satire, parody, campy, spoof, pastiche, shtik, ironist, melodrama, hackwork, fantasia, shtick, soaper, tragi, conceit, comedy, potboiler, tragicomedy, weepie, absurdism, dramedy, grand guignol, riff, paean, vulgarian, scatology, lowbrow, allegory, fable, slapstick, lampoons, winkingly, film noir, ode, kitschy, grotesquerie, jean giraudoux, portrayal, evocation, smarm, subversiveness, jeremiad, roundelay, schlock, trope, middlebrow, knowingness, fatuousness, goombah, sneery, schtick, fictionalization, roguishness, primness, farceur, misanthropy, archness, foppery, antiheroine, vapidity, sensibility, loathsomeness, wordplay, noir, misanthrope, ribaldry, ditty, doggerel, opera buffa, argot, affectations, bitchery, lunkheaded, quippy, antihero, romancer, highbrow, giraudoux, opus, subtext, jape, cornpone, seriocomedy, irreverence, hepcat, bawdiness, grotesquery, spellbinder, gimcrack, oater, shlock, smarminess, romcom, corniness, tummler, excrescence, wiseacre, agitprop, sophisticate, vaudevillian, wryness, prole, juvenilia

caricature, imitation, impersonation

burlesque, charade, lampoon, mockery, parody, pasquinade, spoof, takeoff, travesty