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There is no gimmick to “get,” other than the film’s loving lampoon of the TV movie.

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026

But after an extensive hiatus, all three Wayans brothers are back, penning a new script that will lampoon the best and worst horror has had to offer in the 13 years since “Scary Movie 5.”

From Salon ● Jan. 4, 2026

Beeple, who is 44, spoke with The Wall Street Journal on Friday about his latest lampoon as he stood in the pen with his pack at the fair, which runs through Sunday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025

Benjamin Franklin’s 1773 “Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One” used irony to lampoon British policy, undermining authority while avoiding direct flouting of the era’s harsh sedition laws.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2025

In 1889, the enormous popularity in Britain of Mendelssohn’s oratorio Elijah caused George Bernard Shaw to lampoon its Sunday-school sentimentalities and its Music-school ornamentalities’.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

Trey Parker and Matt Stone's long-running animated sitcom regularly lampoons leading figures including US President Trump.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2025

And to his credit, Aster’s film is wryly perceptive, unflinching in the way it lampoons both the right and the left, the maskless and the socially distanced.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2025

Attorneys contend Metro has accepted ads promoting term limits for the Supreme Court, as well as ones promoting “The Book of Mormon” musical, a play that lampoons The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 12, 2023

David Thewlis and Daniel Mays lead the Old Vic’s “The Dumb Waiter,” which lampoons blind faith in authoritarian power.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2023

This contemporary lithograph lampoons the panicked gentry who fled the city - and thus turned Handel’s new oratorio, Theodora, into a box-office flop.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

Still, when Victor Montagliani, a former Canadian Soccer Assn. president, first publicly floated the idea of bidding to host the men’s World Cup in 2013, he was lampooned.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026

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

Exact Sciences, which went public in 2001, sells genetic tests, a liver cancer screening test called Oncoguard, and Cologuard, which was memorably lampooned External link by Saturday Night Live in 2023.

From Barron's ● Nov. 20, 2025

The Spitting Image TV show, which lampooned celebrities, politicians and royals, was a huge hit for ITV when it first ran in the 1980s and 1990s.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2025

In his comic play The Clouds, Aristophanes, writing in 420 bc, lampooned rhetoric as the art of weak reasoning, “which by false arguments triumphs over the strong.”

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

Eastside Girls, meanwhile, is a tender depiction of Muna's neighbourhood, lovingly lampooning the staples of LA hipster culture – astrology, polyamory, roommate dramas and "negronis with the nice gin".

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

Southwest Airlines, long known for lampooning its competitors’ fees, will charge for extra legroom on flights starting on Jan. 27.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026

Call it genius, then, that “Oh, Hi!” plays into this trope while simultaneously lampooning it for a push-pull dynamic that makes for one of the funniest movies of the year.

From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2025

These punishing, skeptical, prodding, guilt-inducing thoughts, personified with lampooning gusto, serve as the chattering chorus for his divided identity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2024

He played the game like a child, or like someone who was bent on lampooning a sacred ritual, which amounted to the same thing.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis