" Moore contends the writings were intended to be humorous "spoofs.
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Moore said in an email that the columns were spoofs.
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No one is safe from Huckabee's famous spoofs, goofs, and gags.
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MODERN FAMILY, at 9, spoofs Comic-Con in its Season 20053 finale.
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Her harasser, egged on by supporters online, posted comedy spoofs of Gubran's video.
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The director J.J. Abrams's company Bad Robot had a hand in those spoofs.
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It can also be hacked with a bit of effort, such as via silicone spoofs.
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There are more Trump-branded spoofs, parodies and sendups than there are Trump-branded hotels.
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All of these spoofs and parodies emphasize the need for Black representation in TV and movies.
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As for Ross, it looks like he'll have more inspiration for his Silicon Valley-themed spoofs.
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So, without further ado, here are the greatest parodies, spoofs, and memes of Snakes On A Plane.
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He has no easy job, but thanks to SNL's spoofs he's become a bit of a celebrity.
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Once the customer picks their pet, they're directed to a shipping website that also spoofs real companies.
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Comedian hilariously spoofs celebrity moms' sexy picsCeleste Barber is taking aim at celebrities' super-glam photo shoots.
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The difference between the usual Trump spoofs and McCarthy's take on Spicer is that hers was actually hilarious.
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The Good Liars, the comic duo behind the spoofs, got its start during the Occupy Wall Street protests.
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They are presented as spoofs, but the tongue-in-cheek tone is belied by the level of craft.
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"This is made harder when we have to distinguish between real events and spoofs," Ayers said by email.
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Well, not really, but she did join the grand tradition of doing celebrity spoofs to the celebrity's face.
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As you get deeper into Cannabis Corpse, are you finding challenging to keep coming up with title spoofs?
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Last year, Adele released 25, which gave us "Hello" and all the wonderful spoofs that came with it.
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After countless novels, animated series, movies, plays and spoofs, Poirot and Marple have achieved a kind of immortal status.
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The pug, who is known for his expert pop culture spoofs, instantly warmed up to the tiny, white fluffball.
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China's media regulator has cracked down on online video spoofs and parodies, according to state-run media outlet Xinhua.
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China had previously banned video spoofs and parodies in a March directive, a lot of which appeared on Duanzi.
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WATCH: Alec Baldwin Spoofs Trump, O'Reilly on SNL The Emmys mark Colbert's first time hosting a major awards show.
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Scenes often feel like spoofs, taking a tearjerking scene from a similar film and putting it on its head.
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The show is a satire, but the tycoons it spoofs imagine that they are the heroes of a drama.
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Apple really unleashed the spoofs and goofs when the care instructions were spotted online for its new credit card.
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In the process, it spoofs many crime show cliches of the contemporary "Golden Age" of television, primarily True Detective.
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The company is also earning shoutouts and spoofs on TV shows like Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Broad City, and Quantico.
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Patrick Dempsey spoofs his character alongside other famous, fictional M.D.s Neil Patrick Harris (Doogie Howser), Donald Faison (Scrubs) and — surprise!
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It's as if this franchise is generating its own fan videos and spoofs, removing the need for yaoi fan fiction.
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From Pokémon Go photoshops to political spoofs, there really are more fakes than ever swirling around the internet this summer.
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Although forgeries, fakes and spoofs have existed for much of human history, they had to be crafted manually … until now.
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If the promised peer review is not catching obvious spoofs co-authored by Darth Vader, what are authors really paying for?
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The news comes alongside a video starring the news anchor and her squad that spoofs Taylor Swift's "Bad Blood" music video.
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And he's also worked as a live-action actor, most notably in "Anime Crimes Division," which spoofs anime and detective tropes.
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You'll see him in plenty of the decade's most popular sketches, including topical entertainment spoofs from Star Trek to Star Wars.
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Jost and Che are the anchors of the "Weekend Update" segment on "Saturday Night Live" that spoofs a television news show.
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They knew him as the producer behind the Goons, Peter Sellers's crazy spoofs, and Flanders & Swann of "Mud, mud, glorious mud".
