1) Absurd distortion 2) Burlesque 3) Comedy 4) Crime against good taste 5) Crude caricature 6) Farce 7) Farce comedy 8) French word used in English 9) Great injustice 10) Grotesque burlesque 11) Grotesque imitation 12) Grotesque parody 13) Ludicrous distortion 14) Make a travesty of 15) Mockery 16) Mockery; caricature 1) Charade 2) Distortion 3) Farce 4) Lampoon 5) Misrepresentation 6) Parody 7) Pasquinade 8) Pretence 9) Sendup 10) Shambles 11) Spoof 
a work that deflates something that is treated by another work with high seriousness.
• (n.) A burlesque translation or imitation of a work. • (v. t.) To translate, imitate, or represent, so as to render ridiculous or ludicrous. • (a.) Disguised by dress so as to be ridiculous; travestied; -- applied to a book or shorter composition.
[Noun] A very bad imitation of something.
in literature, the treatment of a noble and dignified subject in an inappropriately trivial manner. Travesty is a crude form of burlesque in which ... [1 related articles]
Debasement of a serious subject or serious literary work either accidentally or through intentional
A work that deflates something that is treated by another work with high seriousness.
parody/imitation 
[v] - make a parody of
A work that treats a serious subject frivolously, ridiculing the dignified. Often the tone is mock serious and heavy handed.
[SAT terms] a composition that imitates or misrepresents a style