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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.
This is a list of satirical television news programs with a satirical bent, or parodies of news broadcasts, with either real or fake stories for mainly humorous purposes. . The list does not include sitcoms or other programs set in a news-broadcast work environment, such as the US Mary Tyler Moore, the UK's Drop The Dead Donkey, the Australian Frontline, or the Canadian The Newsr
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).
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.
The parody closely follows the outline of The Lord of the Rings, lampooning the prologue and map of Middle-earth; its main text is a short satirical summary of Tolkien's plot. The witty text combines slapstick humour and deliberately inappropriate use of brand names. [2] For example, the carbonated beverages Moxie and Pepsi replace Merry and ...
To date there are three sequels. [33] Happy Porter is a parody of Harry Potter series in Indonesia. [34] Hayri Potur Harry Potter'a Karşı (Hayri Potur against Harry Potter) is a parody of the Harry Potter series in Turkey which is written by Muzaffer İzgü. [35] Harry Pórrez was a parody of Harry Potter series.
Parody film. 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]
Dave Spart is a parody of a stereotypical left-wing agitator who featured in editions of the 1970s and from time to time since (for example, after the 2011 England riots and following the split in Jeremy Corbyn's Shadow Cabinet over the bombing of Syria and military intervention against ISIL). Occasionally, his sister, Deirdre Spart, has ...