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NEWS ABOUT: parody

parody stories: 18 news summaries
THE NEXT BESTSELLER?

 Lampoon Lampoons 
 Twilight With Nightlight 

Edwart's no vamp, he just has nosebleeds, but don't tell Belle

Nov 3, 09 12:27 PM CST
(Newser) - She's a klutzy transplant to the Oregon town of Switchblade who falls for a computer geek with nosebleeds named Edwart. “Looking into his eyes I felt waves of electricity, currents of electrons charging towards me. Was this how it felt to be in love ... for robots?” Yes, it's Belle,... More »

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film • parody • satire • publishing • book • movies • sequel • Twilight • Harvard University • Harvard Lampoon

 Catholics 
 Rip Larry for 
 Whizzing 
 on Jesus 

Urine taken for 'miraculous tears' by Curb characters

Oct 30, 09 4:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - The US Catholic League has complained about an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm that shows Larry David accidentally urinating on a painting of Jesus hanging in a bathroom. Other characters then think the painting is miraculously crying. "Was Larry David always this crude?" asked angry league president Bill Donahue.... More »

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parody • satire • Larry David • Curb Your Enthusiasm • comedy • Catholic League • Catholic • Jesus Christ

 Rogue Anti-Palin Book Coming 

Essay collection uses similar art, title

Oct 21, 09 1:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Look out, Sarah Palin fans. If you’re not careful when you run out to buy Going Rogue: An American Life, the ex-governor’s memoir, you might accidentally grab Going Rouge: Sarah Palin, An American Nightmare. A Palin-bashing essay collection from the editors of The Nation has pilfered... More »

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parody • memoir • book • Sarah Palin • publishing industry • Going Rogue

Onion Peels Into Greeting Card Business

Yesterday's fake headlines become today's salutations

Oct 6, 09 9:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - Real newspapers take note: The Onion has found a way to squeeze some money out of its back issues. A new line of greeting cards based on its parody articles has hit Target, giving Americans the perfect way to convey sentiments like "Search for Self Called Off After 38... More »

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newspaper • parody • publishing • The Onion • greetings cards

 Will Ferrell and Pals: 
 'Save Our Health Execs' 

'What's so American about competition?' asks snarky video pushing for public option

Sep 22, 09 1:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Will Ferrell thinks we need to remember the people who really matter in the health care debate: insurance executives. The comedian has produced a star-studded parody ad for MoveOn.org in which he and his fellow actors decry the evils of the reform movement. “Why is Obama trying to... More »

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parody • health care reform • MoveOn.org • Will Ferrell • Jon Hamm • public option

glossies

 Real 
 Colbert: 
 'I Embody 
 the Bullshit' 

Earnest Colbert calls himself unambitious, religious

Sep 3, 09 8:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - It wasn't Stephen Colbert's on-screen persona who turned up for a recent Rolling Stone interview, but the real Stephen Colbert—a man as "preppy, earnest, and gentle" as Ned Flanders. In the interview, Colbert dishes on his style of deconstructing the news: "I take the sausage backwards, and... More »

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parody • comedy • Jon Stewart • talk show • Stephen Colbert • The Colbert Report

Ad Exec Scores as UPS 'Whiteboard Guy'

Whiteboard guy prompts FedEx parody

Jun 23, 09 11:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - He’s an ad exec by trade, but Andy Azula displays his acting chops—not to mention his drawing skills—in UPS commercials so popular a rival is spoofing them. In the ads, the long-haired Azula diagrams UPS service on a whiteboard. FedEx recently launched a website that features a... More »

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parody • commercials • FedEx • United Parcel Service Inc. • ad campaign • Andy Azula • UPS

(Newser) - Ready or not, Weird Al is back. The king of geeky parody music has released a new single making fun of Craigslist, CNET reports. There’s no reference to, say, prostitution ads—just Yankovic’s goofy riff on the site’s strange brand of commerce. It’s also a musical... More »

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entertainment • Craig Newmark • parody • Craigslist • The Doors • Al Yankovic • Ray Manzarek

 Dems Spoof 
 'Marooned' GOP 

Web ad likens Republicans to Survivor cast

May 6, 09 8:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - A new DNC ad touts the latest Survivor series: the GOP edition, the Huffington Post reports. The Web spot begins with Sen. Olympia Snowe, the “Last of the Moderates,” describing how being a Republican moderate can feel like “being a cast member of Survivor,” and goes... More »

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television • reality TV • advertising • parody • Olympia Snowe • Republican Party • Democratic National Committee • advertisements • Survivor • DNC

