Spoof Phrases

Phrases

• Beyond a joke
• Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks movie)
• By way of a joke
• Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends! (line from the movie 25th Hour)
• Does the trick
• Every trick in the book
• Fake it till you make it
• Fake the funk
• Genius bonus (a joke or theme added to a programme aimed at well informed people)
• Inside joke
• It's no joke
• Joke around
• Never misses a trick
• No joke
• One trick pony
• Paternal bonus (a joke or theme added to a childrens programme aimed at adults)
• Robin Hood - Men In Tights (Mel Brooks movie)
• Sexton Blake (Cockney rhyming slang for fake)
• Sick joke
• Silent Movie (Mel Brooks movie)
• Smell the Glove (fictional album by the spoof heavy-metal band Spinal Tap)
• Spit take (spitting out a drink in response to a joke or surprise)
• The Fake Sheikh (Nickname of journalist Mazher Mahmood)
• The Indian rope trick
• The joke's over
• Trick of the light
• Trick or treat
• Turn a trick
• Winter drawers on (old British euphemistic joke)
• Woolly Bully (Sam The Sham and The Pharaohs song)
• Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks / Gene Wilder movie)