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send up

verb as in heighten

verb as in lampoon

verb as in take off

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On the comedy side, the most honors went to the Apple TV+ Hollywood send-up “The Studio,” with four wins during the telecast, including outstanding comedy series.

A camp send-up of old-school issue-of-the-week TV movies?

A perfectly executed send-up of the loud, hyper, over-the-top TV ads that have driven generations of kiddos to beg their parents to purchase hunks of plastic shaped like muscular heroes and ferocious monsters.

Jillian Jacobs and Chris Roach’s script is variously a romantic comedy, a send-up of fine dining and a lens into abusive relationships.

But the funny kicked up a notch when Adam Driver in a hot dog costume and Maya Rudolph as a needle of heroin launched into a send-up of “Fame.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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