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Spoofing
English music hall entertainer Arthur Roberts (1852–1933) introduced the word spoof into the English language via a card game of his own invention. The first mention of the game Spoof dates to 1884, and within 5 years the term spoof entered into regular usage distinct from Roberts’s parlor-room pastime. Signifying trickery and nonsense, spoof was originally synonymous with “hoax,” while the verb to spoof meant to engage in deception or bluffing, particularly in jest. By the mid-20th century, however, the concept shifted toward its contemporary meaning, that is, lighthearted satire or good-natured parody.
At the root of any act of spoofing is the use of misrepresentation to make light of or ridicule a person or thing. Like many forms of humor, spoofing relies on the gap ...
- Anthropology, Folklore, and Ethnicity
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- Philogelos
- Animal-Related Humor
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- Carnival and Festival
- College Humor
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- Ethnicity and Humor
- Feast of Fools
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- Hoax and Prank
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- Jewish Humor
- Joke Cycles
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- National and Ethnic Differences
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- Race, Representations of
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- Antiquity
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- Cross-Cultural Humor
- Culture
- Education, Humor in
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- Gallows Humor
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- Scatology
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- Verbal Dueling
- Entertainment Industry
- History
- Forest of Laughter and Traditional Chinese Jestbooks
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- National and Ethnic Differences
- Obscenity
- Play and Humor
- Presidential Humor
- Race, Representations of
- Reactions to Humor, Non-Laughter
- Reception of Humor
- Roman Visual Humor
- Scatology
- Sick Humor
- Social Interaction
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- Teasing
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