Quotes About Parody

A quick way to improve food-related fuel economy would be to buy a quart of motor oil and drink it.

as Archbishop of Canterbury John Tillotson later noted,1 "in all probability . . . hocus pocus is nothing else but a corruption of hoc est corpus ("this is the body"), [a] ridiculous imitation of the priests of the Church.

I love an act that makes fun of the situation, and of course makes fun of yourself. That's important, you can't take yourself too seriously.

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

God created man, but I could do better.

I can't do anything too serious like Saddam Hussein, but I would like to do Bill Clinton. That'd be fun.

I think comedians have a function in society, which is to make fun of our icons.

Effective satire has to be almost identical to the subject that it is skewering.

One of the first comic things you do is imitate.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Jim Bakker spells his name with 2 k's because 3 would be too obvious.

Politics is a thing that is kind of the same over and over and over again. But we have to find new ways of poking fun at it and letting the air out of people and satirizing things that are worthy of satire.

Wow. I am really pretentious.

Someone once said that to make a regular person laugh, you need to dress a guy up like an old lady and push him down the stairs. To make a comedy writer laugh, you have to push a real old lady down the stairs. I don't know who that's attributed to. I think it's Aristophanes. Or Catherine the Great.

Bin Laden is living in the United States, and he has blonde hair. He's probably got some type of eating disorder. And he drinks too much, and then occasionally writes an op-ed under the name Ann Coulter.

Tina Fey writes crazy, off-color, racist, hilarious stuff for '30 Rock,' but it's always funny because you're in this almost two-dimensional world where there's Jenna Maroney and these over-the-top characters. That's the framework.

I was very involved in political satire, and I'd been writing parody for 'Mad' and 'National Lampoon,' so I made up some strange story about Gerald Ford.

Nick at Nite, the cultural equivalent of aerosol cheese.

I guess my sense of humour leans more towards irony and tongue-in-cheek performance.

There's some invisible guy, up in the sky, who can kill you, because he loves you.

I would love to do a comedy spoof, like a Spinal Tap kind of thing.

is the argument from design. It sometimes takes a rather curious form; for instance, it is argued that rabbits have white tails in order to be easy to shoot. I do not know how rabbits would view that application. It is an easy argument to parody.

Republicans are easy to make fun of.

In 2002, I was taking an improv class because, as a white male with glasses who was born between 1978 and 1994, it's legally required that I take at least one improv class in my life.