Parody and humour in the post-truth era

An unexpected event of the globalization it is the appearance of a term considered the word of the year in 2016. We talk about the neologism Post-truth, defined by Oxford Dictionary as circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief. The trouble is that it has been necessary a serial of viral and false sends during the presidential campaign in the USA to make the journalists aware of their lack of credibility. Paradoxicaly, the world of Art, understood like a cultural field where suspension of disbelief is the rule, is characterized by the suspicion about that supposed media objectivity. The present statement wants to reflect about this topic, from the humour point of view in its different ways, as the systematic questioning of stereotypes, biased news, fraudulent advertisement, or the non checked truth, is the usual way in the artistic practice that involves irony and humour. Our hypothesis it is that any theory to be verified, needs to be proved. Jankelevitch and Diogenes remind us that the best way to prove how many truth there is in a Truth is to reduced it to ridiculous, and seeing how many jokes it is able to take. Because as far as something that doesn't take a joke is false, the parody of a theory is to do with it the check of the checks.