Burlesque vs. Lampoon

Burlesqueadjective

Parodical; parodic

Lampoonnoun

A written attack or other work ridiculing a person, group, or institution.

Burlesquenoun

A derisive art form that mocks by imitation; a parody.

Lampoonverb

To satirize or poke fun at.

Burlesquenoun

A variety adult entertainment show, usually including titillation such as striptease, most common from the 1880s to the 1930s.

Lampoonnoun

A personal satire in writing; usually, malicious and abusive censure written only to reproach and distress.

‘Like her who missed her name in a lampoon,And grieved to find herself decayed so soon.’;

Burlesquenoun

A ludicrous imitation; a caricature; a travesty; a gross perversion.

Lampoonnoun

Any satire ridiculing or mocking a person, activity, or institution by representing its character or behavior in an exaggerated or grotesque form; the representation may be written, filmed, or performed as a live skit, and may be intended as a severe reproach, or as good-natured humor.

Burlesqueverb

To make a burlesque parody of

Lampoonverb

To subject to abusive ridicule expressed in a work of art; to make (a person, behavior, or institution) the subject of a lampoon.

‘Ribald poets had lampooned him.’;

Burlesqueverb

To ridicule, or to make ludicrous by grotesque representation in action or in language.

Lampoonnoun

a composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way

Burlesqueadjective

Tending to excite laughter or contempt by extravagant images, or by a contrast between the subject and the manner of treating it, as when a trifling subject is treated with mock gravity; jocular; ironical.

‘It is a dispute among the critics, whether burlesque poetry runs best in heroic verse, like that of the Dispensary, or in doggerel, like that of Hudibras.’;

Lampoonverb

ridicule with satire;

‘The writer satirized the politician's proposal’;

Burlesquenoun

Ludicrous representation; exaggerated parody; grotesque satire.

‘Burlesque is therefore of two kinds; the first represents mean persons in the accouterments of heroes, the other describes great persons acting and speaking like the basest among the people.’;

Burlesquenoun

An ironical or satirical composition intended to excite laughter, or to ridicule anything.

‘The dull burlesque appeared with impudence,And pleased by novelty in spite of sense.’;

Burlesquenoun

A ludicrous imitation; a caricature; a travesty; a gross perversion.

‘Who is it that admires, and from the heart is attached to, national representative assemblies, but must turn with horror and disgust from such a profane burlesque and abominable perversion of that sacred institute?’;

Burlesqueverb

To ridicule, or to make ludicrous by grotesque representation in action or in language.

‘They burlesqued the prophet Jeremiah's words, and turned the expression he used into ridicule.’;

Burlesqueverb

To employ burlesque.

Burlesquenoun

a theatrical entertainment of broad and earthy humor; consists of comic skits and short turns (and sometimes striptease)

Burlesquenoun

a composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way

Burlesqueverb

make a parody of;

‘The students spoofed the teachers’;

Burlesqueadjective

relating to or characteristic of a burlesque;

‘burlesque theater’;

Burlesque

A burlesque is a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects. The word derives from the Italian burlesco, which, in turn, is derived from the Italian burla – a joke, ridicule or mockery.Burlesque overlaps in meaning with caricature, parody and travesty, and, in its theatrical sense, with extravaganza, as presented during the Victorian era.