parodist
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- noun
- /ˈpærədɪst/
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parodista
- No parodist goes unpunished because in these times the parodist is pilloried for the views he or she parodies.
Examples
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The comedian was a talented parodist, known for his hilarious imitations of famous movie stars.
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The best parodist can take a well-known piece of art and turn it into a humorous commentary.
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But that isn't necessarily a license for the parodist to use as much of the original as he wants.
Blog text (22) -
"This is the Nixon of the parodists."
Academic text (1995) -
No parodist goes unpunished because in these times the parodist is pilloried for the views he or she parodies.
Academic text (2009) -
So Don Juan is the antihero of my paper, for he is the parodist of the contract who pretends to master contingency by identifying with it.
Academic text (1993) -
A parodist need only ratchet the vatic tone up a notch, as in this send-up of Erasmus Darwin: "Great Babylon is fallen!"
Academic text (2002) -
"His voice," Ehrlichman writes, "was an orator's, his face a poker player's that never tipped its owner's hand." These close-ups add some depth and movement to the cartoon Nixon and to the flat caricatures of the parodists.
Academic text (1995) -
To attribute his moral lapses to America and its culture, as both his apologists and critics have done (the "Richard Nixon is us" argument), is no more clarifying than the "Tricky Dick" formula of the parodists.
Academic text (1995) -
As a skilled parodist, she created a funny song that mimicked the style of popular pop artists.
Synonyms
A person who makes fun of others by copying their words or music in a funny way
A person who copies people in a funny way to make others laugh
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Etymology
The word parodist comes from parody, a word that originally described putting one song 'beside' another to make fun of it. So a parodist is someone who copies a writer's or artist's style to make people laugh.