The whirling plot is punctuated by affectionate send-ups of multicultural Britishness.
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Of course, BoJack isn't without its classic absurd send-ups of Hollywoo(d).
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Wilder's characters, particularly those created by Mel Brooks, were almost always absurd—send-ups of familiar, often exhausted tropes.
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The loving send-ups of arcane detail tickle the cognoscenti, while the perfectly timed slapstick offers belly laughs for all.
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In India they tend to focus on serious and religious issues; Trinidadian memes are more often send-ups of politicians.
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When you learn for the first time that weird B-movie musical send-ups, and the people who rally around them, can save you.
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Saturday Night Live set aside lame send-ups of famous political personalities for something a bit more real in its latest cold open sketch.
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Of its initial send-ups, two out of the three that include social media components have fewer than 150 followers combined across their Twitter and Instagram pages.
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For me, these read in part as send-ups of the genre of rough-hewn, macho, fork-lift-enabled sculpture that arose in the US the 1960s.
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After-hours television was built around the set-piece interview and guest appearance when Letterman's "Late Night" broke the mold in 1982 with absurd pranks and send-ups.
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Writing in a breezy, conversational style, Reid has a knack for creating recognizable characters — both Alix and Kelley are particularly devastating send-ups of a certain kind of earnest white liberal.
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Guilloux's notebooks make clear that more than a realist, he was a voice writer, testing dialogues and send-ups of bourgeois language, recording conversations, and compiling lists of idioms and ridiculous expressions.
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The paintings of Robert Colescott, who died in 2009 at the age of 83, are most often associated with nasty send-ups of white culture in general and Western art history in particular.
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One of the show's co-curators is Montgomery Perry Smith, who is both an artist and participant in Brooklyn's drag scene as Patti Spliff (yes, she performs drag send-ups of Patti Smith songs).
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But it nonetheless feels… fraught to reskin more characters traditionally associated with "the good guys" into cartoonish send-ups of police forces, especially in a game designed by an American studio such as Blizzard.
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There was more to Reynolds than his hypermasculinity, as was apparent in his uproarious self-send-ups on Johnny Carson's "The Tonight Show" and his romantic involvement with the much older and more sophisticated Dinah Shore.
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It's what makes Wright's film so appealing, really: grand genre experiments and send-ups of our favorite movies, made by that fun kid who lived down the road and had a wall of VHS tapes at home.
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In the past few years, Reddit communities once devoted to outré subjects, everything from InfoWars' Alex Jones to objectifying tall women, have seen themselves hijacked and replaced by tame, often literal-minded send-ups of their original purpose.
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The fearless maverick artists Robert Colescott and Peter Saul made many vulgar and tasteless send-ups of Willem de Kooning — parodies that come to mind in light of the exhibition, Richard Prince: High Times at Gagosian, but more on that later.
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Seventy-five percent of the film's carpet-bomb campaign of pop culture meta punchlines will ricochet over the target audience's head, but parents dragged along for the ride will no doubt be grateful for Arnett's rat-a-tat send-ups of Adam West and superhero clichés.
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It's the first of many Quentin Tarantino-like references to the era -- among them Son of Sam and a later "Saturday Night Fever" dance routine -- which only that send-ups of nostalgic pop culture should largely be left to the experts, since it can be heavy-handed here.
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In one of the novel's joyous send-ups of academic discourse, when Bayard first finds Herzog the professor is lecturing on James Bond; and at every subsequent point on their journey, much like Bond being hunted by Smersh, Binet's characters, too, are everywhere stalked by shadowy figures, seeking, or trying to destroy, the seventh function.
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In March, the first four send-ups went out over the course of a week: one went after nonsense claims about DNA testing, another skewered gun nuts, a third offered a ridiculous Myers-Briggs type test that claims to analyze your personality, and the fourth parodied companies like Casper that sell a single product that can cure everything.
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The theater send-ups come fast and furious (a bit about Broadway dance moves had me near tears), and the purposefully stupid show-within-a-show provides a great avenue for many gags, as well as an amusing subplot that finds a dumbo reality show star (an excellent John Behlmann) with a penchant for baring his abs nursing a crush on Dorothy.
