Anaximenes was hostile to Theopompus, whom he sought to discredit with a libelous parody, Trikaranos, published in Theopompus ' style and under his name, attacking Athens, Sparta, and Thebes.

Kmoch was in fact a great admirer of Nimzowitsch, and the subject of the parody himself was amused at the effort.

Capp was just as likely to parody himself ; his self-caricature made frequent, tongue-in-cheek appearances in Li ' l Abner.

The gag was often at his own expense, as in the above 1951 sequence showing Capp's interaction with " fans " ( see excerpt ), or in his 1955 Disneyland parody, " Hal Yappland.

Other highlights of that decade included the 1942 debut of Fearless Fosdick as Abner's " ideel " ( hero ); the 1946 Lena the Hyena Contest, in which a hideous Lower Slobbovian gal was ultimately revealed in the harrowing winning entry ( as judged by Frank Sinatra, Boris Karloff and Salvador Dalí ) drawn by noted cartoonist Basil Wolverton ; and an ill-fated Sunday parody of Gone With the Wind that aroused anger and legal threats from author Margaret Mitchell, and led to a printed apology within the strip.

* Another parody was used on the episode of Saturday Night Live William Shatner hosted in 1986, called " Ollie North, The Mute Marine.

Chaplin made 14 films for Essanay, the last of which was a parody of Carmen named Burlesque on Carmen ( 1916 ).

After quarterback Jay Cutler came down with an injury in 2011, where the Bears lost 5 straight games and was knocked out of playoff contention, his absence was bemoaned in a song parodying the hit Baby Come Back as a parody called Cutty Come Back.

The value of the ColecoVision as a 1980s pop culture icon was discussed on VH1's I Love The 80's Strikes Back .< ref name =" Ilove80s "> Several television series have aired episodes that reference or parody the console: South Park, Family Guy and Everybody Hates Chris.

Through the 1980s and 1990s, Jones was painting cartoon and parody art, sold through animation galleries by his daughter's company, Linda Jones Enterprises.

President King, the leader of Walden College, was originally intended as a parody of Kingman Brewster, President of Yale, but all that remains of that is a certain physical resemblance.

One long-running feature of the show was " Captain Fantastic ", featuring a parody superhero ( Jason ) in improbable, even macabre adventures against villainess Mrs. Black ( Coffey ).

The most notable example of these was Henry Fielding's Shamela ( 1741 ), written as a parody of Pamela.

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 dim witted, egotistical host Mike Moore was a parody of current television hosts and journalists.

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.

MacFarlane has said that Lucasfilm was extremely helpful when the Family Guy crew wanted to parody their works.

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.

According to Murphy ’ s parody, when the television cameras were turned off, the sweet Gumby reverted to his true self: a cigar chomping, irascible celebrity who was highly demanding of the production executives.

The exaggerated walk, with one hand on the small of his back and his torso bent almost 90 degrees at the waist was a parody of a fad from the 1880s and 1890s.

Following retirement from professional football, he developed a career in the media, initially on BBC Radio 5 Live and as a football pundit before replacing Des Lynam as the BBC's anchorman for football coverage, including their flagship football television programme Match of the Day, and as a team captain on the acerbic sports game show, They Think It's All Over from 1995 to 2003, where he was heavily ( though affectionately ) ridiculed for being a " goal hanger ", described as " lethal from twelve inches " – a parody of Lineker's short-range scoring prowess.

A federal appeals court denied the plaintiffs an injunction ( Suntrust v. Houghton Mifflin ) against publication on the basis that the book was parody and therefore protected by the First Amendment.

Mr. Newman is listed as a comedian, so it is probable that this version was the first parody of the original Gospel song.

* True Story, written by Lucian of Samosata in the 2nd century AD, is a parody of the Odyssey describing a journey beyond the Pillars of Hercules and to the moon.

This modern meaning of the term should not be confused with the traditional ( pre-1970s ) meaning of " fan fiction " within the community of fandom, where the term meant original or parody fiction written by fans and published in fanzines, often with members of fandom as characters therein (" faan fiction ").

