Others are whimsical sendups of Chinese officials, including Carrie Lam, the city's embattled leader.
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There are more Trump-branded spoofs, parodies and sendups than there are Trump-branded hotels.
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Not all of Kool A.D.'s wry sendups of hip-hop chauvinism land just right.
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It's long been popular among China watchers and China-based journalists for its sendups of Chinese officialdom.
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Cher, we learn, has been wounded by being a punch line, and these iterations of her aren't sendups.
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And in the first four episodes of the season, there are plenty of sendups of the modern liberal worldview.
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Sixteen percent have not enjoyed the recent "SNL" sendups of Trump-administration officials, and 31 percent remain uncertain or have no opinion.
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The fake institute, complete with serious-looking people in white lab coats, evoked Albert Brooks's classic sendups of the conventions of comedy.
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Among the novel's delightful sendups: mindfulness apps, detailed renditions of VC presentations, and MorningRave, a clean-living dance party to start the day.
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Mr. Egan's site, The Burrard Street Journal, offers sendups of the news, not fake news, and he is not trying to fool anyone.
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Across the group's nine full-length efforts, they've embraced–and at times defined–everything from chiming guitar pop to hedonistic rave sendups and back again.
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Using tropes from Surrealism, Pop Art and advertising, her cartoonish pieces are sharp, humorous sendups of feminine clichés: the lipstick tube, the handbag, the manicure.
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That NBC sketch comedy series is renowned for its sendups of the electoral horse race, its lampooning of political figures and appearances from their real-life counterparts.
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The contemporary parts are reminiscent of Thomas Pynchon and, especially, Hill's fellow Midwesterner David Foster Wallace in their aerialist prose, deadpan dialogue and fantastical sendups of late-capitalist life.
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Stella Artois -- On their own, the sendups of "Sex and the City" and "The Big Lebowski" -- and the characters played by Sarah Jessica Parker and Jeff Bridges -- would have been mildly clever.
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The sexy anthropomorphic hot dogs that Ivy Haldeman paints in gauzy near-silhouette with a limited palette of colors borrowed from an old Gahan Wilson cartoon could be sendups of advertising or American gender roles.
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But there are delights for adults as well, particularly in the first half, with sendups of various comic book series (some aimed at DC's own arch-nemesis, Marvel) and an extra-large supply of spoofs on other movies.
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Be it Tina Fey's bumbling Sarah Palin or Darrell Hammond's robotic Al Gore or even Larry David's kvetching Bernie Sanders, SNL's purified and boiled-down sendups help define who these figures are in a way that holds tremendous power.
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After nearly a dozen of them, he's better loved than paid, and best (but not well enough) known not only for his guitar wizardry and his urbane honky-tonk wit but for his crafty country songs and his wicked sendups of such songs.
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Late-night hosts shared Super Tuesday results during what Stephen Colbert called "Old Man Wednesday," with most monologues focusing on Joe Biden's 10-state sweep and Jimmy Fallon doing his best Biden and Bernie Sanders impersonations in sendups of their Tuesday night rallies.
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As Mike Hale wrote in his review for The New York Times, "'Sherman's Showcase,' meanwhile, is a pure jolt of stylized nostalgia, from its affectionate sendups of soul, R&B and hip-hop to its candy-colored sets with their abstract cutouts, traversed by roller-skating dancers."
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The new season — it's the third, but in a public-television in-joke, it's billed as the 52nd — includes sendups of Netflix's "Wild, Wild Country" with Owen Wilson in the guru role and of "Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present" with Cate Blanchett as a soulfully imperious performance artist.
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With hindsight, some critics wondered if his sendups of Nazi bigwigs and fascist foot soldiers hadn't been a little too funny, like the poem "Joebbels," which in thick Berlin dialect deflates the Führer's diminutive propaganda minister, or a spoof Hitler Youth essay weighing who was the greater German, Goethe or Hitler.
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Ricksican standoffs and Stand by Me sendups aside, the social inequality-skewering second-best gave a whole new insight into the depths the Rick and Morty universe is capable of, and the kind of plot-twist-callback-cliffhanger that suggests Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland's sci-fi shitshow is only getting started.
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As is tradition, Davidson's problematic act triggers all kinds of sendups of Broadway musicals, including Thompson as the Phantom of La Guardia and a passenger played Gyllenhaal, wearing pajamas and levitating with the help of a harness, as he sings a song set to "Defying Gravity" about how much he loves airport security.
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Until that point in its lifespan, Disney hadn't really gotten comfortable parodying its own brand; the brief meta-jokes that distinguished animated films Aladdin (22011) and The Emperor's New Groove (22013) from more self-serious entries in the Disney canon made them unique outliers, rather than evidence that the Mouse was growing more open to affectionate self-sendups.
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Included are sendups of musicals, movies (Mary Poppins and Bond themes) and commercials, each lovingly and lethally delivered. There are 53 cuts in all, and most of them, like the show itself, stand up to repeated listenings. A treasure." Alan Sepinwall of The Star-Ledger was more critical, writing that "Unfortunately, Songs in the Key [...] used up most of the show's best musical inventory, leaving only assorted scraps for Go Simpsonic.
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Enid Strict, better known as The Church Lady, is a recurring character from a series of sketches on the American television show, Saturday Night Live, that appeared from 1986 to 1990, and again in 1996, 2000, 2011, and 2016. She also appeared on The Dana Carvey Show in March 1996, reading a Top Ten List, "New Titles for Princess Diana."James, Caryn TELEVISION REVIEW;Sendups of Forbes, Clinton and Royalty The New York Times (March 14, 1996). Retrieved on 5-09-10.
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Pamela Adlon has received significant praise for her acting, writing, and directing, with critics citing her as one of TV's best auteurs. The first season has a Metacritic score of 80 out of 100 based 31 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Rotten Tomatoes gave the first season a 95% "Certified Fresh" score with an average rating of 8.18 out of 10 based on 57 critic reviews, with the critical consensus "Pamela Adlon's Better Things abstains from traditional sitcom sendups and forges a path all its own – in this bawdy, often hilarious and bittersweet ode to the daily highs and lows of being a single mother." On Metacritic, the second season has a score of 96 out of 100 based on 13 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".
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The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction describes the series "whose farcical overemphases fail to disguise an overblown tale that would have been more at home in the dawn of pulp magazines." The New York Times review of the first volume, The Invaders' Plan, describes it thus: "... a paralyzingly slow-moving adventure enlivened by interludes of kinky sex, sendups of effeminate homosexuals and a disregard of conventional grammar so global as to suggest a satire on the possibility of communication through language." In L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology, a survey of Hubbard's literary career, Marco Frenschkowski of the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz described the Mission Earth series: :The satire is not humorous, but biting and harsh, which makes the novels not easy to read. Also Hubbard somehow had lost contact with developing narrative techniques: he writes exactly as he had done 40 years earlier.
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