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Example sentences for: spoof
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The WP TV column reports that Al Franken, in preparing a new spate of shows for his about-to-be-resuscitated news spoof "Lateline," reached out to various political types to do some script doctoring.
Boone claims that the album's purpose is to attract metal enthusiasts to Jesus, and that his get-up was a spoof of his old choirboy image.
(Click here for its witless Slate spoof.)
This gentle Star Trek spoof strikes a chord; it's "a fast, loose, and very funny parody that pulls off the not-so-simple feat of tweaking Trekkies and honoring them" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). The film's premise: A group of middle-aged actors from a long-canceled space show get "spacejacked by naive aliens in need of protection" who mistook the program for a historical document (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ). The result is campy, goofy, and "funny without being flip" (Rita Kempley, the Washington Post ). (Click here to read an interview with Sigourney Weaver about her character in the movie.)
The last-named book is largely a spoof on linguistic pedantry, and I fear that Saussy III has been drawn in.
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