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Likewise, Photoshop and digital platforms have made it cheap and popular to create and circulate all sorts of spoofs, or e'gao.
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It's worth remembering that many elements of the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were silly spins and spoofs of superhero staples.
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There are tables of merchandise and costumed mascots, Ping-Pong matches and a movie reel of celebrity-filled skits and spoofs.
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They're flying to New York in October to shoot video spoofs of movies including "Clueless" and "Mean Girls" for Harper's Bazaar.
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Expect "some new spoofs on the current theater season" following the departure from the Triad, the show's creator, Gerard Alessandrini, said.
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Photo: GettyMalware discovered by Symantec researchers sneakily spoofs Uber's Android app and harvests users' passwords, allowing attackers to take over users' accounts.
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I think the industry made fun of this project and there were multiple funny spoofs on the Google self-driving car project.
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Alec Baldwin spoofs the commander in chief nearly weekly on "Saturday Night Live," and he ponied up $2,700 to Liuba Grechen Shirley.
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This season, "Trial" directly spoofs aspects of the podcast "S-Town" with a show called "M-Town," which is following Lavinia's trial.
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In a beauty-tutorial video that is now going viral, Morgan Hanbery at once spoofs these clichés and turns them on their head.
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In the clip, Reynolds' Deadpool spoofs Superman after he sees a man in danger and runs into a phone booth to suit up.
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This spring, an appeals court ruled that Baltimore police systemically misused "stingray," a powerful surveillance device that spoofs cell sites to track cellphones.
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There's also an ongoing joke about a fake crowdfunding service called Quickstarter, and, at one point, the game spoofs the Ace Attorney series.
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It looks like we'll be getting all of the great spoofs of the original, like Kim's constant lateness thanks to her secret crimefighting.
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Bud Light aired several commercials that functioned as Game of Thrones spoofs — and then capped them off with an official show tie-in.
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"Saturday Night Live" spoofs of presidential debates have typically become instant classics, but the second general election debate in particular received outsize attention.
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Alec Baldwin is taking some serious heat for claiming black people "love" him due to his spoofs of Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live.
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READ: Hollywood spoofs Donald Trump in 'Funny or Die' movie Depp and Heard quickly returned to California but not before sparking the hashtag #WarOnTerrier.
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The result left audiences stuck between a handful of cheap imitations like I Know What You Did Last Summer and the Wayans brothers' spoofs .
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One of Mike Myers' most memorable characters, the comedian spoofs old special agent movies to create this memorable comedy with dozens of classic lines.
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It spoofs reality shows, infomercials, soap operas, and other TV tropes in seconds-long chunks at a time over the course of four minutes.
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In another email to the programmer, he said he was "getting hit on his spoofs and it was costing him too much money," Summers said.
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" Spoofs, spinoffs, he loves them all, "so it's frustrating to see big corporations attempt to take over every market in a slow, fairly invisible manner.
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We got the performer-turned-politician in D.C. Sunday, where he gave kudos for SNL's latest Trump spoofs, especially Melissa McCarthy's turn as Sean Spicer.
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They screen and discuss East India Comedy's latest video sketch, "I Want to Quit ISIS," which spoofs one man's attempt to quit the terrorist group.
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Late-night spoofs aside, some political commentators say Trump's publicist charade – and his failure to come clean about it last week – is cause for concern.
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Oliver announced the release of his new children's book on Sunday that spoofs a children's book from the second family about their rabbit, Marlon Bundo.
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Mediator There were so many instant internet spoofs making fun of Kellyanne Conway's now-famous "Bowling Green Massacre" that it's hard to pick a favorite.
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The result, Mr. Sikoryak explained, combines his childhood love for Mad magazine spoofs with John Cage's theories of art and the influence of Art Spiegelman.
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Nineties film Pleasantville, which spoofs a 1950s television show, even uses the arrival of the double bed to demonstrate the downfall of morality in the town.
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With pop culture references, spoofs and new takes on some of the world's most popular jams, Corden has developed a winning formula for enrapturing online audiences.
