Sentence examples for playing a parody from inspiring English sources

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Dahl even recorded and started playing a parody of Rod Stewart's "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?", which he called "Do You Think I'm Disco?".

As good as McCarthy is, Coyle also has kudos for Statham, who "nearly steals the film by playing a parody of his own grave, gonzo persona".

But even were Houellebecq, as so many critics suggest, being less than candid in his writing and to interviewers -- "Houellebecq often seems to be playing a parody of himself," wrote The New York Times -- this ought not to remove any accountability from him as a writer.

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He plays a parody of the camp ringmaster with requisite handsomeness, agility and charisma.

Jan Ravens played a parody version of Gwen in the impressionist television series Dead Ringers, in which she displays a badge labelling her with what Jon Culshaw's Captain Jack describes as her sole characteristic: Welsh.

At least in Everybody's Fine, he neither plays a character who kills someone or plays a parody of Robert De Niro as either a crook or cop who kills someone.

When I think of Arnie, I think back to watching a rented tape of his most misunderstood and inconsistent vehicle, Last Action Hero (1993), a film in which he essentially plays a parody of muscled movie guys, including himself.

Part of the co-editor job here at TechCrunch is fending off some of the clunky things that our parent company does, like holding an internal Aol Disrupt, or playing a Taylor Swift parody during all hands or making us log into our TechCrunch emails with our Aol accounts.

They turned into SNL and laughed at Eddie Murphy playing Mr. Robinson, a parody of the beloved Mister Rogers, teaching all the kids the fine points of breaking and entering.

But then Rameswaram came back on and played a song parody, whose lyrics listed the people Trump has fired, to the tune of "Single Ladies".

The mythological tale of Indra seducing Ahalya after disguising as her husband Gautama and the curse cast by Gautama on them is parodied in the film with Brahmanandam playing a key role in the parody.

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