(v. t.) To ridicule, or to make ludicrous by grotesque representation in action or in language.
(v. i.) To employ burlesque.
(a.) Tending to excite laughter or contempt by extravagant images, or by a contrast between the subject and the manner of treating it, as when a trifling subject is treated with mock gravity; jocular; ironical.
(n.) An ironical or satirical composition intended to excite laughter, or to ridicule anything.
(n.) A ludicrous imitation; a caricature; a travesty; a gross perversion.
Example Sentences:
(1) If you want to watch cabaret’s great and good consuming one too many glasses of prosecco, Saturday night at the Soho Burlesque Club is the place to go.
(2) The two identities coexist as "two hearts beating in my chest", and have different back-stories: while Neuwirth was born in the Austrian town of Gmunden, Conchita comes from the mountains of Colombia and has a fictional husband, burlesque artist Jacques Patriaque ("a fairytale – he's actually a close friend of mine").
(3) Are we really asking standups to compete with burlesque dancers and rock music?
(4) Sure, the season’s story, which focuses on Vanessa Ives’s struggle to decode the “memoirs of the devil” and fight a hissing viper pit of Lucifer’s witches, may be pure pulp burlesque, but that’s just the first layer of Penny Dreadful’s charm.
(5) • workersplaytime.net Chosen by Sink the Pink co-founders, Glynfamous (Glyn Fussell) and Amy Zing (Amy Redmond) Soho Burlesque Club Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Soho Burlesque Club Soho Burlesque Club – at the Hippodrome Casino – is a properly late-night cabaret experience.
(6) That gin-obsessed burlesque and cupcake fanatic you've secretly had your eye on?
(7) I think they had some kind of burlesque-type dancing on a stage, but it was mainly just 90s house, techno and people dancing, in drag.
(8) Faena has seven buildings under construction, including an arts centre, a luxury hotel and burlesque theatre designed by film director Baz Luhrmann to invoke the spirit of a Latino Great Gatsby.
(9) There will be burlesque workshops for adults, the Magnificent Insect Circus Museum and five performances of Sideshow Illusions featuring a headless lady.
(10) Compered by the ventriloquist and standup comedian, it is billed as a mix of cabaret, burlesque, magic, musical comedy and circus performance.
(11) It saw the first night of his most successful play, The Love Of Four Colonels, a cold war satirical burlesque in which Russia, America, Britain and France partition the land in which the Sleeping Beauty lies.
(12) Union Music, Lewes Running a burlesque boutique in a Sussex market town wasn't enough of a challenge for Stevie Freeman.
(13) I once stayed out drinking there with burlesque superstar Dirty Martini until the early hours of the morning.
(14) The owners Steve and Hannah book an eclectic mix of music, burlesque and comedy and you can guarantee something off the wall will be on.
(15) It was the exact opposite, weaving puppets and games around set pieces – which included a rap about going for a smear test and a burlesque act where slogans about equal pay were all that was revealed.
(16) This year, Cotillard takes a belt-and-braces approach: she's an Ellis Island burlesque dancer in James Gray's 1920s-set The Immigrant , as well as a moll in 70s Brooklyn in Blood Ties (scripted by Gray, shot by her husband, Guillaume Canet).
(17) Cher's right about Burlesque – an overlong potboiler that also starred Christina Aguilera, it wasn't even camp enough to be fun.
(18) Cypriot halloumi + Shed Seven + burlesque.” In the days approaching The Thick of It screening I smugly congratulated myself on my precognitive programming genius.
(19) In the comedy programme, the majority of acclaimed shows were by women, including the visiting American standup Tig Notaro, British standup and actor Sara Pascoe, and the extraordinary Adrienne Truscott, one-half of the New York burlesque double-act The Wau Wau Sisters.
(20) But the regulator noted that ITV "regretted that some viewers were taken aback by the performance, but it believed that it took appropriate steps to minimise potential offence", and said that because Aguilera's routine was based on her film Burlesque that the costumes had to be seen "in context".
Lampoon
Definition:
(n.) A personal satire in writing; usually, malicious and abusive censure written only to reproach and distress.
(v. t.) To subject to abusive ridicule expressed in writing; to make the subject of a lampoon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Britain’s troubled relationship with the EU has provided Boris Johnson with nothing but fun since he first made his name lampooning the federalist ambitions of Jacques Delors as the Daily Telegraph’s Brussels correspondent in the early 1990s .
(2) Born in Chicago, Ramis worked as a teacher and journalist before teaming up with comedians John Belushi and Bill Murray for the wildly successful National Lampoon Radio Hour in 1973.
(3) As the debate reached its conclusion, Stockwood, dressed grandly in a purple cassock and pompously fondling his crucifix in a way that was devastatingly lampooned by Rowan Atkinson a week later on a Not the Nine O'Clock News sketch, delivered his parting shot of, "You'll get your 30 pieces of silver."
(4) Scalia was subsequently lampooned in a cartoon segment of Stewart’s The Daily Show titled “The Human Dissentipede.” Scalia was a champion of originalism, which he later called textualism: the approach to constitutional interpretation that looks to the meaning of words and concepts as they were understood by America’s founding fathers in the context of the 18th century.
(5) At times the tightly chaperoned tour already felt as if National Lampoon’s Cuban Vacation had been scripted by over-earnest communist officials.
(6) The Conservatives last week turned to M&C Saatchi to reinvigorate their election campaign after two much- lampooned and spoofed efforts, while the launch of a guerrilla ad campaign, positioning Labour and the Tories as failed political facsimiles, is thought to have helped the Lib Dems.
(7) That Psy is promoting upmarket frocks and luxury fridges is somewhat ironic, considering Gangnam Style's lampooning of the rampant consumerism that pervades what has been described as South Korea's Beverly Hills.
(8) Samuel Butler lampooned this stance in his classic satire, Erewhon , describing a culture who imprisoned the sick for the crime of not being well.
(9) A few years later, Furth was in another western, Mel Brooks' lampoon Blazing Saddles (1974), as one of the many townsfolk called Johnson - his name being Van Johnson.
(10) Much of his work – including National Lampoon's Animal House (1978), Meatballs (1979) and Ghostbusters (1984), all of which he co-wrote, and Caddyshack (1980), which he co-wrote and directed – changed the course of US film comedy, even if the prudish might argue that it was not for the better.
(11) When his own backbenchers were joined by a much-lampooned Tory, Sir Tufton Beamish, Wilson decided to outflank them all by making his announcement.
(12) Cameron, who had to endure the rare experience of negative headlines lampooning him as a lightweight, held his nerve as the Tories set the political weather at their conference.
(13) In National Lampoon's Vacation (1983), Ramis brought his steady hand to an increasingly hysterical road movie about a family on the way to a theme-park holiday.
(14) "What is happening now is a military coup," he bellowed shortly after entering the courtroom, in the hectoring tone that Egyptians came to lampoon during his year-long presidency.
(15) Can the new host deliver a similarly potent mix of smart and silly political lampooning ?
(16) The Greek team, lampooned in cartoons in the foreign press including one showing them in a kit sporting a German eagle, as if sponsored by Germany, were more circumspect.
(17) The crew later branched out into film with National Lampoon's Animal House in 1978.
(18) "His films have lampooned the great and the dictators, raised up the common man against the rich," the paper said.
(19) If not, Christie is a lying thug himself.... Christie’s presidential ambitions are all but kaput, as he will be lambasted and lampooned as a man of low character and horrible judgment — again viewing him in the most favorable way."
(20) This Kim is not his father, the much lampooned skinny figure in a badly-cut Mao suit with weird hair and a dose of gout.