The introduction of humorous elements suggest that it may originally have been written as a spoof (Danielou 1985).
Glenda Slagg is a fictional parodic columnist in the satirical magazine Private Eye.
Presenters Nige and Stef would review a selection of the week's new DVD and video releases in their own inimitable style from their mock-videostore located in Hamilton, near Glasgow.
His published collections of poetry comprise mainly ghazals and nazms, but wrote other forms of poetry, like Marsia (elegy) in the musaddas format; Qasida (Panegyric), Hajv (lampoon), Manqibat, Salaam, Rubai (quatrain).
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In 1999, David Nielsen of The Brunching Shuttlecocks recorded a parody entitled "88 Lines About 42 Presidents" about the Presidents of the United States through Bill Clinton.
Just Another Pandora's Box, a 2010 parody film which spoofs A Chinese Odyssey and other movies.
Although "Adieu mes amours" was originally a secular chanson, it was used in a number of mass settings such as, Missa "Adieu mes amours" which uses both parody and cantus firmus compositional techniques by Francesco de Layolle, and another Missa "Adieu mes amours" by Jacob Obrecht.
As the Stomach Turns was a parody of soap operas, most notably a play on the title of a very popular soap at the time, As the World Turns, and was featured on The Carol Burnett Show.
Balham, Gateway to the South is comedy sketch parodying a short travel documentary about the south London suburb of Balham.
On January 26, 2011, the channel released Hit 'em Up, a parody of Tupac Shakur's Hit 'Em Up. On December 21, 2011, I Run the Military was released.
The song was the second consecutive entry with a nonsense title to win the contest (after Massiel's triumph in 1968 with "La La La"), and became infamous in the comedy world - most notably inspiring Monty Python's Flying Circus to parody it with "Bing Tiddle-Tiddle Bong" (Python precursor I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again had previously had Bill Oddie do something similar with a song for which the title was rendered entirely in sound effects).
Souter reasoned that the "amount and substantiality" of the portion used by 2 Live Crew was reasonable in relation to the band's purpose in creating a parody of "Oh, Pretty Woman".
Her characters included Penny Lane (inheriting the role from Alisa Reyes, who herself had inhertited the role from Angelique Bates), the dental assistant for Dr. Bynes, Lieutenant Fondue, Jessica from Whateverrr!!!, Yoko from CJ and the Cloudy Knights, and Winter Wonders from What Do You Do? What Do You Do? was a parody of the Nickelodeon game show Figure It Out, and Winter Wonders was a parody of Summer Sanders.
Cliff Roth is an American filmmaker best known for a 1988 parody of the Just Say No anti-drug campaign called "The Reagans Speak Out On Drugs."
He is also referred to as Vitas Lu after making a parody of the song Opera No. 2 by the Russian singer Vitas, having the ability to hit the same high notes.
In general, DC Comics has led a parody of its own teams and organizations after the Watchmen storyline and Batman run from a dark humor style which began during the 1980s and ended in the early 90s.
Each germ asserted their plans to inflict suffering, sometimes in parody of well known films such as The Godfather, before being wiped out by a specific brand of Domestos.
In the UK on some local radio stations (namely Mix 107), a song about eco friendly travel choices (i.e. leaving the car for one day a week) would air during commercial breaks which would be a parody of Down By The Riverside.
In 2000, the label released a 7" by the Evolution Control Committee called "Rocked By Rape", a criticism and parody of violence on television which used words spoken by Dan Rather and sampled music from AC/DC.
This relationship between the two parents in this movie got parodied in a skit of the same name on the comedy series In Living Color.
A parody of 'The Old Lady who lived in a shoe'.
The parody was titled "Gangsta Lover", where Eve (portrayed by former MADtv cast member Debra Wilson) talks about dating criminals.
Two more sequels to Los Extermineitors followed, Extermineitors III: La gran pelea final and Extermineitors IV: Como hermanos gemelos, whose central argument was largely a parody of the classic Schwarzenegger/DeVito comedy Twins.
Christopher Guest, portraying lead guitarist Nigel Tufnel of the band Spinal Tap in the film This is Spinal Tap, is shown playing one guitar while playing another with his foot in both a display and parody of guitar showmanship.
Using parody, he targets historical and contemporary people using political and medial transcripts for his satires (e.g. Jürgen Rüttgers).
The Von Zipper character, leader of the Rat Pack motorcycle gang, was a parody of Marlon Brando's role in The Wild One (Von Zipper reveals in Beach Blanket Bingo that one of his idols was "Marlo Brandon".) Among other things, Von Zipper pronounced his judgments on others by saying "Him, I like", or "Him, I do not like".
Works attributed to Richard Henry include Monte Cristo, Jr (burlesque melodrama 1886); Jubilation (musical mixture 1887); Frankenstein, or The Vampire's Victim, a parody of the Mary Shelly novel Frankenstein, presented at the Gaiety Theatre, London, in 1887; and Opposition (a debate in one sitting 1892).