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If Greenberg or Frank Stella, who said in an interview, "I tried to keep the paint as good as it was in the can," failed to convince you that the paint stroke was passé, perhaps you were persuaded by Roy Lichtenstein's send-ups of Abstract Expressionism's supposed spontaneity in paintings such as "Brushstroke" (1965), which was derived from an image in a comic book.
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Dallas's Cris Worley Fine Arts is showing new paintings by Marc Dennis, who, in the past, working in a hyperrealist mode, conjured up cheeky send-ups of art history, such as a picture of two superheroes and a Russian mobster ogling the barmaid in Édouard Manet's iconic "A Bar at the Folies-Bergère" (1882), or a version of Diego Velázquez's "Las Meninas" (18073) featuring a disco ball.
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" Currently co-starring opposite Kumail Nanjiani and Dave Bautista in the action-buddy comedy film "Stuber," Sorvino's been at work reminding audiences of her comedy chops, including a recent recurring stint on "Modern Family" as the spaced-out influencer/mogul behind a Goop-like lifestyle brand.. "That was just a jumping off point," she says of the sitcom stint, which wasn't as directly parodying Goop guru Gwyneth Paltrow as many imagined -- she found inspiration in Paltrow's own funny send-ups of herself and took it "one hundred steps further...I really wanted to make her different.
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Yaahting was an example of the parody genre that flourished in the 1970s and '80s, inspired by other magazine send- ups produced by The Harvard Lampoon and others.
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A character originally from Australia You're Standing In It (and later in Fast Forward), Bruce Rump, was based on him. Bruce Rump would rant in a voice similar to Ruxton's, sometimes reaching a violent frenzy and ending with the non-sequitur "... and that's why we should keep the bloody flag the same!" The send ups of Bruce Rump would often also be send ups of long running Australian children's TV series Romper Room, referred to as "Rumper Room". Ruxton made fun of himself by releasing a rap single, in which he lampooned his own persona.
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All four seasons were re-released in 2010. In 2013, the Network Ten-owned channel, One, began airing half-hour-long specials titled Fast Forward Funniest Send- Ups which first aired in 1994, making it the first time the show has been shown since 1998.
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Two of the group's videos have been in the form of humorous, tongue-in-cheek send-ups of the public service announcement format, delivered in song, and composed of original material. Their videos have included guest appearances by fellow NYC musical luminaries, such as Amy Kohn and Franz Nicolay.
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The college holds internal examinations to assess the ability of the students and prepare them for the Board Examinations. Progress tests, Send Ups and Pre- Board Examinations are a feature of the college schedule. The parents and guardians are kept informed of their son's or ward's overall performance and attitude. Students showing consistently poor performance are withdrawn from the college.
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However, the influence of Gilbert and Sullivan goes beyond musical theatre to comedy in general. Professor Carolyn Williams notes: "The influence of Gilbert and Sullivan – their wit and sense of irony, the send ups of politics and contemporary culture – goes beyond musical theater to comedy in general. Allusions to their work have made their way into our own popular culture".Schwab, Michael.
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Devil's Film entered the adult parody market in 2009 with the release of Coctomom, a spoof inspired by tabloid sensation Nadya Suleman ("Octomom") after giving birth to octuplets through in vitro fertilisation. Parodies of HBO's Big Love, AMC's Mad Men, ABC's The Bachelor and NBC's The Biggest Loser soon followed, along with send-ups of Fast Times at Ridgemont High and the entire Twilight Saga.
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In addition to standard humor, parody, spoof, and pastiche have had a long tradition within the field of crime fiction. Examples of pastiche are the Sherlock Holmes stories written by John Dickson Carr, and hundreds of similar works by such authors as E. B. Greenwood. As for parody, the first Sherlock Holmes spoofs appeared shortly after Conan Doyle published his first stories. Similarly, there have been innumerable Agatha Christie send-ups.
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In 1979, Morice created a school of poetry called Cutism. "His Cutist Anthology includes poems by Sally Lunchkins, Tommy Triped, and others, 'Have a nice day' artwork by Roberta Periwinkleshoe, and the requisite defensive polemic by Samuel F. Romular. Morice's send-ups attest to his connection to a school of poetry that began in Iowa City… called Actualism."Weinstein, Jeff, "Poetry in Motion," New York, NY: The Village Voice, Vol.
