self-parodic

Otherwise, I think we'll have to page inter-dimensional troubleshooter Doctor Who to go back in time and rescue them from this cruelly self-parodic fate.

London Olympics security panics deserve their place in the Sun | Marina Hyde 2012

The idea that a key enabler of the most disastrous presidency since — to be charitable — Lyndon Johnson would dare reproach the sartorial habits of the Obama White House is absurdly self-parodic.

Button Your Lip Baby And Button Your Coat | ATTACKERMAN 2009

That this admission comes in a column faulting Obama for not using the phrase in his speech last week, of course, tells you all you need to know about how absurd and self-parodic this ongoing attack has become.

Nonstop idiocy about Obama and `American exceptionalism' Greg Sargent 2011

It is a laborious, sentimental drama featuring a self-parodic performance from Drew Barrymore, based on a TV news event that briefly gripped the US in 1988.

Big Miracle – review 2012

Frequently those who traffic in absurdity and smears to get media attention keep upping the ante until their assertions become so grotesque and self-parodic that they are no longer newsworthy.

Is there a Sarah Palin vileness/absurdity threshold? 2010

That the BNP leader should regard excluding people from something as profoundly "un-British" is another one of those cruelly self-parodic flashes that are his speciality – and yet this useless idiot is still regarded as a lethal threat by some.

The Queen should have let Nick Griffin in – he'd have made a fool of himself 2010

The same cannot be said for either of the week's other two high-profile releases: Rob Marshall's unintentionally self-parodic musical Nine (2009, Entertainment, 12); and Nelson McCormick's irrelevant horror remake The Stepfather (2009, Sony, 15).

Mark Kermode's DVD round-up: The Men Who Stare at Goats; The Box; Nine; The Stepfather 2010

Its critics say it's formulaic, overacted, overheated, cliche-ridden, with dialogue verging on the self-parodic.

:Acquired Taste Tim Stretton 2010

(Polydor) "Stop telling me I'm a part of this big machine/I'm breaking free," hollers Cyrus on "Robot", by which point it's hard to know whether to laugh or cry at such self-parodic chutzpah.

Miley Cyrus: Can't Be Tamed 2010

Frequently those who traffic in absurdity and smears to get media attention keep upping the ante until their assertions become so grotesque and self-parodic that they are no longer newsworthy.

Covering Palin 2010