Sentence examples for sharp parody from inspiring English sources

Ben Kasulke's photography is lovely, and Robert Hamilton Wright (recalling Paul Benedict's turn as the loony director in "The Goodbye Girl") delivers a sharp parody of fringe-theater eccentricity.

Billed as "the longest running sci-fi show in American history", its 13 seasons have been filmed within various Halo games as a sharp parody of science fiction and gaming tropes alike.

That was a small yet sharp parody of Facebook's ubiquity, but ['The D'oh-cial Network'] lays into the same topic with a less deft touch".

There are some sharp parodies of his originals, but also plenty of writing which even slips the leash of its own plot.

Any retelling of the over-mythologised Kray twins' tale walks a thin line between the glamorised cliches of Ronnie and Reggie nostalgia and the pin-sharp parody of Monty Python's Piranha brothers' Doug and Dinsdale sketch.

And it was only the first act of an involved set piece that included sharp self-parody, suspense and the casual poetry of a born storyteller.

He even includes the transcript of a mental health interview that evaluates one character's sanity and a sharp-eyed parody of Oprah Winfrey's television show.

The Pirates of Penzance (1879) is more uneven than Mikado, but bristles with enough good songs and choruses, as well as sharp musical parodies, to make a cheerful show.

The treatments are savage parodies of the nonsense that we're all subjected to on the small screen, but they're also highly plausible, which just makes the parody sharper.

Their first album, Meet the Be Sharps, is a parody of the Meet the Beatles album.

Entertainment Weekly ranked "Radio Bart" as the twentieth best episode of The Simpsons and commented that "it's a media parody so sharp, we're still stinging a bit".