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9 Professor Carolyn Williams has noted, however: "The influence of Gilbert and Sullivan – their wit and sense of irony, the send ups of politics and contemporary culture – goes beyond musical theater to comedy in general. Allusions to their work have made their way into our own popular culture".Schwab, Michael. "Why Gilbert and Sullivan Still Matter" , Rutgers Today, 26 March 2012 Gilbert and Sullivan expert and enthusiast Ian Bradley agrees: The works of Gilbert and Sullivan are themselves frequently pastiched and parodied.
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Throughout the history of The Continuous Call Team, music has been an integral part of the program with send ups of popular songs of any era and genre. Lyrically, these songs have been directed at anyone or anything related to rugby league (be it referees, clubs, players, coaches and the like). The songs are written and many are also performed by The Robertson Brothers who are exclusively commissioned by and to The Continuous Call Team, as well as other aspiring performers.
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Three Scott Joplin rags provide the work's structure: Maple Leaf Rag (1899) opens the dance, followed by the waltz Bethena (1905) and Elite Syncopations (1902); a reprise of Maple Leaf Rag concludes the dance. The work is brimming with parodies of Graham's signature moves and send-ups of her best-known dances. Her twirling white-clad surrogate crosses the stage intermittently, accompanied each time by ill-boding percussive piano. Graham also pokes fun at the overwrought sexuality of some her repertory.
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Downey's television roles are often authority figures or professional women with slightly eccentric personalities, such as Principal Sue in Sit Down, Shut Up and the "relationship-counselor" Marion seen in comedy series Kath & Kim. On Fast Forward, Marg Downey appeared in a lot of sketches with Steve Vizard, such as Eyeball News, The Midday Show, Candid Camera, The Cosby Show and Get Smart. Downey also played Clancy in the Skippy send-up, and appeared in send- ups of I Dream Of Jeannie, Mr Ed and Bewitched.
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Fuckbook is an album released by indie rock band Yo La Tengo under the alias Condo Fucks in 2009. The band name comes from an inner sleeve listing fake albums and genre send-ups included in their 1997 album I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One. Guitarist Ira Kaplan and drummer Georgia Hubley are credited on this album as Kid Condo and Georgia Condo, respectively. The Matador press release for the album creates a fictional backstory for the band that hints at the truth.
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" Michaelangelo Matos of The A.V. Club considered the song "one of the few genuinely funny hip-hop send-ups of recent years." Jess Harvell of Pitchfork wrote, that it "suffers from a bad Dave Chappelle joke title, but redeemed by the fact that it's 2:38 of boasting so compressed you'll play it a million times in a row." Jaime Gill of Yahoo! Music UK called the song "the kind of minimal, oddball pop that Pharrell Williams made before his spectacular loss of form.
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Laurel specialized in parodies in the mid-1920s, writing and acting in a number of them. Some were send-ups of popular films, such as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde—parodied in the comic Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde (1926). Others were spoofs of Broadway plays, such as No, No, Nanette (1925), parodied as Yes, Yes, Nanette (1925). In 1940 Charlie Chaplin created a satirical comedy about Adolf Hitler with the film The Great Dictator, following the first-ever Hollywood parody of the Nazis, the Three Stooges' short subject You Nazty Spy!.
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Roger Ebert approved of the film, awarding three out of four stars and declaring it to not only be "fun", but also a "sly series of send-ups", effectively parodying many elemental film storylines. In his opinion, Gremlins did this partly through depictions of mysterious worlds (the shop in Chinatown) and tyrannical elderly women (Mrs. Deagle). Ebert also believed the rule in which a mogwai cannot eat after midnight was inspired by fairy tales, and that the final scenes parody classic horror films. He connected Kate's speech about her father with "the great tradition of 1950s sick jokes".
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Soul Music is notable for having numerous allusions to various aspects of the music industry, including groupies, music- recording devices, and most notably the history of rock and roll. The Geeky Guide To Everything noted "Each new number depicted a different aspect or period of rock music ranging from the likes of beat music all the way to the Beatles. And this made for an entertaining musical and visual experience". NeedCoffee said "the songs that The Band with Rocks In sings manage to be send-ups and faithful recreations of the various styles rock-n-roll has been through".