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When Apple launched its first pair of completely wireless earbuds, AirPods, in September 2016, they were mocked in late-night TV spoofs and across the Twittersphere.
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So in honor of a year of squabbles, misinformation, empty words, SNL spoofs, and incredulity, here are the top White House press briefing moments of 2017.
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Toward the end of her life, she became a punchline: caught shoplifting (long before Winona Ryder did) and becoming the subject of spoofs by Mel Brooks.
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The potential for such harm has inspired some people to work on technology to detect deepfakes and other AI spoofs, be they videos, faces, or voices.
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Kelly Ripa pulled out all the stops for the Halloween-themed episode of Live on Monday, with a number of costumes, spoofs and even a music number.
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Because the show lovingly spoofs the dense mythology and interpersonal dynamics of space operas like Solo: A Star Wars Story, which is out in theaters this weekend.
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Legendary political commentator Dr. John McLaughlin -- whose long-running show inspired famous 'SNL' spoofs -- has died ... just days after missing his program for the first time ever.
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In 1967, Andy Warhol collaborated with Random House to create a pop-up book featuring paper spoofs of his famous artworks, including cardboard can of Hunt's tomato paste.
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Saturday Night Live Spoofs Kim Kardashian West and Kris Humphries' Short-Lived Marriage … … and we were treated to SNL alum Nasim Pedrad's flawless take on Kim's voice. 3.
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His son has an operatic voice and is a frequent "ringer" at the Gridiron Club's annual dinner, playing prominent politicians as part of the journalists' spoofs and skits.
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With Bannon's character dressed as the grim reaper and watching over him, Alec Baldwin spoofs Trump in phone conversations with the leaders of Australia, Mexico, Germany and Zimbabwe.
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At this point, SNL's spoofs on Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are just barely heightened versions of reality — there's no need to spruce up the truth; it's already ridiculous.
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But the writers also play with those conventions, such as incorporating commercial spoofs for pot-themed products, which is probably the cleverest recurring bit the show has to offer.
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Thirty-three percent say they've enjoyed the spoofs and that they should continue, while 22019 percent say the sketches are amusing, but the show should focus on other topics.
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Inge doesn't have the reputation of his contemporary Tennessee Williams, perhaps because he lacked Williams's incantatory flamboyance, which encouraged myriad staging possibilities, audience devotion and a thousand campy spoofs.
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The short clip spoofs Eilish's Bad Guy music video where the actress imitates scenes from the video as if she is actually a part of the 17-year-old's tune.
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Like other spam calls, the incoming number appear to be similar to the recipient's own phone number, or spoofs the Chinese Embassy's real phone number which begins with (212) 244.
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But more than any of Mr. Alessandrini's portmanteau spoofs, "Spamilton" has an energizing, free-associating euphoria that follows one theater obsessive's prismatic "mind at work" (to borrow a "Hamilton" lyric).
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Examples of the former include the spoofs on Melania Trump's infamous "I really don't care, do u?" jacket and the channeling of the "Arthur's fist" meme to rally against sexism.
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For years, automakers and hackers have known about a clever attack that spoofs the signal from a wireless car key fob to open a vehicle's doors, and even drive it away.
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After inspiring countless memes and spoofs—not to mention several finale-obsessed back-and-forths—it was all but a given that Netflix's eight-episode summer smash *Stranger Things *would return.
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The new rule comes a little over a week after a Chinese reporter's eye-roll went viral during the National People's Congress, sprouting memes, spoofs, and GIFs all over social media.
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Stephen Colbert couldn't have entered the network late-night game at a better time, with the 2016 presidential election giving him fodder for Hunger Games spoofs and incisive interviews with candidates.
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A few days after we speak, I message Meyers to tell him that I recently judged a student filmmaking competition, and two of the 10 entries were spoofs — of Documentary Now!
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But any fan who heard Mr. Elliott's mellow voice in a legitimate commercial could not help recalling the spoofs of Madison Avenue spots that he did over the years with Mr. Goulding.
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It's sort of a push-and-pull between these networks, where one is trying to get better at spoofing images, and the other is trying to improve its ability to spot spoofs.
