It was meant as sort of a send-up, a historical send-up.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 15, 2005] Reference

SIMON: This is such a Motown send-up, is that fair to say?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Was (Not Was) Still Is] Reference

There was one long send-up that did gather a few chuckles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Tea-Bait] Reference

Liam -- that is a truly terrific send-up of the bogus "bias" nonsense.    From Wordnik.com.  [McCain Web Site Touts Support Of "Former" President George W. Bush] Reference

The Child Buyer is a clever send-up, with humor far from lighthearted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Norman Solomon: The United States of Violence] Reference

This whole thing was supposed to be a LeBron send-up, especially this part.    From Wordnik.com.  [LaVar Arrington joins Washington Post] Reference

This clever send-up of the TV series stars Special Agents Mully and Scudder.    From Wordnik.com.  ['X-Files' Takeoff] Reference

It's a lounge music send-up that begs for a pitcher of martinis as accompaniment.    From Wordnik.com.  [String Theory: Reviewing 'Party Intellectuals'] Reference

Apparently, it's become fashionable for more "credible" acts to send-up pop songs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jack Donaldson: This Week's Internet Diversions] Reference

Warning: this is the real thing out of the White House; not an Andy Borowitz send-up.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Surprised" Hildebrand Responds To Critics: "I Don't Regret Any Of It"] Reference

The Daily Show did a four-minute send-up, complete with a white-suited R. Kelly impersonator.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bad for Business] Reference

This send-up of amateur theatrics was directed by the master of the mockumentary, Christopher Guest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fashionista ‘Brüno’ Has No Clothes] Reference

For years, the "Simpsons" have used the Kwik-E-Mart as a thinly veiled send-up, of course, to 7-Eleven.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 2, 2007] Reference

Consider a tune like 1986's " Living With a Hernia ," a send-up of James Brown's " Living in America .".    From Wordnik.com.  [Weird Al: Forefather of the YouTube Spoof] Reference

UPDATE: Jon Stewart took apart Kramer and Santelli limb by limb last night in a brilliant send-up of CNBC.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Miller: Is Wall Street Still America?] Reference

Pretty much every convention or trope in every movie mentioned on this list gets a rich send-up in this parody.    From Wordnik.com.  [Friday List: The best prom scenes ever] Reference

A charming send-up of the illustrious Barrymores, theatrical and film stars of their day, this 1927 play is a.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fern Siegel: Stage Door: The Royal Family, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Memphis] Reference

A horse hitched to the end of the chain hauls up the log, which is guided by the "send-up men" with their cant-hooks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handwork in Wood] Reference

Now playing at the Pearl Theater, Tartuffe is a hilarious send-up of faux leaders and those who blindly worship them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Tartuffe, Hair] Reference

"Wigs on the Green," with its send-up of Mosley's movement, displeased Unity and caused an immediate breach with Diana.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pursuit of Laughter] Reference

The film doesn't have the rapier wit of his previous feature "Waiting for Guffman," a sly send-up of amateur theatrics.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Hotel for Dogs' Is Puppy Chow] Reference

A Victorian send-up of all things Charles Dickens at TADA Theatre, the play is clever, witty and worthy of a larger venue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fern Siegel: Stage Door: After Miss Julie, The Lady With All The Answers, Penny Penniworth] Reference

All I remember from the original is the send-up of Sound of Music with Mr. Cook and Dudley Moore dressed up as jumping nuns.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seventh Sense Apparently Makes Bruce Willis a Superhero] Reference

Mel Brooks directed this antic talkie, a send-up of the silent era that has a reputation disproportionate to its laugh content.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sounds of Silence] Reference

Soon, the cast of Glee will learn which parts they'll be playing in their Halloween episode send-up of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.    From Wordnik.com.  [Keck's Exclusives: Glee Cast Gears Up for Rocky Horror Halloween Spectacular] Reference

NORRIS: The dancing soldiers are with the 82nd Airborne, stationed in Afghanistan, and their Lady Gaga send-up is a YouTube sensation.    From Wordnik.com.  [U.S. Troops Spoof Lady Gaga Video] Reference

You've got the fiddles and it sounds like a total lament for love lost, and then you realize you're doing a really witty send-up here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brad Paisley's 'Time Well Wasted'] Reference

The illustration is essentially a send-up of feast scenes as seen in the popular series, yet without the traditional wild boar and ale.    From Wordnik.com.  [McDonald's French Comic Hero Ad Sparks Outrage] Reference

D ` ATTOMA: How did you feel, as an actor, being part of a movie like this, that is just a complete send-up of everything that ` s gone on?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 21, 2006] Reference

On the night I attended, the send-up of the most famous line in 42nd Street, for example, was no longer greeted with its usual belly laugh.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Did They Go Wrong? Dynamic Duo Returns to Save the Day] Reference

A charming send-up of the illustrious Barrymores, theatrical and film stars of their day, this 1927 play is a charmer from start to finish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fern Siegel: Stage Door: The Royal Family, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Memphis] Reference

Add to that the fact that "The Producers" is in large part a send-up of the whole Broadway musical tradition, an unfamiliar one to Germans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Springtime for Hitler in Germany] Reference

Tropic Thunder There was no funnier movie this year than Ben Stiller's send-up of narcissistic actors making a Vietnam War movie that turns hilariously real. 9.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ansen’s 10 Best Movies] Reference

It was a consistent highlight of a consistently hilarious show, a subtle but side-splitting send-up of self-involved black music celebrities and star adulation in general.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pootie the Fool] Reference