Category: Satire

Satire uses elements of a prior work to target some other aspect of society, parody uses elements of a prior work to target the prior work itself.

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Chaser APEC Security Breach Prank Update

Chaser tests police patience again
ninemsm.com.au
September 7, 2007

20061211adf8161479__085.jpgMembers of ABC TV’s The Chaser team have been questioned after another APEC stunt, just hours after security officials warned their pranks could result in someone being shot.

As authorities fumed over Thursday’s fake motorcade, three more of The Chaser team were quizzed by police in Sydney before being released without charge.

Craig Reucassel, Chris Taylor and Dominic Knight on Friday dressed up in black cardboard boxes shaped like limousines, complete with Canadian flags on the front and paper plates as wheels.

Their action was a send-up of Thursday’s stunt, in which 11 Chaser members were charged after driving real vehicles – decked out to resemble a Canadian motorcade – through APEC security checkpoints.

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Better Not Read Than Dead?

Washington Post, Other Newspapers Won’t Run ‘Opus’ Cartoon Mocking Radical Islam
August 28, 2007
by Catherine Donaldson-Evans
FOXNews.com

A popular comic strip that poked fun at the Rev. Jerry Falwell without incident one week ago was deemed too controversial to run over the weekend because this time it took a humorous swipe at Muslim fundamentalists.

The Washington Post and several other newspapers around the country did not run Sunday’s installment of Berkeley Breathed’s “Opus,” in which the spiritual fad-seeking character Lola Granola appears in a headscarf and explains to her boyfriend, Steve, why she wants to become a radical Islamist.

The installment did not appear in the Post’s print version, but it ran on WashingtonPost.com and Salon.com. The same will hold true for the upcoming Sept. 2 strip, which is a continuation of the plotline.

“¢ Here is the Aug. 26 “Opus” strip about radical Islam:

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The Washington Post Writers Group syndicates “Opus,” and the Post is the cartoon’s home newspaper. The syndicate sent out an alert about the two strips in question, according to Writers Group comics editor Amy Lago. Continue reading “Better Not Read Than Dead?”

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Don’t Eat the Cut Fruit

A supermarket produce department rap parody, The Fresh Beats, created by Razor Blade and Double D, and produced by Chronic X, sparks controversy and possible legal action by a major grocery chain:

For more information or if you can’t access the video on YouTube, check it out on FakeLaugh.com.

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