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Read These Stories Next:Moonlight Editor Joi McMillon On Making Movies & History Please Don't Compare A Wrinkle In Time To Black PantherWhat 2017's TV Spoofs Say About Black Joy & Representation Related Video:
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In the ad, which spoofs her "Thank U, Next" music video that was released in November 2018, one person says, "Rumor has it, she put part of her ponytail" in the fragrance.
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Trump, who has repeatedly criticized the show's spoofs of him and his team, was reportedly irked by a sketch earlier this month that depicted White House chief strategist Steve Bannon manipulating him.
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Ms. Ullman spoofs the wife of an overthrown dictator living under a Heathrow flight path; a former Wimbledon line judge explaining how to tolerate players' grunting; and the German chancellor, Angela Merkel.
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Maitland Ward says there's a lot of porn potential in two controversial ads for this holiday season -- and it sounds like she wants to do 'em ... make them into spoofs, we mean.
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As illustrated by numerous late-night Jimmy Kimmel spoofs, it's clear that there are still a lot of people in this country who are confused about what Obamacare is and what it does.
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The censorship of the film occurred just days after China shifted control of all its film and media to the Department of Propaganda and, on the digital front, banned video spoofs and parodies.
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In 183, YouTuber Brad O'Farrell gained permission to use the clip in a mashup fail video, and this spurred thousands of spoofs over the last ten years — there's a whole website of them.
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The artist Richard Prince (whom Kushner also spoofs) told me that most of the time when he reads about the art world, about rooms he was in, he thinks, That's not what happened.
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The opening spoofs the convoluted regulations of the military, suggesting that these shows were originally conceived back in the days of George Washington, and that it was centuries before they were finally produced.
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The show occasionally spoofs its fans (we meet a creepy superfan who bought a dress from Spelling's wardrobe) but more often services them with callbacks to the show's plot and its backstage drama.
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Spoofs of sitcoms, infomercials and true-crime shows crash into one another, buffered by forlorn snippets of the original wedding tape and clips of Ralph's interactions with his best friend, Josh (Rahm Braslaw).
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Late last year the ACLU said that it was taking the government to court over the DHS service's use of so-called "stingray" technology that spoofs a cell phone tower to determine someone's location.
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In the past two weeks, spoofs have popped up in New York City subway trains advertising to potential clients of the former New York Mayor and president Donald Trump's current personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani.
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Baldwin's Trump has been preceded by similarly iconic spoofs including Will Ferrell's George W. Bush, Phil Hartman's Bill Clinton, and Dana Carvey's George H.W. Bush, not to mention Chevy Chase's constantly tripping Gerald Ford.
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Try out remakes like Romeo and Juliet (2013) and True Grit (2010) – or spoofs like The Spy Who Dumped Me, a modern twist on the James Bond classic starring Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon.
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A low-budget time-capsule mockumentary from writer-director Rusty Cundieff, Fear spoofs early-'90s hip-hop culture via the antics of N.W.H., a fictitious bad-boy rap outfit trying to be taken seriously.
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The series riffs on themes from those films, including time travel (the 1994 cult classic "Timecop") and doppelgängers ("Double Impact," from 1991), and spoofs the "anything for a buck" nature of Hollywood action films.
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That's because "Head Over Heels" is at heart a tamed version of the period spoofs made popular decades earlier by drag artists like Charles Ludlam and, later, in floor shows at the Pyramid Club.
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Where they are now: Rivera's notable VenetianPrincess parodies and spoofs ended in 2014, but she brought back her YouTube channel in 2019 to feature vlogs from her daily life and serious covers of songs.
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In addition to the spoofs, conspiracy theories and plenty of online chatter (she has her own hashtag #GiraffeWatch), April now has her own website, crowdfunding campaign, emoji collection for purchase, sponsorships and official merchandise galore.
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At the world premiere of the film which spoofs the fashion industry, stars Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Will Ferrell and Penelope Cruz strutted down a catwalk soon to be the red carpet for the night.
