Can you give me a example of a parody?

Question: Can you give me a example of a parody!?

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It's kind of where you take something some society or Entertainment and make fun of it!.!.!.Of,make it your own!.!.!.Like SNL with the whole president thing!.!.!.That's one!.!.!.Or you can take Weird Al,he's the best example of a parody!.!.Then I have this that a group of my friends and me did!.!.!.It's a parody of the ballad 'Barbara Allen'
http://www!.youtube!.com/watch!?v=rOua9-LYp!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Voltaire's Candide is a parody of Enlightened European optimism!. As a parody, it take some mainstream ideals or mentalities and puts them in front of a mirror!. The mirror shows what the reality of the situation *actually* is!. In Candide, the reality was death, rape, warfare, slavery and servitude, censorship, and authoritarianism!.

Borat is another example: a parody of American exceptionalism, collective egocentrism, misogeny, religiosity, etc!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a parody because it mocks the stupidity of trying to find the cup that Jesus drank from at the Last Supper!.

These parodies of Sarah Palin by Tina Fey on Saturday Night Live because it mocks her intelligence!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

A parody is directly based on another work or genre - Don Quixote (mocks knight stories), Weird Al's body of work (based directly on popular songs), Mel Brooks' movies, Mad magazineWww@QuestionHome@Com