In which a new law is formulated

After watching Jennifer Saunders's series The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle, my friend proposed Dacko's Corollary to Poe's Law*: Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humour, it is impossible to create a parody of television talk shows that most people won't mistake for the real thing.

*Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humour, it is impossible to create a parody of fundamentalism that someone won't mistake for the real thing.