Education Law in Dire
Need of New Name

Ridicule of No Child Left Behind prompts search

Feb 23, 09 7:58 AM CST
(Newser) - No Child Left Behind has become “the most negative brand in America,” says a congressman, and new Education Secretary Arne Duncan says it’s time for a new name for the law. Educators and jokesters alike are trying their hand at rebranding, the New York Times reports. Proposals... More »

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Bush administration • education • parody • joke • No Child Left Behind • George W. Bush • rebranding • Obama administration

 PETA Flays 
 Burger King 
 With Parody 
 Perfume 

Parody perfume launched to douse 'Flame'

Dec 24, 08 11:45 AM CST
(Newser) - If PETA had its way, right away, burger joints would close their doors forever, but the never-warm-and-fuzzy relationship reached a flashpoint last week when Burger King launched a meat-scented cologne called Flame. Now PETA is adding fuel to the fire with a parody fragrance called "Gore by Murder King,... More »

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McDonald's • parody • animal rights • PETA • KFC • vegetarianism • fragrance • Burger King

Iman Crosson for Prez...
on SNL: Bloggers

Should he be Fred Armisen's replacement?

Nov 27, 08 12:09 PM CST
(Newser) - The race to find a new comedian to impersonate president-elect Barack Obama on Saturday Night Live continues, reports ABC News, and bloggers such as Andrew Sullivan and Anovelista have the man for the job. Meet Iman Crosson, whose Obama imitations can be found on his YouTube AlphaCat channel. More »

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Saturday Night Live • Barack Obama • politics • parody • humor • Andrew Sullivan • comedian • Fred Armisen • impersonator • Iman Crosson

 Palin Draws Record 
 SNL Audience 

Some 14 million eyeball 'Caribou Barbie'

Oct 20, 08 4:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - The largest audience in 14 years tuned in to Saturday Night Live to watch Sarah Palin come face-to-face with doppleganger Tina Fey, reports AP. Actually, it wasn't quite face-to-face as Fey skirted past the candidate after skewering her yet again at a faux press conference on the comedy show. The... More »

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Saturday Night Live • parody • comedy • Tina Fey • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin

 Fey Flays Palin in SNL Debate 

Plays flute for the 'talent portion'

Oct 5, 08 6:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - Comedian Tina Fey clobbered Sarah Palin in yet another dead-on Saturday Night Live skit yesterday, reports the Chicago Sun-Times, skewering the candidate's stance as a maverick, her relentless folksiness, and repeated feints at last week's debate to dodge questions. Asked what she would do about the economic crisis, Fey/Palin, winking,... More »

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Saturday Night Live • Joe Biden • parody • Tina Fey • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin

 Tina Kills Again as Sarah 

Foreign experience? She tells Russians who stray into Alaska to 'shoo'

Sep 28, 08 9:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - Comedian Tina Fey skewered Sarah Palin in a command reprise performance on Saturday Night Live last night. This time, Fey parodied the candidate's foibles during her interview with Katie Couric, reports Comedy Centric. In the opening sketch, Fey, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Palin, is stumped by a question... More »

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Saturday Night Live • parody • Tina Fey • debate • Election 2008 • Amy Poehler • Sarah Palin • interview

NEW RELEASE

Dewey Cox Rocks!

Despite being a little uneven, Judd Apatow parody provides lots of laughs

Dec 21, 07 4:35 PM CST
(Newser) - Judd Apatow's Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story "is less thoughtful satire and ... more the distant cousin of Airplane!," writes Brian Orndorf of OhMyNews.com. Starring John C. Reilly as a blues prodigy who ultimately experiences success, failure, and redemption, it plays like "an extended riff... More »

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parody • comedy • movie review • biography • Johnny Cash • Judd Apatow • John C. Reilly

The Man Behind the Smile

Chinese artist takes New York with his signature troubling grin

Nov 14, 07 5:38 PM CST
(Newser) - It's contemporary Chinese art's most indelible image—the smile so huge it becomes false, accusatory—and it belongs to Yue Minjun, the artist who uses the grinning self-portraits, often many of them, in his paintings. The New York Times chats with Yue, who is enjoying his first US show in... More »

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parody • Chinese art • art • Sotheby's • Tiananmen Square • painting • Yue Minjun • terra cotta

Dylan, Dr.Seuss Can't Mix

Humble parodists no match for corporate Goliaths wielding copyright law

Apr 13, 07 11:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - Dr. Seuss's estate has knocked down a website by artist/jokerman Kevin Ryan, featuring the fantasist's verses set to fake Bob Dylan music. The loss of the brilliant mash-up prompts Salon's Dan Brekke to explore how the times are a' changin' for copyright law, particularly in the murky and amorphous area... More »

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copyright law • intellectual property • parody • satire • Bob Dylan • Dr. Seuss

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