Word: spoofed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Review editors agree they need to put this issue behind them. With this controversy following the outcry over the parody of murdered feminist legal scholar Mary Joe Frug's article in last year's annual spoof issue, the Review has never had such a tumultuous time...
Great White Spoof...
ELEVEN YEARS AFTER TURNING OUT HIS first, delicious spoof of big-time musicals, Gerard Alessandrini is still skewering away -- wicked as ever. His 12th and latest off-Broadway review, FORBIDDEN BROADWAY 1993, is as up to date as Kansas City and as funny as anything that happened on the way to the forum. New shows (the flop Anna Karenina, Patti LuPone in the not-even-yet-produced Sunset Boulevard) are raked over the coals; old chestnuts (a frenzied Les Miz, a nontraditional Miss Saigon) are freshly roasted. The song titles alone delight (to the tune of Somewhere Over the Rainbow...
Ostensibly that's the spoof campaign in Of Thee I Sing, the 1931 Gershwin brothers hit that became the first musical to win the Pulitzer Prize for drama. But is this joke election so much daffier than the real thing, with one contender playing the saxophone while another spouts platitudes about family values? Is a Vice President whom no one recognizes any more ludicrous than one who fluffs grade-school spelling...
...easily moved and naive public. But, in executing this satire, "Hero" seems to parody itself. Its attack on the media and popular conceptions of heroes is not so much barbed as it is simplistic. The comedy is as formulaic as the TV news shows it seeks to spoof, relying on a backbone of sight gags and one-liners (read: sound bites) for laughs...