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The Uncanny X-Men got their name from the Marvel comic of the same name. Uncanny X-Men were originally a four piece band formed in the late 1970s and consisted of Brian Mannix (vocals, guitar), Michael Helms (bass), Nick Matandos (drums) and Ron Thiessen (guitar) and were a regular Wednesday night attraction at the Pier Hotel in Frankston, Victoria. In 1981, the line-up changed when Helms left and Chuck Hargreaves on guitar and Steve Harrison on bass guitar joined Mannix, Matandos and Thiessen.Mannix became known for his mischievous and comical send-ups of other artists.
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The team also performed live revue-style send-ups of current TV shows such as The Sullivans, or chaotic parodies of soap operas, police shows and other popular TV genres. Like Kennedy's, the humour was of the wink-wink, nudge-nudge variety—viewers became accustomed to Blackman's voice-over snigger—and the satire was broad and skit-level, rather than sharp and disturbing. The show aimed to please its lower-middle-class demographic and succeeded well. Like IMT, the earliest years of Hey Hey were marked by a similar "anything can happen" attitude, with sketches and improvisations stretched to the point of absurdity or terminated without warning.
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Murder by Death is a 1976 American comedy mystery film directed by Robert Moore and written by Neil Simon. The film stars Eileen Brennan, Truman Capote, James Coco, Peter Falk, Alec Guinness, Elsa Lanchester, David Niven, Peter Sellers, Maggie Smith, Nancy Walker, and Estelle Winwood. The plot is a broad parody or spoof of the traditional country-house whodunit, familiar to mystery fiction fans of classics such as Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None. The cast is an ensemble of British and American actors playing send-ups of well-known fictional sleuths, including Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, Charlie Chan, Nick and Nora Charles, and Sam Spade.
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In particular, he has chronicled the resurgence of anti-Semitism in Europe and in America. He is also known for his satirical send-ups of anti-Semites on Twitter, and more serious efforts to combat abuse on online platforms. A frequent speaker and commentator on these topics, he has addressed audiences in locales as varied as New York, Seattle, Austin's South By Southwest, Jerusalem's Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism, and the Limmud conference in Melbourne, Australia. Rosenberg has been interviewed and cited by the New York Times, Washington Post, Associated Press, CNN, Fast Company, CBC News, and the Rachel Maddow Show,, among others.
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The film contains archival footage from the 21st-century recession paired with "comedic send-ups" from Brand, conducted in the financial districts of London and New York. In one scene in the film, Brand attempts to confront Lord Rothermere, the billionaire owner of the Daily Mail, about his "non-dom" tax status, through which he avoids paying taxes in the United Kingdom by claiming residence elsewhere. When Brand rings the bell at Rothermere's London mansion and asks through the intercom to speak to him, he is told by an unseen person that Rothermere does indeed live there. Winterbottom stated that the film will explore why "nothing has changed" since the economic crisis in 2008.
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Amongst more recent Welsh writers in English, Niall Griffiths is notable for his novels Grits (2000) and Sheepshagger (2001), which portray a grittier side to Welsh literature; and Malcolm Pryce who has writing a number of humorous send ups of noir such as Aberystwyth Mon Amour (2001). Both of these writers were born in England, but have Welsh roots and are now Welsh based, and write much on Welsh subject matter. Nikita Lalwani, is originally from Rajasthan in India, but was raised in Wales, and her novel Gifted (2007) was nominated for the Man Booker Prize. Trezza Azzopardi's debut novel The Hiding Place (2000) was also nominated for the Booker Prize, and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, winning the latter.
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The series did a test for their ability to reach youth voters of the Wisconsin primary, releasing PSAs directed at Sanders, Clinton and Cruz voters to BringitWisconsin.gov, a voter ID info site. The series creator, Carey Lundin, president of Viva Lundin Productions, read an article that showed Governor Scott Walker had passed a new set of IDs to be brought to the polls, then failed to promote it. he PSAs Subsequent send-ups of news coverage including "Who Cut the Cheese" about presidential candidate Ted Cruz's refusal to don a cheese hat, have been extremely popular with the Millennial audience. In 2008, Lundin commissioned Duffy Lyons, "The Butter Cow Lady of Iowa" and Iowa's most beloved person, to sculpt a Butter Head of Barack Obama.
