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A parody film or spoof film is a subgenre of comedy film that lampoons other film genres or films as pastiches, [1] [2] [3] works created by imitation of the style of many different films reassembled together. Although the subgenre is often overlooked by critics, parody films are commonly profitable at the box office. [4]
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).
[2] [3] News satire is a type of parody presented in a format typical of mainstream journalism, and called a satire because of its content. News satire is not to be confused with fake news that has the intent to mislead.
A type of satire, specifically a parody, in which an original work is made fun of by creating a similar but altered work. Spoof film (aka parody film), a cinematographic genre; Spoofing (anti-piracy measure), a technique to curb unlawful online downloading
Spoof/Parody Humorous Recreation of a book, film or play, either to pay homage or to ridicule the original Mel Brooks , Joe Alaskey , French and Saunders , Mitchell and Webb , I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue , Dom Joly , Peter Serafinowicz , Weird Al Yankovic , Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker ; Films and TV shows: Airplane! , Family Guy , Shriek , Look ...
The 1 Up Fever (2013), mockumentary about Bitcoin and augmented reality video games.; 2gether (2000), spoof of boy bands like N*Sync and The Backstreet Boys.; 7 Days in Hell (2015), a fictional documentary-style exposé on the rivalry between two of the greatest tennis players of all time who battled it out in a 2001 match that lasted seven days.
Satirical advertisement on the topic of Australia Day, produced by The Juice Media.. A parody advertisement is a fictional advertisement for a non-existent product, either done within another advertisement for an actual product, or done simply as parody of advertisements—used either as a way of ridiculing or drawing negative attention towards a real advertisement or such an advertisement's ...
News satire or news comedy is a type of parody presented in a format typical of mainstream journalism, and called a satire because of its content. News satire has been around almost as long as journalism itself, but it is particularly popular on the web, with websites like The Onion and The Babylon Bee, where it is relatively easy to mimic a legitimate news site.