Converse of object

• become: Britain has become a parody of her former self.

• create: In his mind, this act created a mere parody of freedom.

Adjective modifier

• grotesque: In recent years the finances of football have been a grotesque parody of the Italian financial system.

• affectionate: This is an affectionate parody of village life in England, with more than a nod to vintage werewolf movies thrown in.

• amusing: The waiters whisk them off in an amusing parody of the silver domed rituals of grand hotel restaurants.

• funny: The latter is a very funny parody of the vagaries of modern theology, devoted to a continental theologian who never existed.

Modifies a noun

• song: We really enjoyed also the act who did the hilarious parody songs!

Noun used with modifier

• self: He was always prolific but at times his painting lacked passion and became repetitive or obscure almost to the point of self parody.

• movie: Out West ( 1918 ) is Arbuckle's first attempt at movie parody - poking fun at the already clichéd cowboy western.

• film: Evadne's wonderful FOTR film parody contains the line: ' FRODO laughs.

Preposition: of

• genre: The flailing band seemed to be trying to ' do a darkness ' , their music a parody of several genres at once.

• movie: Dumont's approach initially feels like a parody of the classic European art movie.

• song: She has also sung a parody of the song, as I Get A Kick Out Of U on Sesame Street.

• film: At times, it reminded me of a Monty Python parody of French philosophical film.