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BSA103 Five examples of Parodies





BSA103

Five examples of parodies.

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Blazing Saddles (1974) parodies Western movies but puts a twist on it making the hero (the sheriff) a black man which, especially considering the year it was made in, takes the piss out of the generic western movies by taking the piss out of the typical character tropes, plot lines and film techniques that were found in many of the classic western films.

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Waterford Whispers, an online satire Newspaper, publishes parody articles. They use typically dark, sarcastic humour to poke fun at current affairs, typical everyday people and also clickbait and celebrity gossip articles that are found on the internet.

Macklemore - Thrift Shop PARODY! Key of Awesome #69 - YouTube
The Key of Awesome are a youtube channel that they post parodies of songs on. Their parodies are made for the humour that is quite absurd in most of the clips or else it is used to poke fun at the artist who wrote the song or to poke fun at the meaning behind the original song.

Honest Trailers - The Lord of the Rings - YouTube
Honest trailers make parodies of movies by making parody trailers of those movies. They are funny and pay particular attention to plot or character flaws in the movie.

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Fifty Shades of Chicken by FL Fowler is a chicken cookbook but written in a similar style to an erotic BDSM novel like Fifty Shades Of Grey.
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