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Noun
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Even with Ted Lasso on hiatus, Apple TV+ continues to be a presence in this category; no doubt, voters loved seeing Hollywood execs (and egomaniacal stars) get skewered on the streamer's movie-industry satire, The Studio.—
Kristen Baldwin,
EW.com,
23 Apr. 2025 -
Like a good martini, the novel blends the zesty gin of satire with vermouthy fruitiness and lemon twists of sharp observation.—
Rob Kyff,
Hartford Courant,
19 Apr. 2025
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The suspects are using a spoof number and identifying themselves as Officers from the Peoria Police Department.—
Gordon G. Chang,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Apr. 2025
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After attending the prestigious Juilliard School for drama, Kilmer starred in the spy movie spoof Top Secret! and the college comedy Real Genius before appearing opposite Tom Cruise in the 1986 blockbuster Top Gun, playing Maverick’s rival Iceman.—
Dave Nemetz,
TVLine,
1 Apr. 2025
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There is slapstick farce and clowning but that’s not the only thing the play holds.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
2 Mar. 2025
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The aliens, including Parson’s character, an outcast who forms an unlikely bond with Tip, are a smidge too silly and slapstick — especially considering how fundamentally upsetting Home’s premise is.—
James Grebey,
Vulture,
31 Jan. 2025
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Those coming into The Wedding Banquet expecting a farce might be disappointed by Min’s grandmother’s instant awareness, which shifts the story into new terrain.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
23 Apr. 2025
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Drawing parallels to ‘1984’ Lukashenko extended his rule for a seventh term in a January election that the opposition called a farce.—
Yuras Karmanau,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Apr. 2025
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Mendoza didn’t begin performing until 2016, although she had been involved in the backstage production side of burlesque for some time before then.—
J.M. Banks,
Kansas City Star,
7 Apr. 2025
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Elsewhere, Abercrombie’s pastorals are almost like burlesques of plein air painting.—
Jeremy Lybarger,
ARTnews.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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Imagination was key to the films that Hess made after Napoleon Dynamite: the soulful Nacho Libre, in which Jack Black as a novice monk and Lucha Libre fan gave a fully rounded characterization, and the ingenious fantasy-fiction parody Gentlemen Broncos.—
Armond White,
National Review,
16 Apr. 2025
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Those include the parodies of commercials and public access programs that begin episodes, giving us introductions to Judaism and the French-Canadian mobsters and a particular brand of coffee in ways that, like so much in the series, feel fleetingly amusing rather than coherently realized.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Apr. 2025
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“Jocularity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jocularity. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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