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The most popular jokes these days tend to lampoon the strong, rather than the weak.
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It's easy to lampoon some of it now, but his best songs remain classics of the era.
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And that makes them easier to lampoon than their Labour predecessors, he says.
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Badham and Kouf try to lampoon retro notions of female domesticity and male know-how, but end up exploiting them.
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Usually in this segment, I try to call out horrible metaphors, lampoon bizarre choices and decry laziness.
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The joy of Menckenism is that it frees practitioners to lampoon the folly of everything without ever having to defend anything.
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Patterson even manages to gently lampoon wheatgrass and not activate the gag reflex.
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The second-best movie, the 1983 hit Trading Places, uses humor to lampoon the way we sometimes value money more than we do people.
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But they thought that their shtick was to lampoon country music.
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This fall, Lindland plans to run ads in the Harvard Lampoon.
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Daytime TV is thought to be too easy to lampoon.
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In 1966, Wood was named the Harvard Lampoon's Worst Actress of the Year, but was deemed "a good sport" by the university paper when she unexpectedly turned up to collect it.
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The aim was to lampoon the suggestibility of public figures willing to repeat, with feeling, any nonsense they are told, the bogus gravity of much current-affairs television, the hypocritical voyeurism of media coverage of sex and crime, and a lot else besides.
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