Possible Clues:

• Send up artificial light - it's provides a light at night without a lead
• Make fun of a fairly quiet twerp going round
• Burlesque item lit up by old nurse with nothing on
• Knock Indian city briefly in burlesque
• Parody, caricature
• Criticize through satire
• Satire, burlesque
• Send up satellite, heading off in pursuit of light source
• Caricature of crackpot capturing a politician
• Satirise, ridicule