Instead, he says Leno's live and spoof-heavy show will offer advertisers an innovative and DVR-proof alternative to reach viewers.
Voters are harassed by spoof late-night telephone calls from people claiming to be pro-charter campaigners.
It quickly led to the parody Tumblr account, Ballmer on Ballmer, on which spoof e-mails from the CEO are posted.
It's the day when newspapers compete to come up with the most inventive spoof stories - but not every bizarre report on 1 April is fictitious.
An hour-long film spoof featured a pasty Buffett going one-on-one with LeBron James, the basketball superstar, in what was at bottom a sales pitch for Coca-Cola, one of Buffett's biggest holdings and his favorite drink.
An hour-long film spoof featured a pasty Buffett going one-on-one with LeBron James, the basketball superstar, in what was at bottom a sales pitch for Coca-Cola (nyse: KO - news - people ), one of Buffett's biggest holdings and his favorite drink.
Maybe for the same reason that spoof logo t-shirts have been popular with club kids.
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And even as her visibility was limited to a TV guest spot here or a nostalgia-drenched spoof there (she and Frankie Avalon reteamed in 1987 for "Back to the Beach, " a box-office underachiever), her fans continued to hold a soft place in their hearts for her.
The new movie is the third to feature Mike Myers's comic creation - a spoof British spy from the 1960s.
Also discovered was Radio Five, a Monty-Python-like spoof by Eric Idle.
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.
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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Whereas the botnet Cutwail uses long-winded, spoof alerts explaining problems with your computer, aimed at tricking users to open an infected attachment.
The Brummie comic's most recent success is the police spoof The Detectives, in which he co-stars with Robert Powell.
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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.
In a presentation at the Black Hat and Defcon security conference in July, for instance, French security researcher Andre Costin presented vulnerabilities in the next-generation air traffic control system known as ADS-B that he said would allow a hacker with a software-defined radio to track and even spoof planes in the sky, potentially creating dangerous distractions for pilots.
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Please note: this is not a spoof, this is not some cruel creation of anti-Europeans.
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As this spoof of the 1800 election shows, however, the classically-educated Founding Fathers were extremely adept at vicious, nasty smears.
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Alan Partridge's Welcome to The Places of My Life and period drama spoof Hunderby are both on the shortlist for the Sky Arts channel - which also broadcasts the South Bank Awards.
It sets up a kind of spoof Batman and Robin, as if the Caped Crusader and his spooky lap-dog were not parody enough.
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.
His big screen career began with the British features Bottoms Up (1960), Murder She Said (1961), The Girl On The Boat and A Matter of Who (both 1962) and the multi-national The VIPs (1963), followed by Raquel Welch's spy spoof Fathom (1967).
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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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.
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