Variation around "spoof"

Spoof, lampoon, parody, take-off

2006 December, 14

BBC News: "Belgians reacted with widespread alarm to news that their country had been split in two - before finding out they had been spoofed."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6178671.stm

Spoof
syn: lampoon, parody, take-off

• It was a take-off of an old Monty Python scene.

Hoax
Syn: canard, windup