cafebabel.com

Comedian and new mayor Jon Gnarr spoofs politics in Reykjavik

('Nicola Potter',) — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:30:00 -0000

It's made an impact - The Best Party won the local elections on 29 May with 34.7% of the vote! We talk to party number two Einar Orn Benediktsson, a former singer and trumpet player who has collaborated with Björk and the Sugercubes

British comic Sacha Baren Cohen's Brüno: 'the most famous Austrian since Hitler'

('Andrew Christie',) — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:16:50 -0000

'Borat was so 2006' - in 2009 it is Brüno who is showing some skin on billboards across Europe. The latest creation from the English shock-comic is a gay Austrian fashion journalist. From 24 July, an alternative version screens in UK cinemas for teenage audiences. cafebabel.com’s hub in Vienna analyses the phenomenon

'Virtual Life': EU's three year, 3.3 million euro 3D virtual world project

('Hayley Wood',) — Fri, 22 May 2009 11:30:00 -0000

Virtual constitutions and nations, a 3D world, democracy and censorship: these are the keywords of a virtual reality project in the style of Second Life financed by the European Union for a total of three million euros. Welcome to Virtual Life

Gerhard Glück:'I live a middle-class life and make middle-class art'

('Andrew Christie',) — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:06:56 -0000

Something’s not right in next door’s garden – at home with the award-winning German caricaturist, 65, who paints miniature scenes from across the Swiss border

Satire: no holds barred

('Ed Saunders',) — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:00:00 -0000

The meaning of laughter, humour and satire in European society

LinEa babelblog: caricatures in democracy

('Nabeelah Shabbir',) — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:45:00 -0000

A babelblog where satire is a speciality. Italian and Belgian cartoonists

Siné: ‘Satire has to be iconoclastic‘

('Nabeelah Shabbir',) — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:27:25 -0000

Interview with the former caricaturist from French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, who founded his own newspaper after he was sacked for his anti-semitic tendencies

Italy's Beppe Grillo vs France's Coluche

('English language version of cafebabel.com',) — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:16:58 -0000

Comparison with the late French comedian who attempted to run for the French presidential elections in 1981

Muhammad cartoons: humour or hate?

Fri, 03 Feb 2006 12:00:00 -0000

This week freedom of expression has taken up an inordinate amount of column inches in the European press. But where do the boundaries lie between freedom of expression and causing offence?