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978-0-575-07362-3. Bored of the Rings is a 1969 parody of J. R. R. Tolkien 's The Lord of the Rings. This short novel was written by Henry Beard and Douglas Kenney, who later founded National Lampoon. It was published in 1969 by Signet for The Harvard Lampoon, and, unusually for a parody, has remained in print for over 50 years.
The best-known example is The Onion, the online version of which started in 1996. [1] These sites are not to be confused with fake news websites, which deliberately publish hoaxes in an attempt to profit from gullible readers.
A parody is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or mock its subject by means of satirical or ironic imitation.Often its subject is an original work or some aspect of it (theme/content, author, style, etc), but a parody can also be about a real-life person (e.g. a politician), event, or movement (e.g. the French Revolution or 1960s counterculture).
This category may require frequent maintenance to avoid becoming too large. It should directly contain very few, if any, pages and should mainly contain subcategories. In contemporary usage, parody is a form of satire that imitates another work of art in order to ridicule it. Parody exists in all art media, including literature, music and cinema.
Asterix and the Black Gold is largely a parody of James Bond, with a Roman secret spy who is a caricature of Sean Connery. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier features a ruthless and sadistic British spy named Jimmy, descended from the League's 19th-century go-between Campion Bond.
Self-referential humor, also known as self-reflexive humor, self-aware humor, or meta humor, is a type of comedic expression [1] that—either directed toward some other subject, or openly directed toward itself—is self-referential in some way, intentionally alluding to the very person who is expressing the humor in a comedic fashion, or to some specific aspect of that same comedic expression.
B. Barack the Barbarian. Bart of Darkness. Barthood. Battle for Britain (Private Eye) Beau Peep. Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown.
When the antiphrasal use is very common, the word can become an auto-antonym, [3] having opposite meanings depending on context. For example, Spanish dichoso [ 4 ] originally meant "fortunate, blissful" as in tierra dichosa , "fortunate land", but it acquired the ironic and colloquial meaning of "infortunate, bothersome" as in ¡Dichosas moscas ...