Quotes About Parody

Housefull 3' is not meant to be taken seriously, but is meant to be laughed at.

We find just as many things to rip on the left as we do on the right. People on the far-left and the far-right are the same exact person to us.

Everything needs to be lampooned. I believe that there's not any sacred ground.

People keep saying you can't satirize Trump because he's beyond satire, but it's not difficult to just let him out and let him walk upon the stage and say his own words.

I love the satire and skewering of comedy writing.

I don't buy the thing that you can't do satire in the age of Trump. You just have to be funny and figure out the angles.

I'm a 'Saturday Night Live' guy. I'm a comedy guy. As long as they're giving it to everyone, I don't care about how low they go, most of the time.

It's hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

I did comedy and parody television in the '70s. I was a liberal Democrat, and it was a very heady year.

I think there's always a line between what is parody in good fun in chanting and what is intended to belittle certain segments of society.

I'm actually incapable of lying. I'm like a parody of a person who can't lie.

Somebody once said that my look was like if Aileen Wuornos got acquitted and got a book deal. And I was like, 'That's wrong, but it's really funny.' And I've always thought that she was kind of like a gold mine for parody because there's all these things that went wrong in her life.

As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody.

Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it.

I think a law clerk told me about this tumblr and also explained to me what Notorious RBG was a parody on. And now my grandchildren love it, and I try to keep abreast of the latest that's on the tumblr.

The digitization of human beings will make a parody out of 'doctor knows best.'

You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.

I see parody as another form of comedy.

There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea.

Doing a format parody is one of my favorite things to do in comedy.

If you aim for parody right off the bat and it misses, no offense to the filmmakers, but it is Meet the Spartans.

With parody, you're referencing and sending up a particular genre, and mostly your material is going to be taken out of that genre.

I always considered song parody kind of cheap.