Sentences with phrase «which lampoons»

Its tone is similar to that of the comedy series, W1A, which lampoons the bureaucrats, middle - managers and marketing consultants who haunt the corridors of the BBC.

Comedienne Amy Schumer has drawn a lot of eyes (and sometimes ire) for her Comedy Central sketch show Inside Amy Schumer, which lampoons, subverts and raises the ground under many traditional American roles women find themselves pigeonholed in at work,...

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).

The pairing of Marcel Broodthaers and Hanne Darboven in a single text would seem to favor the former's methods, which lampooned and utilized the idiosyncrasies and serendipities of surface and contingency that brought about such a pairing in the first... Read More

Rothko and a friend, Aaron Director, started a satirical magazine, The Yale Saturday Evening Pest, which lampooned the school's stuffy, bourgeois tone.

The pairing of Marcel Broodthaers and Hanne Darboven in a single text would seem to favor the former's methods, which lampooned and utilized the idiosyncrasies and serendipities of surface and contingency that brought about such a pairing in the first place — which is to say the occurrence of two contemporaneous exhibitions in two major German institutions by two artists who dealt with issues of archive, text - as - image, and art - as - work just as these tropes have re-emerged as the historically available «next - big - thing.»

SkS was caught attempting to delete their own content in which they lampooned prominent skeptics, and for some odd reason, depicted their site administrator John Cook (no relation to me) as a WWII German SS officer.

Not exact matches

In the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo attack, publications in Russia, China and Malaysia — all of which have been criticised for suppressing free speech — said the magazine was wrong to lampoon Islam.

Among Mr. Gurley's main concerns are Silicon Valley's growing self - importance, which he has said is expertly captured in «Silicon Valley,» the HBO show that lampoons the misadventures of several entrepreneurs who hope to strike it rich.

In «Mr. Bad Example,» he lampooned the greed of the eighties, and in «Boom Boom Mancini» and «The Hockey Song» he questioned the hidden violence which often drives American sports.

With their new classical names, and their insights into history and literature, their attitudes stretched all the way from a lampooning of the gullible piety of the masses to a more philosophical agnosticism or a mysticism, which stood apart from ecclesiastical authority.

The elite Ohanaeze represents the political aristocrats, who had been part and parcel of the gravy since 1960; and after the Civil War — faithful collaborators with the Northern power elite, which IPOB now lampoons.

McMillan came to national attention as a political novelty for his performance in a 2010 gubernatorial debate, which was subsequently lampooned on Saturday Night Live.

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.

The «interactive» elements of the exhibition — suitably underdone for a publication which so often lampoons the techno - obsessed — superbly conjure up what the curator, Julius Bryant, calls «the creative mayhem in the editor's office, the Aladdin's cave of detritus».

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.

Mark and Sue were sacked last autumn for unsubstantiated allegations relating to a satirical newsletter in which some senior managers felt they had been lampooned.

The topsy - turvy race between Republican U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm and his Democratic opponent, Domenic Recchia, which has seen everything from a 20 - count federal indictment against the incumbent to the challenger being lampooned by Jon Stewart on «The Daily Show,» was hit with another bombshell on Friday when the results of the latest

The British satirical magazine Punch, which back in 1859 had lampooned «mauve measles» as a fashion epidemic that should be treated with a «dose of ridicule,» by 1888 was singing the praises of aniline chemistry, with only a tinge of sarcasm:

We see his reasons in a flashback which leads to a deliciously on - target lampoon of a James Bond opening musical number (song courtesy of Celine Dion) complete with Deadpool - inspired fake credits that act as a commentary on the prologue.

Some of the lampooning is tacked - on like the non-idyllic portrayals of LA and NY, but «Mother's Day» is first and foremost a rabid exploitation movie and it drips an unbearably sickening atmosphere (the supernatural Queenie freeze - frame is a pulpy jump scare) which is the purpose of these films.

Blind faith, virgin birth, crucifixion — nothing is sacred in this epic send - up of ancient times, which draws on the cornball biblical blockbusters of the 1950s to lampoon celebrity culture in any era.

Even forgetting the completely silly and incongruous ending — which, in characteristic Italian fashion, implies that marriage is a fate far worse than death — «The 10th Victim» is a messed - up ball of competing impulses and half - baked ideas, and probably most famous among younger cinephiles, in pay - it - forward fashion, for inspiring the machine - gun - bosom lampooned in «Austin Powers.»

Credit due too in large to the script also, which meanders around chronology at an easy pace, dealing anecdotes as a means to a thematic narrative rather than the more traditional model excellently lampooned in Walk Hard.

Not a terrible idea (i.e., making the boring, button - down dork the centre of a satirical romance) for a movie as self - serving, self - pitying, neo-Woody Allen ideas go, but as The Baxter unfolds with a suspiciously - familiar series of contrived situations, gentle misunderstandings involving homosexuality and a strange woman in your bed, and a parade of women so far out of Elliot's league as to render his eventual abandonment as inevitable as his ultimate match (with Cecil (Michelle Williams), likewise far out of his league) is unlikely, it becomes clear that the flick is just as stupid as that which it purports to lampoon.

An irony, tough to process in these confusing times, is that Barr is an outspoken supporter of Donald Trump, which feels like a betrayal of an implicitly progressive series that once viciously lampooned, in a legendary sketch, the hypocrisy of Republican tax breaks.

The actor had been falling into a repetitive rut, which we've lampooned here before as «The Dead Wives Club», but comes thankfully unstuck, even to the point of unhinged.

Lanky and spaghetti - limbed, Nighy provides much of the comic relief in «Their Finest,» which lovingly lampoons the cockamamie cavalcade of cinema, especially the sausagemaking ritual whereby a real - life story becomes massaged into stirring, audience - friendly entertainment.

Cooper claims Argento, though labeled early in his career as the «Italian Hitchcock,» spent his early, gialli - focused years lambasting and lampooning «Freudian proclivities,» most notably in The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1969), which positions itself as a Psycho (1960) homage, only to jest at Hitchcock's insistence upon closure via psychological ends.

I Know... is a more conventional thriller than Scream, which mined a mother lode of satire with its lampooning of horror clichés.

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).

Audiences are confronted with clichés, distortions, and brilliant sleights of hand that force us to go beyond the lampoon and shift the lens through which we perceive race in order to confront our own bias.

The play is a sharp lampoon of the rigid British class system of the day and a commentary on women's independence.In ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures, which then came to life.

Abstract expressionism came with a lot of critical as well as artistic bullshit, much of which Ad Reinhardt gleefully lampooned in his coruscating cartoons and statements.

So this lionizing process of first obfuscating mediocrity and then elevating the mediocre and greedy and power - hungry is what Federico Solmi seems to lampoon in his visually stunning animated paintings which were one of the highlights of the Bushwick Open Studios.

Executed on distressed unprimed linen, they were dominated by giant penis forms doubling variously as military tanks and despotic heads of state — as in Cockman # 1 (1966) in which Bernstein lampooned Governor George Wallace of Alabama, depicting the face of the southern segregationist as a pink hairy testicle sack with a flaccid member for a nose.

The show also includes a six - minute sound installation titled «Spiderman,» in which Bradford delivers an off - color comedy routine that lampoons the often crass and macho language of stand - up.

Presented in the context of the film, it's emblematic of the disingenuousness of the industry's attempts to solve everything with public relations, (which is indeed is an easy target for lampoon).

The applicant filed an Application using the name of a cartoon character, containing allegations he acknowledges are «ridiculous» that appear intended to lampoon views with which he disagrees.