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...prefers golf with his chums to affairs of state. He calls his wife "the boss," grouses about the "reptiles" of Fleet Street, and is addicted to a "tincture or two" before dinner. His name is Denis Thatcher, and he is the target of a long-running spoof in the British satirical magazine Private Eye in the form of letters to a fictional golfing pal named Bill. The missives tell of one man's travails living at 10 Downing Street with the British Prime Minister, who happens to be his wife...
After numerous magazine parodies, several members of the Harvard Lampoon are negotiating with the CBS television network to do a spoof of the show "60 Minutes" this summer...
...seen comics perform on television and I always wondered what I would do if I were there," he said. The Matthews Hall resident will perform a game show spoof and a parody of a Libyan defense department briefing he auditioned earlier this month...
...format--loose segments titled. "The Miracle of Birth." "Growth and Learning." "Fighting Each Other." and so forth--offers director Terry Jones the opportunity to set up classic spoof shots from Death pacing the beach to the omnipresent British boys' schoolroom. And it enables crazed animator Terry Gilliam to create some of the wackiest sequences he has ever penned, galaxies swoop in and out of file cabinets and the sun rapidly mitotes into a fetus while, for background music, a typical Python "French" accent promises to "explain it all for you tonight." So broad are the cinemographic possibilities that the movie...
Pistelli presented a standup routine on growing up with a Jewish mother and an Italian father. Danby performed a Star Trek parody and Kjellgren a mock quiz program and a spoof briefing on Libyan weaponry...