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The amazing thing about Dick (directed by Andrew Fleming from a script he wrote with Sheryl Longin) is that it manages to burlesque the Watergate mythos without trivializing it.
Benny Hill, whose shows have often been seen (too often, some might be inclined to say) in the U.S., rarely resorts to rude language, focusing rather on what is viewed as a revival of old burlesque routines in which there is much rolling of the eyes, winking, and the sly aside to the audience, all of which add up to the rudeness being in the mind of the beholder.
The horror genre lost its life's blood when filmmakers began to worry about being laughed at by teen-agers who'd seen it all before, and to incorporate kids' imagined responses into their pictures--so that you got the movie and the Mystery Science Theater 3000 burlesque of the movie at the same time.
But I always find it necessary to burlesque the mystery of feeling at its source; I must laugh at myself, and if the laugh is "bitter," I must laugh at the laugh.
Before long, the streets and alleys around the temple were filled with music halls, burlesque theaters, cabarets, gambling dens, and watering holes of every description.