Sentences with word «lampoon»

It was a well done lampoon of cheesy horror flicks, but with a twist.

Both were ripe for lampooning in the latest episode of Saturday Night Live where the award - winning actor made his hosting debut.

Google's (GOOG) Glass headset has been widely lampooned for how conspicuous it is; electronic wristbands have been more widely accepted.

Much of Terrence Davies» Emily Dickinson biopic A Quiet Passion seems to play into that sort of stuffy repressed vaguely Victorian sort of snore-fest that's so often lampooned by the general audience that looks at a movie like The English Patient and wonders how it could be the best movie of the year.

Especially if one has recently seen Charlie Brooker's NAKED GUN - style spoof of the genre, A TOUCH OF CLOTH, which lampoons most of the codes and conventions that BLOOD extols (The spoof even featured Brian Cox, one of the principle characters in this film).

He was often lampooned as a ridiculous figure.

Developer Xatrix didn't hold back from lampooning on redneck culture, with pork rinds and Googoo clusters providing our hillbilly heroes with health - restoring sustenance.

Brilliant on the level of pure entertainment, and smart - and still consistently funny - in terms of the treatment of its source material, by lampooning with such insightful wit, The Lego Batman Movie, ironically, also ends up being a great Batman movie in its own right.

Indeed, throughout the 1930s, Pacelli was widely lampooned in the Nazi press as Pius XI's «Jew - loving» cardinal.

Though Trump still has a role on the show, it didn't stop him from lampooning Schwarzenegger for his lower ratings.

Naturally, some of these attempts spread to social media, and others were aimed directly at lampooning other superhero films.

The characters are all over-the-top stereotypes and the film lampoons everyone.

Denmark became a target of radical Islamists in 2005 after the publication of cartoons lampooning the Prophet Mohammad, which led to sometimes deadly protests in the Muslim world.

This is commendable, but it's also a little disappointing to note that Superhero movie simply doesn't lampoon enough films.

We mercilessly lampoon politicians and other public figures, because they deserve it, and it knocks them off their hyped - up pedestals, bringing them back to earth with the rest of us.

The governors also lampooned Gulak for daring to unilaterally declare himself the new chairman of the party without recourse to the appropriate organs of the party.

Comedian John Crist spends a lot of time lampooning Christian culture, pastors and churches, but in his new video, he takes defense of churches who have received one - star reviews on...

Having recently listened to a joke commentary that was rather entertaining, it's interesting how the same concept can go so wrong in this profane, terribly unfunny discussion that unsuccessfully lampoons other commentaries.

Inside the Actor's Studio is obviously some cable show in the States and has been lampooned here by the cast.

I'd say this one is a notch above Volume XXXII when it comes to bonus features: It has more of the historical stuff that gives a wider perspective to the movies lampooned by Mike, Joel, and the bots.

The show even lampoons its own religious eclecticism.

It's quite funny to see a film indulge, with the straightest of faces, in all those cheesy horror movie clichés that Wes Craven lampooned so well (and so recently) in Scream.

We mercilessly lampoon politicians and other public figures, because they deserve it, and it knocks them off their hyped - up pedestals, bringing them back to earth with the rest of us.

Saturday Night Live also had a big night as Kate McKinnon won Best Actress in a Comedy Series while Alec Baldwin took home Best Guest Performer in a Comedy Series for his work lampooning President Elect Donald Trump.

Let us now praise businessmen: the Coens» whisper - thin caper keeps an ironic remove while lampooning the system

Banksy opened Dismaland, a large scale group show lampooning Disneyland on 21 August 2015 and permanently closed on 27 September 2015.

Let's look at an example: Jonah Goldberg, editor at large for the National Review Online, started a recent article lampooning the Gore documentary on global warming with the line:

Nobel Laureate Prof Wole Soyinka has lampooned President Muhammadu Buhari over his presence in Kano state to attend the wedding of the children of two Nigerian governors.

The challenger later claimed to «have great knowledge of foreign affairs» based on his overseas vacations and his operation of a foreign exchange student program in Japan at a Brooklyn high school — which culminated in a vicious national lampooning on the Daily Show.

Murphy's film brilliantly lampooned prejudice and our unspoken attitudes about race, exclusion, and otherness in a way that was radical for the time.

Divekick, due out sometime this summer, is a celebration and satire of the world of competitive fighting games, lampooning prominent figures and trends from the community.

After the NFL fined Lynch this season for deflecting postgame questions from media, Sherman performed a press conference skit with wide receiver Doug Baldwin lampooning how the league has commercialized the sport — for example, punishing players harshly for alcohol - related charges while claiming beer companies as its biggest sponsors.

They're perhaps the most surprisingly effective team through 12 weeks after being lampooned much of the offseason.

Look at Exhibits A (taken from the Labour Party website) and B, from Nick Watt's blog where he noted that «Labour has launched this poster lampooning George Osborne»:

For once, an overly familiar plot is intended to be overly familiar as this action comedy lampoons nearly every fantasy - sci - fi - comic - book - pirate - cowboy movie cliché that has been in existence at least since George Lucas and Steven Spielberg turned Hollywood into a blockbuster - producing boy - toy factory.

Josh Hutcherson's small, image - lampooning part is an absolute scream proving that MacIntyre and company have pop cultural insights to spare, and proper comedic timing to boot.

This kind of loving lampoon rarely works, but the reference - riddled script (full of loopy puns and clever gags), energetic direction and excessive performances capture the right mix of gee whiz and come hither.

The whiteness and maleness of tech was lampooned throughout Brooklyn 99 actress Chelsea Peretti's comedic set as host, and TechCrunch senior writer Jordan Crook told Inc. prior to the event that diversity and inclusion would be running themes.

He was certainly one of the most lampooned, as evidenced by a recurring «Tonight Show» gag involving a dance troupe called «The Dancing Itos,» clad in glasses, beards and judicial robes.

It was so stupendously bad that it even got lampooned by Saturday Night Live:

With a trophy drought ever extending, and a perceived inability (or unwillingness) to bring in the top players, Wenger would have been lampooned beyond belief to pass on a player of Cesc's undoubted skills.

During his first few decades as an actor, Bill Macy took whatever was readily available: poetry - reading jobs, movie bits, comedy - record gigs (he's the operatic cabdriver in the classical music lampoon The Wurst of PDQ Bach) and off - Broadway stage assignments.

Screenwriter Kevin Williamson's follow - up to Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer ultimately comes off as a prototypical teen slasher that unapologetically emphasizes many of the conventions and clichés lampooned within his 1996 debut.

When they set out to create an animated satire of Donald Trump's presidency, the creators of Our Cartoon President faced the challenge of effectively lampooning the president in a climate that is not lacking for Trump - bashing.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone successfully lampooned and honoured the RPG genre in their first attempt, however, its overworld felt empty and the battle system wanted for more challenge, more abilities, and more variety.

The movie's old school conception of heroism and values wouldn't work without some nifty writing — Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely's script makes it clear Steve wants to go to war not to kill the enemy but to keep some other poor soul being killed — and a great central performance by Chris Evans's, who sublimates all the cockiness he displayed in Fantastic Four (and then expertly lampooned in Scott Pilgrim).