Parodies

The parody is a form of Humor which uses the framework, the characters, the expressions and the operation of an existing and known work of the public concerned. The parody thus indicates a literary work or artistic which transforms a preexistent work in a comic, ludic or satirical way. The laughter occurs because of the shift between this work and what the actors or authors make. It can be employed with a burlesque or satirical intention. The parody also applies to other fields like the Musique.

Examples

on television

  • Puppets of information, parody of information and parodies in general.
  • Unknown the, parodies various, especially of television programs (cartoons, clips, documentary, sporting emissions, series, publicities, etc)
  • Null the in particular parodied publicities
  • Téléchat, emission for child who parodied tv news and pubs.
  • Léguman, series diffused in this same emission and which parodied the Sentai Japanese .
  • Us C Us, group of comic French whose emission on France 3 parodied various series and emissions.
  • the Heart has its reasons parody the American soaps
  • Parodies on ground emission which specialized in doublings of film extracts, but parodied also videos clip and publicities.

With the cinema

Certain films also use the winks with films, to which they can pay homage or not.

in literature

See also: Parody (literature)

(Of the Greek parodied = imitation bouffonne of a poetic song) At the beginning, during comic of the tragedy, then, work which ridicules a known serious model, a given literary current or a certain manner of writing, by accentuating their characteristics sets of themes or formal. It can have comic aimings, but most of the time, it takes care of a polemical dimension because it marks a rupture with works and currents which are felt as exceeded. E.g.: The Don Quichotte parody tales of chivalry, and the Gargantua and Pantagruel of Rabelais, the scholastic.

on Internet

  • Uncyclopedia, parody of Wikipedia
  • encyclopedic Pastiches of articles on Wikipédia which they come from the imagination of the Net surfers or the popular inventions like the dahu.
  • Martine cover generator , site proposing of the parodies of covers of the series of illustrated books Martine (closed on November 18th, 2007) .

In the written press

  • Stakes, parody of publications to informative and commercial aiming

in songs

(See the page musical Parodist) The practice in the current parodies is to take again a song with success of the moment and to change them the words for a subject of topicality.
  • Bidochons: They made parodies of songs of the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Sex Pistols, of Téléphone…
  • Unknown the, through their songs also, made fun of the groups of Rock and variety.
  • Nettoyage Ethnik carried out several parodies of known songs. Let us note that of Noir Desire a man in a hurry and become a poor nut , making fun of Bertrand Cantat, her political commitments and of course of the business Marie Trintignant.
  • the 6/9, the team which animates the morning the radio NRJ, made many parodies of tubes passing themselves on the radio (whose simple the hen house in 2004 came to be placed in second place of the sales behind the original, Dragostea DIN Tei of the group O-Zone ).
  • IGO-Parodies parody of the popular songs. It is very active in the medium of radio operator in Quebec.
  • Sebastien Cauet, the radio presenter carried out some parodies of songs (whose abrasive Zidane it will mark , Re-parodied in its turn in Zidane it struck , after the final of the World cup 2006, by the persons in charge of the label Plage Records who made of it the unexpected tube of the summer 2006)
  • Choum is a Net surfer recognized for his parodies, often vulgar.
  • the studio Paral & Piped is currently one of most active in the sector of the musical parody.
  • Fatal Bazooka parody the Rap in general.

See too

Simple: Parody

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