Thesaurus / lampoon
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Joe Toplyn broke into comedy in the 1980s, when a friend from the Harvard Lampoon tipped him off that a writing job was opening up at David Letterman’s late-night show.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CAN NOW CRAFT ORIGINAL JOKES—AND THAT’S NO LAUGHING MATTERCORINNE PURTILLJANUARY 4, 2022TIMEThe idea was for Bennifer to perform a cheeky lampoon of their own personas — but the parody didn’t land.
THE JENNIFER LOPEZ-BEN AFFLECK RECOUPLING IS THE GREATEST GOSSIP STORY WE’VE HAD IN YEARSCONSTANCE GRADYAUGUST 24, 2021VOXI called Liszt's article a criticism, but "lampoon" or "libel" would have been a more appropriate designation.
FREDERICK CHOPIN AS A MAN AND MUSICIANFREDERICK NIECKSLampoon itself would disdain to speak ill of him of whom no man speaks well.
OBITER DICTAAUGUSTINE BIRRELLIn a few weeks that amusing lampoon on the scholars and commentators of the time had run through four editions.
THE ANGLO-FRENCH ENTENTE IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURYCHARLES BASTIDEI dined with Mr. Addison, and Jervas the painter, at Addison's country place; and then came home, and writ more to my lampoon.
THE JOURNAL TO STELLAJONATHAN SWIFTI have almost finished my lampoon, and will print it for revenge on a certain great person.
THE JOURNAL TO STELLAJONATHAN SWIFTA mug or a jug with an inscription may tell a story of popular party feeling as pointedly as a broadsheet or a political lampoon.
CHATS ON OLD EARTHENWAREARTHUR HAYDENSquib, skwib, n. a paper tube filled with combustibles, thrown up into the air burning and bursting: a petty lampoon.
CHAMBERS'S TWENTIETH CENTURY DICTIONARY (PART 4 OF 4: S-Z AND SUPPLEMENTS)VARIOUSIn the next year, 424, Aristophanes produced the Knights, the most violent political lampoon in literature.
AUTHORS OF GREECET. W. LUMBWORDS RELATED TO LAMPOON
- banter
- caricature
- cartoon
- chaff
- deride
- expose
- fleer
- gibe
- haze
- humiliate
- jape
- jeer
- jest
- jive
- jolly
- josh
- kid
- lampoon
- laugh at
- make a fool of
- make a game of
- make a laughingstock
- make fun of
- mimic
- mock
- needle
- pan
- parody
- poke fun at
- pooh-pooh
- pull one's leg
- put down
- quiz
- rag
- rail at
- rally
- razz
- rib
- ride
- roast
- run down
- satirize
- scoff
- scorn
- scout
- send up
- show up
- sneer
- take off
- taunt
- travesty
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