sendup. little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

William Wordsworth

The New York Times
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Feb 11, 2021 — Charles Yu won the National Book Award for fiction on Wednesday for his mind-bending satire, “Interior Chinatown,” a sendup of Hollywood and ...

send-up

/ˈsɛndʌp/

noun

INFORMAL

noun: sendup

1. an act of imitating someone or something in order to ridicule them; a parody.

   "a delicious send-up of a speech given by a trendy academic"