spoofery

Glam rock and its androgynous spoofery is back, sort of.

As one who works in psychology, it's hard to resist this program's spoofery."

The most recent volume of Dilbert and Dogbert workplace spoofery.

Once ensconced in their small apartments, they find that gracious entertaining sinks into good-natured spoofery.

Studio/commercial efforts, cartoons, and spoofery:

Such whimsical word play sets the tone for the revue, which has nothing weightier than show business spoofery - no political or social comment - on its mind.

So is the spook spoofery, straight out of Graham Greene's Havana and John le Carré's Panama.

The story is ridiculous spoofery: the population of a city that has been desiccated by drought revolts against the corrupt alliance of business and government that controls public toilets.

Mr. Shawn's decades at the New Yorker also included an apparent permutation in his own writing: it seemed to rise from humble spoofery to occasional heights of Olympian solemnity.

The giggles and snorts induced by P. G. Wodehouse, the master of dry spoofery, have everything to do with the language of propriety applied to the presumption of privilege.

Earl Ofari Hutchinson, president of the Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable, said, "Depicting the president as demonic and a socialist goes beyond political spoofery.

Johnny Depp is a domesticated chameleon who assumes the role of sheriff in a frontier town populated by desert creatures in this trippy animation western, full of spoofery and parody.

Matthew Gilbert of The Boston Globe called the show a "relentless, mediocre spoofery that so desperately wants to remind us of Monty Python and the Holy Grail".

The filmmakers quoted another part of Thomas' review in their advertising, attempting to spin the negative into a positive: "Spoofery in nonsensical shenanigans are meant to be the order of the day."

Alexander Walker of the Evening Standard called it "A Spot of Spiffing Spoofery" while the Time Out reviewer said "it is beautifully acted and consistently spot on".

Director Michel Hazanavicius is well-versed in spoofery (his two previous projects with Dujardin were the OSS 117 films; colourful send-ups of mid-century spy romps), but The Artist is no pastiche.

Time called it a "jaunty but slipshod farce"; "Having saddled himself with an idea that often seems too silly for words, Director Malle rides to the rescue with more anti-state, anti-church, antedated spoofery than he can gracefully handle.

Beneath the giddy slapstick and spoofery (one of her numbers is a hilarious Celine Dion takeoff called "Love Is My Legs"), there's an unshakable core of sincerity that's sometimes oddly sad and never less than riveting.

At any rate, that Baum knew of Turner is confirmed by his spoofery of an "Otis Werner" in his Aunt Jane's Nieces Out West, a fictional account inspired by his optimism as an independent filmmaker.

Although its blend of mayhem and spoofery seems ideally suited to 12-year-old boys, "Kung Fu Hustle," unlike the version of "Shaolin Soccer" released in the United States, is sufficiently bloody and profane to warrant an R rating.

The later series were much more lavish; the movie spoofs benefiting from being shot as if they were the real thing: Titanic, The Silence Of The Lambs, Thelma and Louise and Gone With The Wind were all subjects of their zany, well researched and very accurate spoofery.