In the spring of 2020, as memes of Mayor Lori Lightfoot advising ballplayers to ditch basketball courts and stay home amid the coronavirus pandemic made rounds on the Internet, videos of her counterpart “Lory Litefoot” would soon swirl on the interwebs and bring Chicagoans a persona they could actually laugh at without remorse. Portrayed by […]
Tag: parody
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Riane Konc wants to help you Build Your Own Christmas Movie Romance
The choose-your-own-adventure-style parody features all the best tropes and treats of made-for-TV holiday specials.
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SnowGirls puts the X back in Xmas
Hell in a Handbag delivers another naughty holiday parody.
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Wild Women of Planet Wongo lacks the verve of a true camp classic
The immersive theater experience never achieves liftoff.
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The Unauthorized Full House Story and Documentary Now! look for laughs in the details
Or the lack thereof
Posted inMusic
When folk music loses touch with “folks”
The old weird America is gone, but on Waterdrawn the Horse’s Ha shows that hippies are just as scary.
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Brand-new Black Flag T-shirts!
Hilarious new T-shirts parody the ridiculous Black Flag reunion shows.
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Parodies lost: why satire must be banned from the Internet
A modest proposal for a serious problem
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Action Movie: The Play–The Director’s Cut
Last summer Defiant Theatre company members Joe Foust and Richard Ragsdale caught lightning in a bottle with their wacky, whip-smart parody of the action genre’s most egregious cliches, performed to enthusiastic audiences at the American Theater Company and Theater on the Lake. Yet Foust and Ragsdale went back and revised their script in an effort […]
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Allegro non troppo
Bruno Bozzetto’s parody of Disney’s Fantasia is a collection of animated sketches accompanying classical music pieces (by Debussy, Dvorak, Ravel, Sibelius, Stravinsky, and Vivaldi), with live-action slapstick sequences featuring cowriter Maurizio Nichetti (The Icicle Thief). It’s not only a hilarious send-up of Disney’s excesses but a splendid cartoon feature in its own right–funny and imaginative […]