The video itself was a spoof of the different kinds of personalities one might find online or on TV.
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The satirical Web site TheOnion.com last year ran a spoof of a news story called "Starbucks to begin sinister 'phase two' of operation, " which detailed its expansion plans.
As one awful year for the euro zone made way for another, the German television network ARD digitally retouched the original sketch to create a spoof of European Union summits.
It sets up a kind of spoof Batman and Robin, as if the Caped Crusader and his spooky lap-dog were not parody enough.
"In Affectionate Remembrance of English Cricket" was the headline of a spoof obituary in the Sporting Times.
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One of several viral videos he's done for the Funny or Die site, the spoof shows a lighter side of his range that hasn't received much attention, says the 47-year-old actor.
In Russia, the State Duma (lower house of parliament) features a spoof draft law submitted by deputy Sergei Ivanov, in which he proposes banning the consumption of garlic - popular among Russians - in public places.
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Doubts over the Times' report had emerged last week when a French soccer website called Cahiers du Football pointed out that many of the details matched a spoof story it had posted more than a day earlier.
Of course, a spoof Twitter account made it into the mix as well.
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Please note: this is not a spoof, this is not some cruel creation of anti-Europeans.
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Other ideas, such as Ronald Reagan's beloved Laffer curve, were derided in spoof articles: Mr Gardner had a sense of humour, and used it to effect.
Reports of Anwar's arrest had been flying all week. (He even committed suicide in a spoof item on Sept. 19.) So when an eyewitness account of the raid on his home landed at 9.39 p.m. (beating major newswires to the punch), it set off a flurry of activity as newgroup buffs scambled for confirmation.
French jailbreak developer and security researcher pod2g finds that every iPhone firmware revision, even iOS 6 beta 4, is susceptible to a flaw that theoretically lets a ne'er-do-well spoof the reply address of outbound SMS messages.
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Brokers would also "spoof" the market on behalf of UBS - creating a false illusion that there was more demand on one side of the market than really existed, by advertising bogus requests, in order to influence the interest rates offered by the banks.
Mary Schmich of the Chicago Tribune wrote her column one week as a spoof graduation speech.
One of the most memorable sketches was in December 1953, when a spoof broadcast announced a UFO flying across London.
Bond's producers unsuccessfully contested the title of Myers's last movie, The Spy Who Shagged Me - a spoof on 007 movie The Spy Who Loved Me.
"On a personal level, social media has done a lot to change the perception of who I am, " explained Crane, whose spoof workout video has been viewed over one million times.
And he argues the idea of some trying to read his chip in order to spoof its signal and access his house or other property is far less of a threat than other potential privacy invasions.
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He said the project began as one of the short-form sketches Funny or Die is best known for: a spoof trailer for a Jobs biopic.
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