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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“Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.”
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