self-parody

English

Etymology

From self- +‎ parody.

Noun

self-parody (countable and uncountable, plural self-parodies)

  1. Parody of one's own work.
    • 2011 January 25, “Portlandia”, in BOMB‎[1]:
      Though at first blush the new IFC original series Portlandia may suggest a scathing parody of the notoriously green-to-the-point-of-neurotic Pacific Northwestern cultural hub, the show may actually be a bit closer to “self-parody”.
    • 2013 June 4, Dwight Garner, “A Literary Mind, Under the Spell of Drugs and a MacBook”, in The New York Times‎[2], →ISSN, archived from the original on 12 July 2018:
      Mr. [Tao] Lin’s is an easy style to mock, and he often seems to be engaging in something that approaches self-parody.
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