There is some question as to whether Coates believed he was a great actor as he professed to, or if his performances weren't brilliant parody.

"We thought that someone had just written really brilliant parodies of his prose style," Cantrell says.

And Money God, the stand-out among a number of excellent tracks, is a brilliant parody of the 'prosperity doctrine'.

Many Star Trek actors have been quoted saying that Galaxy Quest was a brilliant parody.

His first literary works were so incompetent they were mistaken for "brilliant parodies."

And it is intimately related to Nabokov's own fiction, especially that brilliant parody of the relation between artist and commentator, "Pale Fire" (1962).

Mr. Muggeridge also introduced brilliant parodies, such as a four-page insert entitled "Her" that lampooned popular women's magazines.

If the group did not exist, it could be invented as a brilliant parody of the rock industry.

He became famous when on New Year's Eve of 1968 he performed his brilliant song-contest parody, on the Hungarian Radio.

Byron retaliated with The Vision of Judgment, a brilliant parody of Southey's poem.