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Examples
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Even a self-parodying guest appearance by Andy Warhol cannot shake any value into the proceedings.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2010
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That's not to say that self-parodying Blaxploitation films did not exist, but the overwhelming majority of the films within the genre during its prime were not meant to be viewed as jokes.
This Week in DVD & Blu-ray: Law Abiding Citizen, Black Dynamite, Cabin Fever 2, and More | /Film 2010
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That sentence couldn't be more self-parodying if it were written for the Onion.
Jesuit: Obama is "the most effective spokesperson" for "the spirit of Vatican II" 2009
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Even as the comic-book writers tried to move away from that self-parodying characterization, they couldn't leave Robin's sense of humor behind.
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He makes a big, self-parodying Italian-American shrug and says, "Well, I'm an actor!"
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Even as the comic-book writers tried to move away from that self-parodying characterization, they couldn't leave Robin's sense of humor behind.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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We will do anything to get attention these days, and usually that means being self-parodying and ridiculous for the sole purpose of standing out and capturing an audience.
Adrien Field: Where Did the Glamour Go? Adrien Field 2011
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He does need to sharpen his focus, not worry so much about his success with Rachel McAdams-type gals, and keep a step ahead of the self-parodying right wing.
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We will do anything to get attention these days, and usually that means being self-parodying and ridiculous for the sole purpose of standing out and capturing an audience.
Adrien Field: Where Did the Glamour Go? Adrien Field 2011
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And to the sweetly theatrical lighting of the interior scenes in "Le Havre"—the cinematographer was Timo Salminen—not to mention, though I will, the name of Marcel's wife Arletty, as in the star of Carné's "Children of Paradise", or the presence of such veteran French actors as Jean-Pierre Darroussin, who plays a slightly self-parodying police inspector, and, ever so briefly, Jean-Pierre Léaud, the star of countless films by François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard.
'Margin Call': Thrills, Chills of Financial Ills Joe Morgenstern 2011
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