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Even CNN's Jeanne Moos opted to turn Spicer's struggles into one of her trademark tongue-in-cheek satirical spoofs, calling upon everyone from Melissa McCarthy and "Saturday Night Live" to Trevor Noah and Steve Colbert.
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He's not going to rap about sneaking in through the East Wing to put cyanide in Trump's Diet Coke, and he's not going to put out a goofy single that spoofs the Russian pee tape.
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Eschewing more traditional media outlets, Mr. Andrews reached out to The Onion, the satirical news organization known for outlandish social commentaries, comedic horoscopes and political spoofs, which since 2012 has had an internal ad agency.
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Although this production uses many of the tools associated with theater spoofs of classic kitsch — the kind that usually star female impersonators of all sexes — its aim is less to send up than to crash land.
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The writer-director Gerard Alessandrini (the wit behind the "Forbidden Broadway" spoofs) makes a case for the numbers not needing any kind of larger context — and some of them are loose trunk songs to begin with.
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But they're also not meant to be taken so seriously, as even the BMJ admits, noting that it welcomes submissions to their Christmas issue that are "light-hearted fare and satire," but not outright spoofs or fabrications.
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Franco once again spoofs the famous Dos Equis "Most Interesting Man in the World" ads and gives yet more reasons why he thinks Clinton is "the most interesting woman in the world," posing in just a towel.
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To many fans, synchronized swimming is an aquatic ballet performed by petite women who wear makeup, nose plugs and flashy bathing suits, a sport largely defined by Esther Williams movies or spoofs by comedians like Martin Short.
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VERY BRITISH PROBLEMS on Acorn TV. If only they'd known about Brexit in time: This comedy series, which spoofs peculiarities that are uniquely British, returns for a second season with Julie Walters, James Corden and David Tennant.
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Chen Nian, an analyst with Gsdata, a consultancy which monitors Chinese social media, said in a statement Peppa's streetwise reputation in memes and spoofs was a "massive nonsensical joke" that was a way for young people to rebel.
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This century, a camp sensibility has yielded blunt-edged spoofs like Lesbian Vampire Killers (2009), but straight-faced approaches have turned out even worse, with The Moth Diaries and 2004's Eternal leaning on all the expected references.
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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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If you're looking for funny spoofs of pop culture mega-celebrities, forget "Saturday Night Live" and try the Instagram page of the comic Kyle Dunnigan, who has been putting on a crowd-pleasing one-man digital sketch show.
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Josh Collins, the director of the new film "Fags in the Fast Lane," an Australian gaysploitation comedy in the spirit of sci-fi sex spoofs like "Flesh Gordon," wants the gay community to stop taking itself so seriously.
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Buoyed by the international success of "Fifty Shades of Grey", an erotic film that was not released in Pakistan (although locals have posted plenty of spoofs on YouTube), global sales of sex toys have reached about $15bn a year.
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"Doing the Obama spoofs I have found that I catch the ear of a lot of young people that aren't interested in politics or know nothing about politics and it makes them look into it and learn," Crosson said.
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This is why it's hilarious when Drake spoofs his own self-spoof "Hotline Bling" video for a cell phone commercial, and it's the same reason that Jay Z has become sort of boring and safe in his old age.
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In between blockbusters like "Jumanji," groundbreaking stand-up sets, reality television spoofs and rap albums, Kevin Hart found time to hit the road for this documentary series, in which he explores stand-up scenes and looks for fresh talent.
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"The Handmaid's Tale" and political comedy "Veep" won the top prizes at the Emmy awards on Sunday, but satirical sketch show "Saturday Night Live" won the most Emmys overall on the back of a season of Donald Trump spoofs.
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" 2009: Neil Patrick Harris, whose turn as Mark in the 1997 touring company of Rent won rave reviews and singlehandedly revived the actor's career, hosts Saturday Night Live and spoofs his own performance in a skit titled "Let's Save Broadway.
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BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's media regulator is cracking down on video spoofs, the official Xinhua new agency reported, amid an intensified crackdown on any content that is deemed to be in violation of socialist core values under President Xi Jinping.
