Sentence examples for spoof comedy from inspiring English sources

Spoof comedy doesn't amuse, it annoys.

Epic Movie Scary Movie-like spoof comedy.

For half a century, starting in 1945, Bob and his partner Ray Goulding, who passed away in 1990, created a unique kind of spoof comedy.

And with the 2013 collapse of Revolver Entertainment – the company that distributed the likes of Sket, Shank and Offender as well as Ben Drew's debut Ill Manors and Adam Deacon's spoof comedy Anuvahood – the genre was widely considered to have been exploited to death.

Landing outside the top 10 with £154,000 from 226 screens, including £44,000 in previews, the spoof comedy A Haunted House was predictably rejected by the market, which as recently as April was treated to Scary Movie 5. Rounding out a trio of disappointments is plucky Brit flick Spike Island, which lands with a lethargic £56,000 from 99 screens, and a £565 average.

Scot Squad is back on the beat with filming underway on the fifth series of BBC Scotland's spoof comedy series.

The romantic chemistry is so potent between Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo that I am tempted this morning to sit down to another viewing of their 2006 spy-spoof comedy OSS 117: Cairo, Nest Of Spies, in which Dujardin plays a dopey agent opposite Bejo's activist Larmina El Akmar Betouche.

Plus, it's spawned countless spoofs, comedy sketches and a musical.

"These days there is such variety in television comedy, with spoofs, comedy thrillers, 'mockumentaries', all out there, we can afford to take a look back at the classics," he said.

Among the 42 acts that will perform this year at 14 sites within a roughly three-block radius of downtown Westport are the News in Revue, a news-spoofing comedy troupe, and the Japanese drummer Taiko Masala.

But the world of late-night basic-cable news-spoof comedy was too big a lure.