Word: send-up
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...revolving around Letterman. His new TV incarnation represents more than just a change of networks and an earlier bedtime; it marks the ascendance of a new generation. When Late Night with David Letterman made its debut on NBC in 1982, it was the prankish outsider, a subversive send-up of talk shows, television, the entertainment world in general. Letterman refused to fawn over guests; with the help of Vegas-obsessed bandleader Paul Shaffer, he took deadpan aim at show-biz phoniness. He griped about his NBC bosses, turned stagehands into stars, conducted elevator races in the hallway. His medium-twisting...
...pseudo-war chant songs make rap sound melodic. Yes, the plot is thin and predictable and the execution as slick as a frat-party drag show. All that has little to do with why a featherweight send-up of the men's back-to- primal-nature movement ran a year in Chicago and has chugalugged onto off- Broadway. The show offers fans of the departing sitcom Cheers, wondering how to cope without their favorite palookas, a two-hour maintenance dose of Norm, the fat, idle, beer-guzzling oaf with the inexplicably likable stumblebum smirk...
...Anderson's Larry fulfills the role of a chorus, commenting lewdly on his friends' sexual endeavors. He creates a sensational send-up up of a limp-wristed flaming queen. The audience howls...
Charlie Haas' script deftly twists three satirical strands together. There is, of course, the movie within the movie, a perfectly pitched and hilarious genre send-up, complete with a woman in perpetual peril (Cathy Moriarty, who is also wonderful as Woolsey's wearied girlfriend). The preview is a riotous muddle at which Woolsey's gimmicks -- Atomo-Vision, Rumble-Rama -- run out of control and literally threaten to bring down the house...
...message is as simple as Ivory Soap's classic "It floats." In this case, it glows. Timex introduced a dial that lights up in a commercial so droll that some Saturday Night Live viewers took it for an SNL send-up. Sinatra croons "Strangers in the night . . ." as a smitten firefly hovers over the sparkling watch. Smack! A huge hand suddenly swats at the radiant suitor but misses him, hitting the watch. The disconsolate firefly takes off. The object of his affections "takes a licking and keeps on ticking...