Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Burlesque is a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects.
HFBoards has an incredibly toxic community, but it also has some pretty great parts as well (there's some very in-depth discussion on occasion, as well as some humorous threads). Still, the community (and awful moderators) makes me not want to stick around for the great bits.
The âHOVrâ hoverboard is a Funny or Die fake, sorry internet [Updated]. Update: As we said, it was a Funny or Die lie, and the site is âsorry for lying about hoverboards.â It better be, it played with our deepest geek desire. Hereâs the full apology, plus the link to the making of video (Funny or Die disallows content embedding). Funny Or Die recently teamed up with a group of celebrities for an elaborate prank to convince the world hoverboards were real and that a company called HUVr Tech had invented them. Sadly, we were lying.