There are often invitations for readers to submit pictures, such as the request for examples of " Insincere Smiles ", whereby people sent in pictures cut from newspapers and brochures of celebrities and politicians caught smiling in a manner which looks utterly insincere and forced ( Tony Blair featured at least twice ).

Zombie Dave-A reanimated corpse who appeared on the news page and punctuated the items with comments written in the manner of the shambling dead.

* Dave-A look-alike fills in for the President

* Apple Dave-A very strange rock star with the head of an apple.

Some examples of the genre include the 1978 Christmas tape from staff at Thames Television which included an especially contrived innuendo-laden edition of the children's show Rainbow and a 1979 Christmas tape from employees of Yorkshire Television which included a send-up of the popular ITV quiz 3-2-1, an adaptation of a popular television commercial of the time from the Italian car manufacturer Fiat and comments about YTV management following the strike which had put the network off the air a few months previously.

On another occasion, in a send-up of the Honours List, Hatch announces that a particular person has been made an earl, and also has been awarded the OBE ; he therefore becomes an earlobe.

) ( 1962 ), playing sadistic Lieutenant Scott-Padget, co-starring Sir Alec Guinness ; I Could Go On Singing ( 1963 ), co-starring Judy Garland in her final screen role ; Hot Enough for June, ( aka " Agent 8¾ ") ( 1964 ), a James Bond-type spy spoof co-starring Robert Morley ; Modesty Blaise ( 1966 ), a campy spy send-up playing archvillain Gabriel opposite Monica Vitti and Terence Stamp and directed by Joseph Losey ; The Fixer ( 1968 ), based on Bernard Malamud's novel, co-starring Alan Bates ; Sebastian ( 1968 ), as Sebastian, a mathematician working on code decryption, who falls in love with Susannah York, a decrypter in the all-female decoding office he heads for British Intelligence, also co-starring Sir John Gielgud, and Lilli Palmer, co-produced by Michael Powell ; Oh!

The episode, occurring to the wealthy Steinbeck in an enormously well-equipped and self-contained camper, is a send-up of similar desperate scenes in The Grapes of Wrath ; but the episode seemed to mean something beyond comedy to the author anyway.

Rubnitz's film captures the event's early improvised, rock and roll atmosphere ; early years of Wigstock often made direct reference to Woodstock ( including performance artist John Kelly's send-up of Joni Mitchell and her song " Woodstock "), and Rubnitz's film mimics aspects of the famous Woodstock documentary.

Recurring characters include Chainsawsuit, a man with a series of chainsaws strapped to his body for self-defense against zombies ; Famous Chef, a caricature of Gordon Ramsay ; Lazy Cat, an ultraviolent send-up of Garfield ; Two Cops, a police officer who was accidentally enrolled in the academy twice and is regarded by all characters as two separate people ; H. P. Wuvcraft, a cuddlier version of Lovecraft ; master pickup artist Huntyr Chase ; and Straub himself, who appears in some autobiographical comics.

Schikaneder and his colleague then stepped over the line, initiating a production of Beaumarchais ' then-scandalous send-up of the aristocracy, The Marriage of Figaro.

Three of the four musicians who had created the soundtrack for the 1978 film — Innes, Halsey and Fataar — reunited in 1996 and recorded a second album, Archaeology, a send-up of The Beatles Anthology albums.

* In an episode of Gilligan's Island broadcast 3 October 1966, Phil Silvers performed a memorable send-up of Polonius ' " Neither a borrower nor a lender be " speech in the role of a producer who appears on the island and stages a musical version of Hamlet with the castaways.

Harry Hoo ( Joey Forman ) is a Hawaiian detective from Honolulu, who is depicted as a send-up of the fictional detective Charlie Chan.

With the exception of some " Beatle "- wigged skeletons, who are inserted as a send-up of the era's pop bands, Mad Monster Party features none of the characters which share an historical association with the October 31st tradition.

He bumps into Alpine, who confuses the boy with, " Mi mi mi mi ," noises, in a send-up of the poor animation of characters ' speaking mouths.

In a send-up of The Wizard of Oz, many characters are revealed to be much the opposite of what they appeared to be for the bulk of the film: the jock-like shop instructor is really the school's French teacher, the stuck-up would-be prom queen is actually the school nerd ( who is given the crown by Toby after she wakes up, due to her kind nature ), the two handicapped kids turn out to be non-crippled, and a local ROTC cadet is a hippie.

* Here's Cooking at You: A send-up of Julia Child's cooking shows, with Judy Graubart playing " Julia Grown-Up ".

The Gilbert and Sullivan operetta Patience pokes fun at the Aesthetic movement, and the lead character of Reginald Bunthorne is often identified as a send-up of Oscar Wilde, though Bunthorne is more likely an amalgam of several prominent artists, writers, and Aesthetic figures.

