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.
Naturally, some of these attempts spread to social media, and others were aimed directly at
lampooning other superhero films.
Franco, Seth Rogan, Jonah Hill, Jay Baruchel, Craig Robinson, Danny McBride and an ensemble of their famous friends all play themselves,
lampooning each other and the folly of celebrity culture.
They lampoon the other side as favoring «drill and kill» or wanting students to invent their own algorithms, stumbling blindly forward in hopes of intuiting their way to the Pythagorean theorem.
Not exact matches
Yet all three disavowed partisan agendas, often welcoming as guests the same public figures — from Bill Clinton to Donald Trump — whom they
lampooned on
other nights.
In honour of this latest bit of inter-brand
lampooning, here are a few
other mocking ads that hit home.
On the
other hand, he romanticises territorial fissures that Gen. Yakubu Gowon started, as a «process of national integration and cohesion», which nevertheless folks elsewhere would
lampoon as military era «unitary federalism», which Gowon started with 12 states but which, at the last count, was 36.
Fey reprised her role as Sarah Palin for a musical - themed segment that
lampooned current and former Trump administration staffers, as well as
other linked figures, including Rex Tillerson (John Goodman), Kellyanne Conway (Kate McKinnon), Sarah Huckabee Sanders (Aidy Bryant), Michael Wolff (Armisen), Omarosa (Leslie Jones) and Stormy Daniels (Cecily Strong).
And we have been
lampooned together including Ambrose Dery among
others.»
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.
One notorious line in the film Cruel Intentions refers to the email format as the last bastion of «social recluses,» and numerous
other media have
lampooned the process of online dating at one time or another.Needless to say, times have changed, and opinions on this subject have shifted dramatically.
He's not in Mark Wahlberg's league, and 21 Jump Street isn't quite as funny as «The
Other Guys,» but by
lampooning himself here, Tatum has bought himself a grace period to grow in.
The college -
lampoon mood is set early, with a title sequence promising, among
other characters, «a British villain» and «a sexy chick,» and explaining that the film is produced by «some asshole» and written by «the real heroes here.»
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).
The Cornetto Trilogy, as it has come to be known, works so well as comedy because of its caricatures and
lampooning of traditional clichés; Cuban Fury on the
other hand falls into these clichés almost consistently, playing out exactly as you'd expect.
The whole episode affectionately
lampoons New York brashness: the degree to which New Yorkers express all their emotions, friendly as well as hostile, by yelling at the top of their lungs at each
other is part of the comic point (Mueller - Stahl, a relative newcomer to the city, usually just gapes in admiration at the
other two).
The franchise has also been licensed into
other media, such as television series, comics, children's books, and a critically
lampooned feature film.
Other TV properties
lampooned are MTV's «Cribs» and «Punk'd.»
Artist Olivia Locher, who scoured the statute books of all 50 states in America, discovering these peculiar eccentricities and many
others, doesn't have the answers to these questions, but has created a series of striking photographic images
lampooning some of the hundreds of decisions, big and small, made every year by local and state lawmakers.
Donald Rumsfeld was widely
lampooned for that «known unknowns» quotation that informs the exhibition title, but artists (and
others) are increasingly fascinated by it.
The mysterious writer has used his blog, the Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, to
lampoon Mr. Jobs and his reputation as a difficult and egotistical leader, as well as to skewer
other high - tech companies, tech journalists, venture capitalists, open - source software fanatics and Silicon Valley's overall aura of excess.
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.