For The Fast Show, I created Louis Balfour, or The Jazzman as he's affectionately known, whose catchphrase that was. Louis is still my most recognised Fast Show character: through him, we gently lampooned the genre for the full six-year run of the show in the 90s.
Governments have always had a problem with the arts because we ask them for money, then we lampoon them.
They laugh with us when we lampoon the more outrageous kind of black race hustler — a Sharpton, a Farrakhan, a Johnny Cochran.
Mr. Roberts said he was on vacation when the Foley scandal broke and the network's president, Rich Cronin, called him to ask, "How do we lampoon this situation without going overboard?" During the game, "The Stars and Stripes Forever" plays in the background.
At one level, richly caricatured and lampooned, we are cousins to apes.
In a scene of Whitehall nabobs discussing what to exhibit at the fair, we get British philistinism lampooned by way of the blimpish Sir John Balfour who suggests a military tattoo, and British progressiveness embodied in the counter-suggestion of a history of the water closet, with Sir John growing apoplectic at the assertion that even Her Majesty does "number twos".
As Zinoman pointed out -- and admittedly related to -- the sketch in which we were given the term, "Hello M'lady" highlighted an instantly recognizable behavior that we had never really seen lampooned on TV before.
During a speech denouncing the Iran deal, Trump used REM's It's the End of the World as We Know It – which Oliver lampooned as almost too perfect.
Morano, a reliable font of aggression (she was once filmed harassing a Senegalese-born street vender, telling him, "We can't welcome all the Senegalese"), is lampooned in the French media as a poissonnière, or fishwife.
It can be lampooned as Daily Express nostalgia in which we all respect one another, take parenting seriously, undertake community service, don't wear hooded tops, nor mindlessly spray paint over any passing blank wall.
