Word: spoof
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...Even a spoof of communism would be permitted on the Russian stage, said Katayev, but "the audience would pelt the author with apples. The public likes communism...
...major faults are Porter's; if Ninotchka was a successful spoof of the Russians 25 years ago, a lot of its crude anti-Soviet humor (reference is made to an epic "Ode to a Tractor") is only crude today. Someone made an odd choice in selecting Silk Stockings, and perhaps they've done as well by it as anyone could. But the charm of this year's Drumbeats show is all Pat Fay's--and the excitement of the production is in its color and gaiety, not in any substance...
...would be to scrap the whole thing and start afresh, and the prizewinner, a devoted English phonetist named Kingsley Read, did just that. The results of his work have just been released by Penguin Books: a trial edition of Androcles and the Lion, Shaw's famous dramatic spoof of early Christians and Romans, with the English alphabet version on one side and the new Shaw-Read alphabet version opposite...
...Yale Daily News, a local campus organ, sought to apply the finishing touches to their Game-time parody of the CRIMSON. The parody has been conceived as some sort of a "get-even" move with the Crimeds, who last year at this time perpetrated an immensely successful spoof edition of the Yalie Dailie on the unsuspecting sons...
When contacted by telephone, Esquire said they now figured the story to be a spoof, but felt the story's author, Mark Epernay, was real, since he had submitted the article in person. The issue listed Epernay as a long-time student of Dr. McLandress, giving his home as Bogota, New Jersey, Epernay's own McL-C rating is not known, but is suspected to be very high...