Send-up and parody

By Anonymous -
The word send-up is also used to mean parody.
It also means a literary or musical work in which the style of an author or work is closely imitated for comic effect or in ridicule. It also means a feeble or ridiculous imitation.
Related word is take off. Webster says "an imitation especially in the way of caricature."

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