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The latter has led to a variety of spoofs online, with the Lebanese-British satirist Karl Sharro, apparently inspired by the "absurdity" of the cartoons, to produce his own guide for Western behavior to be avoided in the Middle East.
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Amidst all of these tech spoofs, the game also gets serious at times, like when a smart home company is selling data to health insurance firms in order to bump up the rates of folks who order too much takeout.
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He launched his own novel-writing career with the spoofs "Shamela," in which the virginal young maid is recast as a slatternly schemer who manipulates Squire Booby into marrying her, and "Joseph Andrews," which purported to be about Pamela's brother.
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BoJack could have been any number of brooding TV antiheroes from the 2010s, as the Mad Men–esque opening credits suggest, and the show itself spoofs that idea in later seasons with BoJack's role in the dark detective drama Philbert.
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The short form videos, available on CBS' YouTube channel, will feature skits, pop culture parodies and viral video spoofs from stars of The Price is Right, Let's Make a Deal, The Young and the Restless, The Bold and the Beautiful and The Talk.
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" Once liberals caught wind of it their spoofs like "I'm gay, change my mind" only kicked up more fuel for conservative folks to promote things like, "if she breathe she a thot, change my mind" and "Kwanza isn't real, change my mind.
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The picture makes fun of religious fanatics; "Nothing Sacred," the hit comedy that Hecht wrote for the director William Wellman in 1937, spoofs the monosyllabic folk in a small Vermont town, and then turns on the verbose, self-admiring swells in New York.
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Although his byline rarely appeared, Mr. Meglin refined Mad's cover ideas, added puns and gags to stories, frequently ghostwrote Dave Berg's cartoon feature "The Lighter Side Of … " and checked to make sure the lyrics of the magazine's song spoofs had the right meter.
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Daliah Lavi, an Israeli actress who transitioned from serious parts in foreign cinema and in dramatic films like "Lord Jim" to lighthearted turns in 1960s spy-movie spoofs like "Casino Royale," died on Wednesday at her home in Asheville, N.C. She was 74.
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A huge component of SoulCycle's rise in popularity has to do with the jokes and spoofs about its community that have made their way into pop culture: SoulCycle has been labeled a cult and an obsession — and those labels aren't completely unwarranted.
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It could not capture Mr Hewlett's distinctive style: a frenetic, gleeful yet always lucid melange of MAD magazine's early spoofs; the sardonic dystopianism of 2000 AD, a British cult science-fiction comic; more than a touch of Manga; and most crucially, punk-influenced street fashion.
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In an exclusive new sketch from the Comedy Central series, the comedian spoofs cutesy modern mobile commercials by repping a fake company called Mobile C. She plays an "adorkable" saleswoman with heavy bangs, who might remind you of another real life mobile phone hostess.
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Jill Kargman — in reality, the sylph daughter of a former president of Chanel who attended Spence and Yale before marrying the founder of an ad tech company — spoofs her life as a slob among the wealthier, snobbier, thinner Mombots of the Upper East Side.
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Susan Berman and Robert Durst Robert Durst has been the subject of an HBO documentary, a Ryan Gosling movie, decades of tabloid coverage, and multiple SNL spoofs, but on Wednesday, prosecutors turned the attention back onto the two women they say he tormented and killed.
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" One evening, Bloom and Jack Dolgen, a songwriter and scriptwriter for her show, were talking in a recording space at Occidental Studios in L.A., where she was getting ready to record a song called "Cold Showers," which spoofs genre songs like "Trouble" from "The Music Man.
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Some scenes play like spoofs of a cancer dramedy Joanne is oddly the supporting character in a dramedy about her own death, but when given screen time, Shannon makes the most of it, screaming and vomiting and fighting against her fate without becoming a belligerent charade.
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But look back, and you'll notice that iconic zombie-heavy movies, video games, books, and TV shows surface nearly every decade: 28 Days Later (2002), Resident Evil (1996), Dawn of the Dead (1978) (and its subsequent remakes and spoofs), and the groundbreaking Night of the Living Dead (1968).
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The Colin Kaepernick-narrated advertising campaign for Nike drew record likes on social media, got more than $160 million worth of exposure on TV, radio and digital media, spawned a ton of spoofs and created a surge in Nike's online sales in the days after the commercial was released.
