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Other snaps showed fake 100 dollar bills spread across the floor, her posing with burlesque star Dita Von Teese, and dancing with an Elvis impersonator.

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026

Art punk Radu Jude’s latest satire is about a Romanian immigrant with a burlesque double life.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026

Ari Shaffir: The room is called the Box, and it’s this burlesque place.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026

Hell Hotel, a burlesque group who attended the event, told the BBC that they were "expecting much more based on what was advertised to us through their social media channels".

From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2026

You can burlesque your opponent’s position in a way that makes it unattractive to the audience.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

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

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

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 9, 2017

At 56, after nearly 40 years of musical burlesques, the accordion-grinding pop satirist has scored his first top-of-the-pops CD with the album Mandatory Fun.

From Time ● Aug. 1, 2014

Political satires are sternly forbidden, and among the few national burlesques, we saw nowhere any representation of Uncle Sam.

From Spanish Highways and Byways by Katharine Lee Bates

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

The pitiful character of the design, from an artistic point of view, shocked every person of taste; so I set to work and burlesqued it, strictly following the lines of the genuine article.

From The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 1 by Harry Furniss

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

He was supposed to have founded these comics on a group of street imps who were burlesquing the Duke of Marlborough's wedding.

From Time Magazine Archive

If Alfred had not been so earnest, the scene would have been a laughable one, as it was like burlesquing many similar scenes when the parent addressed the boy in the same words.

From Watch Yourself Go By by Ben W. Warden