He praised the musical as "an immensely loving and knowledgeable parody of the big-band shows of American airwaves".

That animated feature was deliberately crude, but its uncanny mimicry of a dozen standard forms (rousing march, hero song) amounted to a loving parody of, or nasty tribute to, the whole movie musical genre.

This is my loving parody to Keith Moon, set to the song, Drinking Like Keith Moon by Bob Rivers.

Both of the roughly 40-minute productions were characterized by Mark Russell, P.S. 122's executive director, as "a branch of the ridiculous theater" and "loving parodies" of the two playwrights' works.

Make no mistake: Mr. Black's loving parodies of early-80's metal singing - in television appearances, and in this movie - are the steamrollers that have paved the runway for groups like the Darkness.

Later, he wrote hard-boiled mysteries, including a loving parody of the genre titled "Let Them Eat Bullets," which sold millions of copies.

The developers have described the game as "a loving parody of badly translated action games and everything that they embody".

The film is described as "a post-modern, thinking man's throwback to the 'B' Movie/Exploitation films of the 1950s-70s as well as a loving, sly parody of the same."

Others described him as irreverent, loving parody and craving attention, but not malicious.

The carnival puppet session is each year a loving parody of a conventional Carnival session.