Parody
Scandal, or Priscilla's Kindness, a satirical novel by A. N. Wilson first published in 1983 (later made in 1989 into a TV comedy-drama film Blore M.P. starring Timothy West) features a cabinet minister who gets involved in a Profumo-like affair with a prostitute. The prostitute is a naive, even stupid, young girl called Bernadette Woolley (Maggie O'Neill) (see IMDB entry).
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Famous quotes containing the word parody:
“Why does almost everything seem to me like its own parody? Why must I think that almost all, no, all the methods and conventions of art today are good for parody only?”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)
“Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)