as in satire
a creative work that uses sharp humor to point up the foolishness of a person, institution, or human nature in general
this classic musical is a lampoon of the movie business at the time when sound was introduced
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Recent Examples of lampoon
Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 May 2024
Saturday Night Live kicked off with Bowen Yang reprising his role as George Santos in what could be one of the last instances of the former congressman being the subject of such a high-profile lampoon given his expulsion from the House of Representatives Friday.
—William Vaillancourt, Rolling Stone, 3 Dec. 2023
Phil Helsel, NBC News, 16 Nov. 2024
Scary Movie 2, which lampooned haunted house movies like The Haunting and The Exorcist, made $141 million on a $45-million budget.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 29 Oct. 2024
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Noun
Like Truffaut, Dupieux lampoons the infallible egos of some of France’s most famous actors, revealing the sparks that fly when those egos come crashing together on set.
—Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 May 2024
Saturday Night Live kicked off with Bowen Yang reprising his role as George Santos in what could be one of the last instances of the former congressman being the subject of such a high-profile lampoon given his expulsion from the House of Representatives Friday.
—William Vaillancourt, Rolling Stone, 3 Dec. 2023
Verb
Netflix on social media acknowledged the problems, which were lampooned by X users who posted heavily pixelated videos purported to be the match.
—Phil Helsel, NBC News, 16 Nov. 2024
Scary Movie 2, which lampooned haunted house movies like The Haunting and The Exorcist, made $141 million on a $45-million budget.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 29 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lampoon
Noun
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Not brilliant or ambitious in its satire, but solid.—
Andy Hoglund,
EW.com,
19 Jan. 2025
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In between his many obligations, Wood Jr. caught up with TIME to discuss his time in the food service industry, the impact of President Trump’s victory on satire, and whether the White House Correspondents’ Dinner was a tougher room than the Apollo Theater.—
Andrew R. Chow,
TIME,
16 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Drawn with a spidery expressionistic line and featuring a cast of characters including the neurotic Bernard, brutish Huey and the graceful Dancer, the strip satirized social and political issues and gave voice to liberal humanist views during the culturally conservative 1950s.—
Rob Salkowitz,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
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The first season focused on the era of The Music Man, Carousel, and Brigadoon, but the second has shifted to the ’70s and ’80s to satirize Chicago, Cabaret, Hair, and Sweeney Todd.—
Brian Tallerico,
Vulture,
6 Jan. 2025
Verb
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While tongue in cheek, the skit actually parodied the current move of corporate America toward accepting, if not embracing, the return of Donald J. Trump as president.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
17 Jan. 2025
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The actor was in the studio to chat about his Broadway production All In: Comedy About Love when he was treated to an unexpected '90s throwback clip of him and Amy Adams in a TV commercial parodying the hit musical Grease.—
Jessica Wang,
EW.com,
16 Jan. 2025
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But glossed over amid all the tributes is the burdensome legacy that Mr. Carter left for his Democratic Party: a presidency long caricatured as a symbol of ineffectiveness and weakness.—
Adam Nagourney,
New York Times,
8 Jan. 2025
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Critics have caricatured the Adams plan as a giveaway to developers that will let light and sky-stealing high-rises lord over lower-density housing, rendering neighborhoods unrecognizable.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
5 Dec. 2024
Verb
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They were also nominated for worst screen combo, another blow for the movie that Golden Globes host Nikki Glaser ruthlessly mocked in her monologue earlier this month.—
Brendan Morrow,
USA TODAY,
22 Jan. 2025
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Shelton specifically referenced the incident where Tony Jones of Channel 9 mocked Novak Djokovic and his fans on air, causing Djokovic to skip a post-match interview with Jim Courier.—
Adam Zagoria,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
Verb
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The two men were heralded by Democrats as patriots for speaking out and derided by Trump as insubordinate.—
Aamer Madhani and Zeke Miller,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Jan. 2025
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But lawmakers like Baker were still eager to see the dam completed and derided the decision as environmental overreach, seeing little reason to delay a major project for a seemingly minor fish.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
8 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Server locations matter, partly because a bigger collection of places means more options for spoofing your own location, but mainly because a closer server usually yields better speed and lower latency.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
16 Jan. 2025
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Wine Spilling On Kotb Saturday Night Live spoofed Kotb and Gifford as wine swillers, and an incident in 2012 reminds everyone why.—
Toni Fitzgerald,
Forbes,
10 Jan. 2025
Verb
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And if the Jaguars do not pull themselves out of the AFC South abyss, owner Shad Khan will be ridiculed for letting a guy with a skimpy resume have a huge say in picking the team’s next general manager.—
John Romano,
Orlando Sentinel,
25 Jan. 2025
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Through cute memes and witty jokes, both groups ridiculed the TikTok ban.—
Jianqing Chen,
The Conversation,
19 Jan. 2025
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