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His own contributions included a fiery editorial, an article on the arms race and a rebuttal of a defence of fascism supplied from Oundle School. There were poems, some literary criticism, a letters page, an article on conditions in girls' schools, and some humorous send-ups of public school life. Despite the relatively moderate overall tone, the Daily Mail denounced the magazine as a "Reds' New Attack" and quoted from the editorial: "We shall infuriate every schoolmaster over 30 (and some under) throughout England" On 14 April the organisation of Out of Bounds was formalised when a meeting of some 16 delegates from a range of schools appointed a permanent editorial board under Romilly's chairmanship. Next day this board marched to Hyde Park, as part of a demonstration against the National Government's budget policy, under a banner denouncing the "National Government of Hunger, Fascism and War".
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Outside of hip hop, most lyrical references to Trump have appeared in songs ranging from satires of the billionaire, to outright protest in varying degrees of explicitness. One of the earliest Trump send-ups was the 1990 ballad "Donald Trump (Black Version)" written by Prince for fellow Minneapolis act the Time in which singer Morris Day calls himself a black version of Donald Trump, who can use his riches to "fulfill [a woman's] every wish, [and her] every dream". In 1992 Irish folk- rock group Goats Don't Shave had a #4 hit with "Las Vegas in the Hills of Donegal," which references Trump's casino business in imagining an Irish county that becomes a gambling mecca. More recently, songs like "Fergus Laing" by English folk singer Richard Thompson present thinly veiled references to Trump without mentioning him by name, while songs like "Fucked Up Donald" by Canadian punk band D.O.A. are more direct.
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Christmas specials normally included a spoof of a traditional pantomime (or several combined). They had few qualms about the use of puns – old, strained or inventive – and included some jokes and catchphrases that would seem politically incorrect by the mid-1990s. Garden's impressions of the legendary rugby league commentator Eddie Waring and the popular Scottish TV presenter Fyfe Robertson, Oddie's frequent send- ups of the game-show host Hughie Green, and Cleese's occasional but manic impressions of Patrick Moore (astronomer and broadcaster) built these people into eccentric celebrities in a way that the Mike Yarwood, Rory Bremner, Spitting Image and Dead Ringers programmes did for other TV presenters with similar disrespect years later. As the only woman on the show, Jo Kendall voiced all the female characters (with the exception of Brooke-Taylor's oversexed harridan, Lady Constance de Coverlet) and demonstrated a tremendous range and versatility, which occasionally extended into having conversations with herself in different voices.
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Chance sightings of Madame Galina shows by various producers led to Edwards being showcased by Chrysalis TV, winning Busker Of The Year, and to The Big Breakfast covering his first Edinburgh Festival in 2001. He has been touring theatres ever since in Anything For A Tenor, Madame Galina Ballet Star Galactica/The New Forces' Sweetheart and Along Came Bill. Edwards was featured by Ruby Wax in her BBC Three series Ruby Does The Business, and profiled by Artsworld and in Channel 4's All Sorts, his main TV credit is Madame Galina's Whirlwind Guide To Ballet, also Channel 4, a tie in with the four-part Rough Guide To Choreography, made by Sceptre Productions for Channel 4 and featuring George Piper Dances. His entry in the Rough Guide To Choreography book describes Madame Galina thus: "This oversized mock-Russian ballerina fabricates lovingly tart send-ups of classical technique, diva-style celebrity and all the attendant pretensions".
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The content of the stump speech varied widely. Some were pure nonsense, such as Richard Pelham's "A Brief Battering at the Blues". Historian Robert Toll offers this excerpt as typical of the type: > Feller-feller and oder fellers, when Joan of Ark and his broder Noah's Ark > crossed de Rubicund in search of Decamoran's horn, and meeting dat solitary > horseman by de way, dey anapulated in de clarion tones of de clamurous > rooster, de insignificition of de — de — de — de hop-toad am a very big bird > — du da — du da day — does it not prove dat where gold is up to a discount > of two cups of coffee on de dollar, dat bolivers must fall back into de > radience of de-de — anything else, derefore, at once and exclusively proving > de fact dat de afore-mentioned accounts for de milk in de cocoa-nut!Marc 28, > quoting Toll, Blacking Up. Spelling and punctuation as in the original. Other stump speeches were send-ups of science or philosophy that parodied the lyceum lectures popular with the educated middle class in the 1850s.
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