[ C or U ]
writing, music, art, speech, etc. that intentionally copies the style of someone famous or copies a particular situation, making the features or qualities of the original more noticeable in a way that is humorous:
He was an 18th-century author who wrote parodies of other people's works.
There is a hint of self-parody in his later paintings.
[ C ]
something that so obviously fails to achieve the effect that was intended that it is stupid:
"It was a parody of a trial," said one observer.