Contemporary Scottish poet Marie Marshall has written a semi-serious ballad in parody of 19c neo-medievalism " How Finn McCool became Lord of Tara ".

A series of children's books, written by Mike Thaler and Jared Lee, parody the film.

All You Need is Cash, a 1978 American-British mockumentary film written and directed by Eric Idle, featured the satirical history of the The Beatles | Beatles parody " The Rutles ".

Some claim that Mother Goose rhymes were originally written to parody the aristocracy while appearing to be nothing more than nonsense nursery rhymes.

* David Foubert, Jason King Jones, and Jay Leibowitz have written a parody of this routine in the style of William Shakespeare entitled Who Doth Inhabit The Primary Position.

In the Middle Ages as part of the conflicts with Christians, a satirical parody of the Christian gospels called the Toledot Yeshu was written by the Jews, perhaps as a tool for warding off conversions to Christianity.

Both tune and elements of the lyrics were adapted in the controversial parody " Barack the Magic Negro ", written and recorded by Paul Shanklin for Rush Limbaugh's radio program, after the term was first applied to then presidential candidate Obama by movie and culture critic, David Ehrenstein, in a Los Angeles Times op ed column of March 19, 2007.

Another class of variations, designed for written rather than oral transmission, employs parody by pretending to have notable individuals or institutions give characteristic answers to the question posed by the riddle.

Almost 60 masses have survived complete ; most of them are parody masses based on secular works written by himself or other composers.

Goodnight Keith Moon, written by Bruce Worden and Clare Cross, is a parody based on the death of The Who drummer, Keith Moon.

It has a parody called Shite's Unoriginal Miscellany, written by " A.

Seven parody entries, written by contributors to the 1980 edition, and full of musical puns and dictionary in-jokes, were published in the February 1981 issue of The Musical Times ( which was also edited by Stanley Sadie at the time ).

In November 2006 Jackanory returned with comedian John Sessions as the revived programme's first narrator reading The Lord of the Rings parody Muddle Earth, written by Paul Stewart ( and illustrator Chris Riddell ).

Some of these Latin parody works are found in the medieval Latin collection of poetry, Carmina Burana, written around 1230.

One song he composed has been published in Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery ( CACM ) (" The Telnet Song ," April 1984, a parody of the behavior of a series of PDP-10 TELNET implementations written by Mark Crispin ).

The current edition has removed most of the parody aspects, and contains game mechanics written from scratch in order to avoid any intellectual property problems.

* Concerto for Horn and Hardart is a classical music parody written by Peter Schickele, one of many which he attributes to the fictional composer P. D. Q.

Several novels have been written about the Roswell incident, including Whitley Strieber's Majestic ( 1989 ), Kevin D. Randle's Operation Roswell ( 2004 ), and Sonny Whitelaw's Stargate SG-1: Roswell ( 2007 ), The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex and Gotcha Gas: Debacle Near Roswell ( 2011 ), an historical parody by Banak and Weimer.

The original strip, originated by Dave Donaldson, written by Steve Bright and mostly drawn by John Geering until his death in 1999, is essentially a parody of Superman with shades of Captain Marvel and his British twin, Marvelman and occasionally other Silver Age characters, while also combining comic slapstick with a heavy dose of eccentric British humour similar to Alan Moore's contemporary work on Captain Britain.

* The main theme of this movie, the song " Sing As We Go " ( written by Harry Parr Davies ), was used by the comedy group Monty Python in a parody song called " Sit on My Face " and is one of two signature songs of The Kampen Janitsjarorkester Symphonic Band ( The Kampen Band ) of Oslo Norway.

The sketches often involved complex word-play, much of it written by Barker, who also liked to parody officialdom and establishment figures, as well as eccentrics.

Often, episodes are written doing a parody of stereotypical episodes on regular sitcoms ( e. g. The son showing an interest in women, the Dad being reconnected with an old passion, the Mother temporarily leaving after a fight, etc.