sendup

For older observers, the maritime metaphor recalls a sendup of Wall Street, "Where Are the Customers 'Yachts?", first published in 1940 and reissued seven years ago.

Connecting.the.Dots 2008

They might characterize that bit of nonsense as merely a "sendup" and the missing citations as exercises deliberately left for the reader.

'Computers in Your Future' Feigenbaum, Edward A. 1983

But the opera is a comedy, and the production—a sendup of the sacred cows of German Art and Culture—is a hoot that, for the most part, goes with the music and the text.

At Richard Wagner's Old Stamping Grounds Heidi Waleson 2011

At this distance—not just from France but from the France of the '60s—the film's social criticism seems quaint: Jean-Louis, his wife Suzanne Sandrine Kiberlain and their rigid friends and associates could be fugitives from a Jacques Tati sendup of bourgeois foibles.

Beware 'Ides of March'; Viva Maids of 'Women' Joe Morgenstern 2011

Perhaps she's remembering an Army sendup of "Telephone" that went viral on YouTube.

A pyrotechnic bikini? Lady Gaga gives D.C.'s 'little monsters' what they want. 2011

Our chills multiplied and we almost lost control anticipating a musical montage, but then the Travolta/Newton John sendup ended up on the cutting-room floor.

The James Franco/Anne Hathaway 'Grease' routine: Now it can be seen 2011

He's flattered by copycats and loves Alien Ant Farm's cover of Smooth Criminal, including the video sendup of Jackson's quirks.

Archive: Michael in the mirror 2009

I know, I know, it's a satire, a sendup of rallies, a rally against rallies, a mockery of the entire concept, a grass-roots-inspired, user-generated parody.

The case against Jon Stewart's Rally to Restore Sanity, by a 'Daily Show' fan Carlos Lozada 2010

There and elsewhere in the story, Hemon nails the macho posturing that prize judges often reward, though his tale is more than a sendup of pomposity.

2009 September 07 « One-Minute Book Reviews 2009

Witness the madcap antics of "The 39 Steps," the Hitchcock sendup still raking in laughs off-Broadway, or the caustic sneer of "Speed-the-Plow," David Mamet's comic slap at deal making in Hollywood.

'Brief Encounter': Mad about its style Peter Marks 2010