send-ups

It spawned a whole series of send-ups like this one.

Len Berman: Top 5 Sports Stories Len Berman 2011

That's a tricky line to walk, both in story and execution, especially when the humor is liberally borrowed from the South Park playbook, which specializes in schoolboy, in-your-face send-ups of sacred cows.

Fern Siegel: Stage Door: The Book of Mormon Fern Siegel 2011

The lobby boasts a jubilant "Democrats Take House" front page from 2006 and leads to a crowd of cubicles packed with young staffers, their walls festooned with maps of districts and send-ups of former Alaska governor Sarah Palin.

Maryland's Chris Van Hollen works to keep the House in Democrats' hands Jason Horowitz 2010

That's a tricky line to walk, both in story and execution, especially when the humor is liberally borrowed from the South Park playbook, which specializes in schoolboy, in-your-face send-ups of sacred cows.

Fern Siegel: Stage Door: The Book of Mormon Fern Siegel 2011

Whether you like ray guns, send-ups of imperialism, or just some bloody good art, Victory should hit the spot.

Guilty Pleasures 2010

There are lots of send-ups of comic books, though, and terrific artists doing them.

Brilliant To Dead: The High Art Of 'Lampoon' Satire 2010

There are lots of send-ups of comic books, though, and terrific artists doing them.

Brilliant To Dead: The High Art Of 'Lampoon' Satire 2010

"The Book of Mormon," which scored the most nominations with 14, has a sense of humor aimed at adolescent males, but frames it with well-crafted send-ups of classic song-and-dance numbers.

Broadway Pats Itself on the Back Pia Catton 2011

There are lots of send-ups of comic books, though, and terrific artists doing them.

Brilliant To Dead: The High Art Of 'Lampoon' Satire 2010

Photo illustration by Richard Michiel; AISA/Everett Collection (Chekhov); Getty Images (2) Poor dear, sweet Elizabeth Bennet seems a particularly inviting target for such pop-culture send-ups.

When Mockery Is All That's Left Eric Felten 2010