There were Carry On films in which James played characters who were not called Sid or Sidney, namely, Carry On Henry ( a parody of Henry VIII ) and Carry On Dick ( a spoof of legendary highwayman Dick Turpin ), in both of which he played the title roles, and Carry On Cleo, in which he played Mark Antony.

In the final years of his life, Nielsen appeared in numerous spoof and parody films, many of which were met poorly by critics, but performed well in box office and home media releases.

episode " Star Koopa ", being a spoof of Star Wars, also had its own parody of Obi-Wan Kenobi called Obi-Wan Toadi.

In addition to standard humor, parody, spoof, and pastiche have had a long tradition within the field of crime fiction.

A more recent example of a spoof, which at the same time shows that the borderline between serious mystery and its parody is necessarily blurred, is U. S. mystery writer Lawrence Block's novel The Burglar in the Library ( 1997 ).

Several films spoof it, including Woody Allen's Bananas and Love and Death, Australia, Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker's Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult ( though actually a parody of The Untouchables ), Soviet-Polish comedy Deja Vu, Jacob Tierney's The Trotsky and the Italian comedy Il secondo tragico Fantozzi.

In particular there is a running gag suggesting that French and Saunders are unable to accurately affect accents ; this first appeared in their spoof of Gone with the Wind when they break their character in the middle of an elaborate and expensive parody to argue about the authenticity of their Southern accent.

* In the spoof film Date Movie ( 2006 ), Mr. Jinxers is a parody of his Meet the Parents counterpart.

SCTV parody shows included Natalie Wingneck, a Tarzan-style spoof in which Martin played a girl raised by geese after her family died in a plane crash.

*" Liberal and PC " a spoof of the " Get a Mac " ad, Park plays a Liberal ( parody of the Mac ) and Lauzon plays a " PC " ( Progressive Conservative ) and follows the outline of the Mac ad.

Originally shown as a comedy alternative to the BBC Nine O ' Clock News on BBC 1, it featured satirical sketches on current news stories and popular culture, as well as parody songs, comedy sketches, re-edited videos, and spoof television formats.

Later he became so well known for his clerical parody that, in the 1975 The Goodies ' episode " Wacky Wales ", a " team of Derek Nimmos " played in a spoof " Ecclesiastical Rugby Sevens " competition.

" Eric Idle's Beatles spoof, The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash, features an album cover parody of Magical Mystery Tour in which the song Strawberry Fields Forever is renamed " W. C. Fields Forever.

" The parody was itself partly parodied when Mitchel Torok recorded " All Over Again, Again " for Columbia Records in mid-March 1959 but billed it as " The Great Pretender ," as a spoof on the recent Sun Records recordings of Johnny Cash.

The first Totally Tasteless Video segment was a parody of movie coming attraction trailers, followed by a spoof on the TV series Doogie Howser.

The concert features a wide selection of their songs, and incorporates humor throughout the show using skits and videos that often parody or spoof popular culture.

* Repossessed ( film ), a parody / spoof film from 1991 starring Leslie Nielsen

* Tarvuism, a spoof religion that British comedians Peter Serafinowicz and Robert Popper are working on for TV channel, Adult Swim, that will parody instructional religious videos such as those of Scientologists and Christians.

* In the November 27th, 2011 Family Guy episode Amish Guy, a spoof of National Lampoon's Vacation final rollercoaster shot, then it goes on to parody its end credit sequence with " Dancin ' Across the USA " being played by Lindsey Buckingham.

" His other SNL sketches range from a black-and-white Citizen Kane parody to a Star Trek spoof that was a tour-de-force for Belushi.

The animated spoof Team America: World Police ( 2004 ) includes a song parody in which Bay is referred to as a bad director.

In a dream sequence of Fresh Prince of Bel Air Kopell made a parody cameo of himself as an actor who played a ship's doctor so many times he offers to perform an operation for real, while in a 1994 episode of Saturday Night Live he appeared as " Doc " during a Love Boat-themed spoof of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

The rather generic-sounding " chocolate cookies with white stuff in between " " sponsored " the science-fiction spoof Lawrence Fechtenberger, Interstellar Officer Candidate ( a direct parody of " Tom Corbett, Space Cadet "), and " Gerstmeyer's Puppy Kibbles, the dog food guaranteed to turn any pet into a vicious man-killer " " sponsored " the police-drama spoof Squad Car 119.

By the time Army of Darkness turns into a retread of Jason and the Argonauts, featuring an army of fighting skeletons, the film has fallen into a ditch between parody and spectacle ".

The 1989 film UHF featured a " Weird Al " Yankovic parody music video, " Money for Nothing / Beverly Hillbillies *," combining " The Ballad of Jed Clampett " and Dire Straits ' " Money for Nothing.

However, his next films, The Great Dictator ( 1940 ), a parody on Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini that ended in a dramatic speech criticising the blind following patriotic nationalism, and Monsieur Verdoux ( 1947 ), which criticised war and capitalism, as well as his first European film A King in New York ( 1957 ), which ridiculed the U. S. House Un-American Activities Committee, were more clearly political and caused controversy.

* John Woo directed a parody film of Chaplin's " The Kid " called Hua ji shi dai ( 1981 ), also known as " Laughing Times.

The clichés of film noir have inspired parody since the mid-1940s.

It was not until February 1973 that The New York Times first used the term, describing how the " moods and tensions " in the British private-eye parody Pulp ( 1972 film ) | Pulp came " out of the collective depths of the film noir ".

The 1982 Steve Martin comedy Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid was shot in black-and-white as a parody of a 1940s film noir and included footage of actors from the film-noir era such as Humphrey Bogart, Burt Lancaster, and others spliced in with the modern actors.

Clokey's first animated film was a 1953 three-minute student film called Gumbasia, a surreal montage of moving and expanding lumps of clay set to music in a parody of Disney's Fantasia.

" The Curtain Dress ", from the Carol Burnett Show worn in the Gone with the Wind ( film ) | Gone with the Wind ( film ) parody, " Went with the Wind " ( 1976 ).

Fickman also worked on the musical Reefer Madness, a parody of the anti-marijuana propaganda film of the same name which was turned into a feature film on Showtime.

) In this film, a movie director played by Ichikawa is shooting Kuroi Hyaku-ichi-nin no Onna ( a hundred and one dark women ), a parody of Ten Dark Women.

The film is a parody retelling the events of the Watergate scandal which lead to the resignation of U. S. president Richard Nixon.

French Marxist film makers, such as Jean-Luc Godard, would employ radical editing and choice of subject matter, as well as subversive parody, to heighten class consciousness and promote Marxist ideas.

* In the Not The Nine O ' Clock News sketch on the new film The Life of Christ ( itself a reference to Python's 1979 Life of Brian ), the Bishop ( Rowan Atkinson ) who is being harangued for this parody of Pythonism professes himself surprised at the furor, saying: " Well, I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition.

Mad has since relaxed its requirements, and while the U. S. version still eschews overt profanity, the magazine generally poses no objections to more provocative content such as the Swedish edition's 1999 parody of the film Fucking Åmål.

The film is a parody of B-movie, science fiction and horror films of the late 1940s through early 1970s.

Fox re-released it around college campuses on a double-bill with another rock music film parody, Brian De Palma's Phantom of the Paradise, but again it drew small audiences.

In film, Team America: World Police includes a character who plays a lead role in Lease, a Broadway musical parody of Rent ; the finale song is " Everyone has AIDS !";.

With his brother Ivan Raimi ( and crediting himself as Celia Abrams ), Sam Raimi also wrote Easy Wheels ( 1989 ), a parody of the Outlaw biker film genre.