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In the fourth of six millennium issues, artists depict the millennium with predictably burlesque results.
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 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.
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.
In Mexican social thought the role of relajo behavior is shown to be a criticism of the political corruption of the government, but also a burlesque of the divisions of the social classes.