self-parody

Fingers - " James Toback doesn't just risk self parody in Fingers - he falls into it.

Thankfully the downward trend stopped at 'Cemetery Gates', an absurdly overstated flash of self parody, immensely pretentious but laughably so, hilariously so.

It's always a lot better when they come on and do a bit of self parody.

It's getting to the point of self parody.

Spooks was already a self parody surely and suffered from an unconvincingly small cast of characters and thin plot lines.

A maximum allowable charge must be calculated for each procedure; the formulas approach self parody.

That policy can stand on the verge of self parody.

Critics accused him of self parody.

What they do have is an awful lot of front which they flaunt with joyous brashness and a sense of self parody.

Consequently, he started looking rather less convincing as self-appointed bard of the downtrodden, with 1978's Blue Valentine and 1980's Heartattack & Vine verging precariously on self parody.