What (who) is parody - definition
parody
![Puck]]'' magazine, October 9, 1915. Caption "I did not raise my girl to be a voter" parodies the anti-[[World War I]] song "[[I Didn't Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier]]". A chorus of disreputable men support a lone anti-suffrage woman.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/I did not raise my girl to be a voter3.jpg?width=200 "Puck]]'' magazine, October 9, 1915. Caption \"I did not raise my girl to be a voter\" parodies the anti-[[World War I]] song \"[[I Didn't Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier]]\". A chorus of disreputable men support a lone anti-suffrage woman.")
![3=Allegorie der Tulipomanie}}'', persiflage on the [[tulip mania]], by [[Jan Brueghel the Younger]] (1640s)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jan Brueghel the Younger, Satire on Tulip Mania, c. 1640.jpg?width=200 "3=Allegorie der Tulipomanie}}'', persiflage on the [[tulip mania]], by [[Jan Brueghel the Younger]] (1640s)")
![Reggie Brown]], a voice actor and [[Barack Obama]] impersonator](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Reggie Brown by Gage Skidmore 2.jpg?width=200 "Reggie Brown]], a voice actor and [[Barack Obama]] impersonator")
IMITATIVE WORK CREATED TO MOCK, COMMENT ON OR TRIVIALISE AN ORIGINAL WORK
Send Up; Parodies; Parodied; Parodying; Parodic; Parodist; Lampoons; Send-up; Sendup; Sendups; Send-ups; Send ups; Parody law; Polemical lampoon
(parodies, parodying, parodied)
1.
A parody is a humorous piece of writing, drama, or music which imitates the style of a well-known person or represents a familiar situation in an exaggerated way.
'The Scarlet Capsule' was a parody of the popular 1959 TV series 'The Quatermass Experiment'...
N-VAR: oft N of n
2.
When someone parodies a particular work, thing, or person, they imitate it in an amusing or exaggerated way.
...a sketch parodying the views of Jean-Marie Le Pen...
VERB: V n
3.
When you say that something is a parody of a particular thing, you are criticizing it because you think it is a very poor example or bad imitation of that thing.
The first trial was a parody of justice.
= travesty
N-COUNT: usu N of n [disapproval]
parody
IMITATIVE WORK CREATED TO MOCK, COMMENT ON OR TRIVIALISE AN ORIGINAL WORK
Send Up; Parodies; Parodied; Parodying; Parodic; Parodist; Lampoons; Send-up; Sendup; Sendups; Send-ups; Send ups; Parody law; Polemical lampoon
I. n.
Travesty, burlesque, caricature, ludicrous imitation.
II. v. a.
Travesty, burlesque, caricature, turn into burlesque.
parody
IMITATIVE WORK CREATED TO MOCK, COMMENT ON OR TRIVIALISE AN ORIGINAL WORK
Send Up; Parodies; Parodied; Parodying; Parodic; Parodist; Lampoons; Send-up; Sendup; Sendups; Send-ups; Send ups; Parody law; Polemical lampoon
n.
1) to compose a parody
2) a parody of, on
Wikipedia
Parody
A parody, also called a spoof, a satire, a send-up, a take-off, a lampoon, a play on (something), or a caricature, is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or mock its subject by means of satiric or ironic imitation. Often its subject is an original work or some aspect of it (theme/content, author, style, etc), but a parody can also be about a real-life person (e.
Pronunciation examples for parody
1. It's a little parody.
Judith Wright _ Talks at Google
2. very justifiable parody.
Robot Chicken _ Seth Green & Matthew Senreich _ Talks at Google
3. there was a parody account.
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4. with a Twitter parody account.
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5. do a "Blurred Lines" parody?
Mandatory Fun _ Weird Al Yankovic _ Talks at Google
Examples of use of parody
1. "But I just wanted a beautiful–sounding album with a meaty bottom end and with arrangements that didn‘t parody any other band, didn‘t parody the Beach Boys, didn‘t parody the Beatles and the Stones, didn‘t parody Motown.
2. My life is not a parody." The "parody" to which Cohen refers is the pun on American rapper 50 Cent.
3. There‘s really no substitute to fill the parody void.
4. The rhetoric from some senators is worth quoting without parody.
5. Their banter is a parody of macho threats and boasts.