lampoonery

Occasionally the play seems to fall down the rabbit hole of its own philosophical musings, but “Epiphany” never remains there too long; the humor, which works at several different registers, from barbed irony to tragicomic lampoonery to wacky physical comedy, reins in the play’s haughtier inclinations.

Anyway, it didn't take long for complaints from the right wing about Alec Baldwin's and Jim Carrey's respective lampoonery of the first presidential debate on "Saturday Night Live" to circulate.

“Topical lampoonery piles up quickly. Within the first few pages, there’s a statue of the Confederate colonel Robert E. Bigly and a resort called Farrago-Sur-Mer. … Buckley is intelligent and ingenious and at times pitch-perfect.”

Topical lampoonery piles up quickly.

Not that he was unhappy in Manchester, where he lived in an apartment at the Lowry hotel – a subject of no little lampoonery.