As of 2006, this series stands at the Eastern Europe send-up of Molvanîa: A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry, parody of Southeast Asian destinations Phaic Tăn: Sunstroke on a Shoestring and Central American send up San Sombrèro: A Land of Carnivals, Cocktails and Coups.

His transformation from singer to comedian was a gradual one, starting with his rendition of Green Green Grass of Home, straight at first, but ultimately a hilarious send-up of Tom Jones, which marked the start of the Paul Shane act.

The book appeared at the height of the fictional spy mania and, as a send-up of the whole business, was an immediate success.

His first show, " And Still the Villain Pursued Her ," poked fun at melodramas, while the second, " Kaleidoscope ," was a send-up of college life.

When a crooked car dealer on another episode was perceived by real-life Los Angeles-area car salesman Cal Worthington as being a send-up of him, he sued the studio ( Hanna-Barbera ), the sponsors ( Chevrolet ) and the five NBC-owned stations that carried the show Sundays at 10. 30 p. m. EST.

In Block's words, " it is at once a solid crime novel and a fierce send-up of modern art while constituting perhaps the longest shaggy dog story ever told.

* Won Best Supporting Actress Award for her work in the comedy sci-fi send-up " Screech of the Decapitated " at the 2005 B-Movie Awards.

" The Albuquerque Journal describes the MindHead organization " a rather thinly veiled but nevertheless amusing blast at Scientology ," and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram characterizes it as an " organization that comes across as a thinly veiled send-up of Scientology.

A frequent feature of Update during this time was " Point / Counterpoint ", a send-up of the then-current 60 Minutes segment of the same name with James J. Kilpatrick and Shana Alexander.

In 1989, Short headlined another one-hour comedy special, this time for HBO, I, Martin Short, Goes Hollywood, Short's classic send-up of all things Hollywood.

Recently Mark completed one of his father ’ s unfinished works, The Lizard of Oz, a send-up of The Wizard of Oz, starring Cheech Wizard one more time.

The song was a send-up of " The Ballad of the Green Berets ", chronicling the adventures of a draft dodger.

Muggeridge and the Bishop had arrived 15 minutes late to see a screening of the picture prior to the debate, missing the establishing scenes demonstrating that Brian and Jesus were two different characters, and hence contended that it was a send-up of Christ himself.

The first such season-ender on U. S. TV was in the comedy send-up of soap operas Soap in 1978.

Tomlin then starred in the 1981 science fiction comedy The Incredible Shrinking Woman, a send-up of consumerism, and was the sickly heiress in the comedy All of Me opposite Steve Martin.

The new musical essentially a send-up of the purported kitsch aspects of the original show, and again, was successful during both a tour and a West End run in 1995 and 1997.

( 2009 ), a mock-Lacanian tribute to Fred Wah, and Bardy Google ( 2010 ), part of which was a Dunciad-like send-up of recent Canadian criticism, and the limited edition visual poetry book, Canonical Canadian Literature ( 2011 ).

The most frequently cited sketch was the 1976 parody " Went with the Wind ", a send-up of the classic 1939 movie Gone with the Wind.

It was an absolutely brilliant, deadpan send-up of adventure comics, but with a very edgy modernist kind of approach.

This was a joint send-up of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and The Professionals TV show, with Ronnie Corbett playing a bungling version of Martin Shaw's Doyle.

The play, a " farcical send-up of bourgeois snobbery and conformity " was directed by Barry Edelstein and featured Cheryl Lynn Bowers and Byron Jennings as Louise and Theo Maske.

Carvey's Bush impersonation was SNL's most sophisticated yet, and together with Hartman's hilarious send-up of President Ronald Reagan, they allowed for the most fruitful and successful period of political parody on SNL.

In the end, the matter died without legal action, and the storyline of the film was changed to be a send-up of the genre rather than Casablanca specifically.

Polyester was a send-up of “ women ’ s pictures ,” an exploitative genre of film that was popular from the 1950-60s and typically featured bored, unfulfilled, or otherwise troubled women, usually middle-aged suburban housewives, finding release or escape through the arrival of a handsome younger man.

This was a joint send-up of The Professionals and the Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy TV drama, with Ronnie Barker playing George Smiley along the lines of Alec Guinness ' portrayal in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.

Steve Gerber proposed a Vertigo version of the Inferior Five as a send-up of the " dark ' n ' gritty " comics of the period, but this was rejected.

Stanshall's primary contribution was to shape " Death Cab For Cutie " as a send-up of Elvis Presley, and he sang it as such.

Alan Menken composed the music for the song, which was an affectionate send-up of 1940s Irving Berlin songs.