burlesque

Lawyers and bankers sat elbow-to-elbow at meals with burlesque performers and filmmakers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

"We're not mercenaries," he said in a 2021 interview, describing himself as pursuing "a burlesque form of pacifism."

From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026

Next to her: another, lesser-known celebrity from the world of burlesque.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

The Tortora affair, already a media zoo, becomes a jurisprudential burlesque.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026

Gussies comment about burlesque was a snide allusion to Cyril’s hand-painted tie.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

These unconscious burlesques beat the premeditated article every time.

From Slate ● Dec. 31, 2019

What was once liberating now feels limiting, reducing our notions of power to hysterically pitched burlesques or tough-as-males drag.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 15, 2018

On Wednesday afternoon City Hall was planning to name her as New York’s first Nightlife Mayor, its ambassador at large to the late-night world of bars, burlesques and cabarets.

From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2018

“Ms. Pak-Man” is stuffed with burlesques of ’70s and ’80s music and video-game culture.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 9, 2017

Not the least interesting examples of the indirect reaction to the Letters are the two verse caricatures or burlesques here reprinted.

From Two Burlesques of Lord Chesterfield's Letters. The Graces (1774), The Fine Gentleman's Etiquette (1776) by Anonymous

Mr. Morton has done this kind of thing before and done it with Mr. Bonneville—“Twenty Twelve” lampooned the scene behind the 2012 London Olympics; “W1A” burlesqued the BBC.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026

Basquiat plainly harbored that emotion even as, for art’s sake, he burlesqued it, packing spaces around and amid the vehement black lines with abstract fiestas of white, red, blue, and yellow.

From The New Yorker ● May 26, 2017

She has become the archetype of the cinema woman, adulated, burlesqued, imitated, envied.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 29, 2012

On the contrary: She sang very well, in a style that burlesqued the practice of "normal" singing.

From Slate ● Dec. 1, 2009

Living persons seem to have been attacked, and even the doings of the gods and heroes of mythology burlesqued.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various

In the course of sassing its forebears by burlesquing their excesses and teasing out their subtexts, the show hoots at the clichés of pop fiction and real life even as it indulges them.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 10, 2018

The Coen brothers take aim at Cold War-era Hollywood, burlesquing its scandals, blacklist and ancient world spectaculars.

From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2016

"Miracle!" would've looked more outrageous in the 1990s, when Savage's Greek Active troupe was burlesquing the classics.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 19, 2012

Yet the author seems to have had a chortling good time burlesquing the past in a style that swings between Henry Fielding and Mel Brooks.

From Time Magazine Archive

He sang the soprano score so admirably, burlesquing the action of the prima donna, but showing far greater powers of execution than she possessed, that his hearers were captivated.

From Famous Singers of To-day and Yesterday by Henry C. Lahee