Travesty

A travesty is an absurd or grotesque misrepresentation, a parody, or grossly inferior imitation. In literary or theatrical contexts it may refer to:
 * Burlesque, a literary, dramatic, or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects
 * Travesti (theatre) (also spelled travesty), the portrayal of a character in a play, opera, or ballet by a performer of the opposite sex
 * Victorian burlesque, a genre of theatrical entertainment popular in Victorian England and New York theatre in the mid-19th century
 * Travesty generator or parody generator, a computer program that generates nonsensical text (travesty), often based on statistics of an input text