as in playfulness
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Lonely Planet’s depiction of elite authors could count as scathing satire if the film had a sharper knack for detail, or any sense of humor.Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Oct. 2024
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Iconoclast is producing the satire with Robert Walak, Jacob Perlin and Romain Gavras, alongside Gregory Jankilevitsch and Klaudia Smieja-Rostworowska of Mid March Media, and Giorgios Karnavas of Heretic.Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2024
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Kamala Harris faces off against Donald Trump in Family Feud for SNL cold open: 'Show me dementia!' Coolidge wasn't the only celeb who got the spoof treatment during Grande’s SNL visit.Shania Russell, EW.com, 13 Oct. 2024
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One scene that was cut — that, in fact, was never filmed — would have required Spelling to go topless in a spoof of the 1982 horror film The Entity starring Barbara Hershey.John Russell, People.com, 15 Oct. 2024
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When Mario raises his hammer, Luigi can whack it from below and send Mario somersaulting into a foe to deal extra damage with slapstick glee.Josh Broadwell, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2024
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Raimi directs the first episode, Campbell stars throughout, and this is slapstick gore at its finest.Simon Hill, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2024
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Her stunt, though, wrote tragedy and farce into the congressional record.Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2024
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So, that all happened, as did the massive flop of Hwang’s M. Butterfly follow-up Face Value, a farce loosely based on the Saigon brouhaha in which fictional white actors play fictional Asian characters in a play within the play.Greg Evans, Deadline, 1 Oct. 2024
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Fight Club is at heart a dry roast of masculinity, a burlesque of the models and habits with which men define and often destroy themselves to avoid emoting or being vulnerable.Stephen Kearse, The Atlantic, 15 Oct. 2024
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Other activities include truffle-hunting, bike rides, lavender weaving and burlesque sessions.Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 27 Sep. 2024
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At times sounding like a fanatical parody of the Mann of Reflections, Naphta argues that love of freedom and pleasure is weaker than the desire to obey.George Packer, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
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The line between parody and true life shifts, sometimes mid-sentence.Brendan Menapace, SPIN, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Jocularity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jocularity. Accessed 10 Nov. 2024.
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