Hummingbird - small but aggressive wise guy with over the top groveling voice which is parody of Polish actor Witold Pyrkosz.
Waugh later lampooned his employer by portraying him as Lord Copper in Scoop and as Lord Monomark in both Put Out More Flags and Vile Bodies.
As the first generally available gay pornographic film, the film was the first to include on-screen credits for its cast and crew (albeit largely under pseudonyms), to parody the title of a mainstream film (in this case, The Boys in the Band), and to be reviewed by The New York Times.
At the estate of King Herman the 6⅞ (a parody of ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II), the deposed king of Moronica, war profiteers Ixnay (Vernon Dent), Amscray (Lynton Brent) and Umpchay (previously Onay) (Bud Jamison) have decided that they have had enough of Moe Hailstone, the fascist dictator they put in power, and want to help Herman retake the throne.
Iguanus was featured on the cover of issue #54 "King Con", a parody of King Kong.
Clinton Heylin reports that a Times reporter at a May 1964 Royal Festival Hall concert where Dylan first played "It Ain't Me" took the lines "no, no, no, it ain't me babe" as a parody of The Beatles' "She Loves You".
which was also the date of the second season premiere of Real Husbands of Hollywood, a comedy-improv reality television parody on BET created by Hart.
Another episode features Mal filming a program called "Mal vs. Wild" a parody of Man vs. Wild where Mal ingests insects as Bear Grylls does, and in the same episode during an awkward scene they reference Prank Patrol.
The album title and cover art parody the 1975 album Physical Graffiti by Led Zeppelin.
The band named themselves after the fictional Ocean Bottom Nightmare Band, from the Adult Swim cartoon Sealab 2021 (which itself was a parody of the song "The River Bottom Nightmare Band" played by The Nightmare in Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas television special).
In 2000, along with his friend, animator Graham Robertson, Stark created the popular online cartoon parody of the Budweiser "Whassup" commercial featuring clips from the Superfriends.
The brutal police squad sent to capture the robots is a parody of the Special Patrol Group.
Sara Nunes (born 1980) is a Finnish pop singer who gained some attention in 2005 after releasing her debut single "Simon Can't Sing" which was a parody of Simon Cowell, the famous American Idol & Pop Idol judge.
While the show's title translates to "school girls", and is a clear reference to Schulmädchen-Report, a series of soft core porn movies made in Germany in the 1970s, the show itself is a parody of imported American teen dramas such as the 1989 movie Heathers and television series Beverly Hills, 90210, which have long been popular in Germany.
After surviving the plunge over Victoria Falls, the family stumble upon a Chimpanzee sanctuary maintained by the scientist Dr. Joan Bushwell (a parody of Jane Goodall).
In 1978, Mancunian folk poet Les Barker released a comic parody entitled 'Sparky's Magic Contraceptive' on his live album, 'Mrs. Ackroyd: Superstar!'.
Str8 Outta Northcote is the second full-length album from Australian grindcore band Blood Duster, its title being a parody of the N.W.A album Straight Outta Compton.
The primary villain in the game is a parody of the late Leona Helmsley, the "Queen of Mean".
The title, The Cat's Me-Ouch! is a parody of the title of Tex Avery cartoon Cat's Meow, released on January 25, 1957, remake of Ventriloquist Cat (1950).
In 1979, the band released "Psycho Chicken", a parody of The Talking Heads' "Psycho Killer", and it was an immediate hit on Boston radio stations.
She waves goodbye to her classmates and the rest of Springfield - including Moe, who is holding a picture of her - singing another parody song ("Don't Cry for Me Argentina").
Benchley's disjointed parody so delighted those in attendance that Irving Berlin hired Benchley in 1923 to deliver the Report as part of Berlin's Music Box Revue for $500 a week.
The video itself is a parody of Leona Lewis' video for her debut single, "A Moment Like This", and the box art of the single is a parody of The Meaning of Love, the debut album from Michelle McManus, who won the second series of Pop Idol in 2003.
The first panel of a comic featuring I.H.O.T.F.M-Man is usually a parody of the cover of Action Comics 1.
The satirist Stephen Colbert, known for his parody of O'Reilly and other political pundits on his show The Colbert Report, has stated that his sci-fi character Tek Jansen was originally inspired by O'Reilly and Those Who Trespass.
In 1989, he sold Musicade and started Revolutionary Comics, which produced Rock 'N' Roll Comics, a line of unauthorized comic book biographies of rock stars prompted in part by the success of an unauthorized Bruce Springsteen parody comic called "Hey Boss."
Some of her recurring sketches include a parody of Fox & Friends, which she does with Taran Killam and Bobby Moynihan, as well as The Miley Cyrus Show, which she does with Jason Sudeikis and the show's host.