GRE GROUP: jokes/caricature/satire

1. Badinage (n): friendly joking between people; banter; teasing conversation
2. Banter (n): a playful friendly exchange of remarks
   Bantering (adj): good natured ridiculing
3. Satire (n): the art or practices of mocking people, institutions, etc or making them appear ridiculous in order to show how foolish, wicked or incompetent they are.
                  : A piece of writing, a play, a film etc, that uses this art.
   Political satire.
   Satirical (adj): containing or using satire; mocking
   Witty and satirical poems
   
4. travesty (n): harshly distorted imitation; parody; debased likeness
   
5. Farce (n): broad comedy; mockery
   Nothing went right; the entire interview degenerated into a farce
6. Quip (n): a quick and clever reply; taunt.
   You are unpopular because you are too free with your quips and sarcastic comments.
7. Caricature (n): a picture, description or impression of somebody/ something that makes them looks funny or ridiculous by exaggerating certain characteristics.
   He draws very funny caricatures of all his friends
8. Burlesque (n): comic or exaggerated imitation or version of something, intended to make it look ridiculous; a parody.
   A Burlesque of a novel/ poem
   
9. Lampoon (v): publicly satirize or ridicule

                    : a satirical attack