunucusu Boğaç Soydemir ve program konuğu Enes Akgündüz tutuklandı. Akgündüz’ün avukatı müvekkilinin suç olabilecek bir eylemi olmadığını belirterek “Kendisine sorulan soru üzerine gülmüştür” dedi.

The Saudi government is using the Riyadh Comedy Festival 2025 from September 26 to October 9 to deflect attention from its brutal repression of free speech and other pervasive human rights violations.