Sentence examples for clever parody from inspiring English sources
It's a clever parody but the key issue in this video is the role of blackface.
I wanted to find the hidden irony, enjoy a belly laugh at a piece of clever parody.
The film is at once a competent, somewhat contrived espionage thriller and a dizzily clever parody of spy-movie conventions.
Michael Kidd's choreography illuminates the production numbers—"That's Entertainment," "Dancing in the Dark," and a clever parody of Mickey Spillane's hard-boiled detective novels, "The Girl Hunt".
Mr. Mitchell and Mr. Costabile stood next to the puppet theater, designed by Mr. Beatty as a clever parody of City Center's gold-rimmed proscenium arch, and added their sounds to the sight of the four new cast members.
Agency: Colenso BBDO (Auckland) Director: Nick Ball You don't need to be familiar with the campaign that inspired this clever parody for a Swedish cancer charity in order to fully appreciate its impact.
Dorsey devises plenty of Stoogelike antics for Serge, but he also offers clever parodies of the tourists, truckers and conventioneers who stumble into his manic hero's path.
At the opening ceremony for the Games, clever parodies of the traditional icons of the bush, the beach, and the suburban backyard showed how vigorously this challenge was met.
There is also a whole series of clever parodies of classic works of art, even if these are not quite so thick on the ground as Astérix's most intellectual fans would have us believe.
Admittedly, it is a simple scenario, and some of the doings get precious, but Andrew Lloyd Webber's score features a typically hummable assortment of glowing anthems, bouncy British music-hall ditties, clever parodies and syncopated marches crowned by that now-and-forever standard "Memory".
Indeed, the usual irreverent humour of the Lego series is retained here (apparently with the full blessing and understanding of the Lord of the Ring licensors, the Saul Zaentz Company), via clever parodies of Tolkien lore as well as plenty of knockabout slapstick.
