It also reflects the tendency of America's admirable checks and balances to descend into ridiculous self-parody.
Their elevation of Jerry Lewis to the Legion of Honour demonstrates that they are capable of self-parody.
The cliff itself, which was to be the ultimate forcing mechanism, instead became something of legislative self-parody.
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He reveals, or even fortifies, the fact that self-parody has become the life-support system of international art infrastructures.
Denis O'Hare's lispy, adenoidal performance as the Baker, alas, borders on wimpy self-parody.
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Dirksen gave oratory a humorous afterlife as self-parody, a touch of W. C.
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With Fox as a congenial Hollywood superstar and Woods as a volatile New York City cop, the movie turns self-parody into self-defeat.
At other times, it borders on self-parody, as evidenced by a hilarious series of commercials ( here, here and here).
Stanford University in, note well, California, the world's capital of unconscious self-parody shut down a comedy website for containing too many sexist and racist jokes.
Movies about intertwined lives often suffer from the gimmick that's supposed to sustain them: Two examples of recent years, "Crash" and "Babel, " piled on fateful connections to the point of self-parody.
Despite its apparent extremism, the parliamentary faction of Mr Zhirinovsky's Liberal Democratic Party of Russia often votes with, rather than against, the Yeltsin government, and Mr Zhirinovsky's public statements, invariably laced with dark humour, sometimes verge on self-parody.
It is difficult to say how far this trend towards satire and self-parody will run in a world where politicians appear to be less powerful and when they agree with each other on so many issues of substance.
The visuals are much livelier (the production was designed by Darren Gilford and photographed by Claudio Miranda) and there's always Mr. Cruise, bright-eyed and intense, though he looks silly enough at certain points in Jack's exertions pointing his gun at every suspect sound, piloting his ship with "Top Gun" panache in a "Star Wars" chase to make you wonder if the filmmakers were intentionally flirting with self-parody.
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At least since the resolutely cynical "Seinfeld" and the absurdist (and underrated) "NewsRadio, " the sitcom has been self-reflexive, a parody of itself.
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