Quotes About Parody

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality.

Trump is an amazing comedy writer without realizing it.

I usually get recognized for Spaceballs.

I think I may have created a monster with my - I won't say act - but with my redneck pose.

I don't think 'Freak Dance' is a parody; it's more reference than anything. People don't think of 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' as a 'Frankenstein' parody. It's kind of like that.

Tutti abbiamo coscienza che la vita è una parodia e che non ha un'interpretazione. Così il piombo è la parodia dell'oro. L'aria la parodia dell'acqua. Il cervello è la parodia dell'equatore. Il coito è la parodia del delitto.

Je me souviens d'un fromage qui s'appelait la Vache sérieuse ( la Vache qui rit lui a fait un procès et l'a gagné).

The whole character of Super Dave is a takeoff on people who pontificate. So one thing I never want to do is pontificate why this works, why this is funny. I have no idea what the appeal is. All we are trying to do is make people have a good time and laugh.

In the world of 'Tim and Eric,' everything is big and ridiculous and absurd.

'SNL' is this part of American culture with a certain timelessness to it.

Obviously I'm a big fan of 'South Park', but it gets tiring at times when there's so much of it.

What Malkar was doing-and I wanted to shriek and giggle and weep, all at once-was creating a spell that would allow him to use me in the same way that Cabaline wizards used their rings. It was a brilliantly evil parody of Cabaline magic; even if I'd had all my wits about me, even if hadn't been still mind-numbed by phoenix, I didn't think I would even have been able to find a place to start a counterspell.

But I think you can make fun of anything as long as it's funny enough.

Q: How can you tell you're a redneck Jedi? A: You've used a light saber to open a bottle of Bud.

Q: Why do Jewish men watch porn films backward? A: They love the bit where the prostitute gives back the money.

Terrible times. I managed to come through But I never healed. My whole life has been Just one long cruel parody.

By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.

Every time John Travolta assaults a masseur, a scientologist gets their wings.

Writing a new film about cereal killers. Not serial killers, cereal killers. The main character can eat two, three boxes at a time.

I wouldn't have minded a rather more detailed conclusion (to Pride and Prejudice) — say, a twenty-page sex scene featuring the two principals, with Mr. Darcy, furthermore, acquitting himself uncommonly well.

A whole new genre really, that portrays the improved public perception of LGBTQ people in hyperbolic terms skirting dangerously close to parody.

Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it. —Jules Renard, 1890

Sia lodato Gesù Cristo, disse Don Biffero. Love me tender, rispose Don Fender.