Possible Clues:

• Preston Sturges specialty
• Back through the ages, it has always been ironical
• Parody, spoof
• A skit on a naughty old man, by the sound of it
• ''Best in Show'' style
• Funny how during the weekend it's all the rage at last
• Scornful comment on the Day of Wrath
• Humouous piece which ricicules
• Writings ridiculing vice and folly
• Novel or play that ridicules social failings