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Fast on the heels of DeMille's "Carmen" came Charlie Chaplin's parody, "A Burlesque on Carmen," an early entry in a canon of opera spoofs (whose most famous entry, the Marx Brothers' "A Night at the Opera," was screened last month on the plaza outside the Metropolitan Opera House).
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And we started to see heightened satirical, often violent sequences like the one below, from issue 38, where Deadpool tries in vain to scar himself to break Loki's curse: This is just a nifty, funny way that Deadpool subverts and spoofs the idea of the super healing trope.
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To kick off a new brand ambassadorship with Crate & Barrel, the actress, 41, stars in a video that spoofs exactly what goes into being a consummate holiday hostess — like testing out recipes 43 times and lighting up the kitchen trying to flame an orange garnish— that accompany setting up a soiree.
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Podcast Like It's 1999 found its groove remarkably quickly, as is notable in the episode in which Iscove and Neibart enter the studio hating Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, the second of the Mike Myers-starring spy spoofs, then kinda sorta talk each other into liking the movie.
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Here she spoofs Jordan Peele's "Us" — borrowing the film's creepy slow-burn version of the Luniz song "I Got 5 on It," as well as its tense pace and dread-inducing rhythms — to ridicule the cafe customer who invariably turns up to haunt the place in the morning before the doors are open.
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There were individual moments when the series sang (like this sketch from the season premiere about congressmen trying to legislate women's bodies, or a later one about a home-shopping network for gun enthusiasts), but it mostly settled for a long series of gags and spoofs you could see on other shows.
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The joke, of course, is that Mermaid Man and his sidekick Barnacle Boy are obvious spoofs of the 1960s Batman show in which West starred; the pair even conduct their operations out of the "Mermalair" (a send-up of the Batcave) and ride in a vehicle called the "Invisible Boat-Mobile," a knock-off Batmobile.
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Read more about Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas: Sophie Turner says she's met enough 'guys' and 'girls' to know she's ready for marriage at 22 Joe Jonas revealed when he's marrying Sophie Turner and what he learned from Nick and Kevin's weddings Joe Jonas spoofs 'Planet Earth' with a video of Sophie Turner tripping and falling in the snow
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There are many clumsy examples of this — like, say, the terrible movie spoofs that believe simply restaging some famous scene counts as worthwhile humor — but there are also many very good ones, as when director Brian De Palma turned an elaborate action sequence in his 1987 film The Untouchables into an extensive reimagining of the stairway massacre in 1925's Battleship Potemkin.
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But he also viewed Kennedy with an easygoing detachment, rather as Kennedy tended to view himself; he laughed along with the affectionate Vaughn Meader impersonations and the Mad magazine spoofs of J.F.K. that I added to his reading of the New York World-Telegram , a middlebrow broadsheet unaware that, along with men's hats and women's cotton gloves, it was on the brink of death.
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The book spoofs "A Day in the Life of the Vice President," written by Pence's daughter Charlotte Pence and illustrated by second lady Karen PenceKaren Sue PencePence on battling critics: 'Spend more time on your knees than on the internet' The Hill's 12:85033 Report: Acosta resigns amid controversy over Epstein plea deal The Hill's 12:30 Report: Pelosi looks to squash fight with progressives MORE.
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China's media regulator has also been cracking down on video spoofs, as part of the intensified crackdown on any content that is deemed to be in violation of socialist core values under Xi. Despite strict censorship, China has a fairly lively online community of bloggers, who frequently respond to breaking events with humorous - and sometimes risqué - sketches and short videos, although they often face their posts being taken down.
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In a sketch cut for time from James Franco's latest episode of Saturday Night Live, the star of The Disaster Artist spoofs all those Hallmark Christmas movies as Chris Bearstick, a Canadian actor forced to star in such films like Yes, Santa (about a young Santa Claus falling in love with a woman whose boyfriend works too much) and Prince Santa (about an ice skater who gets amnesia and ends up marrying a prince who's also young Santa).
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