Quotes About Parody

I love comedy. I love the absurdity of it. I love the kind of intelligence that's required to be dumb in comedy.

Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism.

I'd love to be able to do a comedy like 'Dr. Strangelove.' I'm not a very serious person. Really, I'm very silly.

I love to make fun of fashion because it is just so silly.

The best jokes take something awful and make it silly.

All great reality shows have a very, very similar format. That's why it was so easy to parody.

Camp sees everything in quotation marks. It's not a lamp, but a 'lamp'; not a woman, but a 'woman'.

Camp which knows itself to be Camp ('camping') is usually less satisfying.

One must distinguish between naïve and deliberate Camp. Pure Camp is always naive. Camp which knows itself to be Camp (camping) is usually less satisfying.

In naïve, or pure, Camp, the essential element is seriousness, a seriousness that fails. Of course, not all seriousness that fails can be redeemed as Camp. Only that which has the proper mixture of the exaggerated, the fantastic, the passionate, and the naïve.

Camp is art that proposes itself seriously, but cannot be taken altogether seriously because it is too much.

The myth is tenderly parodied in a 1928 silent film, The Cameraman, which has an inept dreamy Buster Keaton vainly struggling with his dilapidated apparatus, knocking out windows and doors whenever he picks up his tripod, never managing to take one decent picture, yet finally getting some great footage (a photojournalist scoop of a tong war in New York's Chinatown)—by inadvertence. It is the hero's pet monkey who loads the camera with film and operates it part of the time.

Satire doesn't stand a chance against reality anymore.

I eventually saw the satirical nature of caricaturing individuals.

I think mockumentaries are such well-trodden grounds for comedies. It has been done a lot, but it is because of that informal nature, it's such a fertile ground to be funny.

Basic Instinct 2' is camp, not because it takes itself too seriously, nor because it sends itself up, but because we are not sure quite how seriously it wants us to take it.

I like some of the B movies that are intentionally funny.

Although the medieval witch-cult of Western Europe derived from a primitive, non-selfconscious nature-religion, with sophistication it had become corrupt (as had paganism in ancient Greece) and developed into a pathological cult in which the doctrine and rites of the Christian Church were deliberately parodied, and evil instincts and desires were sanctioned and encouraged.

La historia no se repite, pero a veces se parodia a sí misma

I say and maintain, that of all torcheculs, arsewisps, bumfodders, tail-napkins, bunghole cleansers, and wipe-breeches, there is none in the world comparable to the neck of a goose ...

Bobby Henderson

It is a fine line between making fun of the right thing and making fun of the wrong thing. And the language oftentimes is the same.

Yeah, it's kind of tongue-in-cheek. You know, Five Finger Death Punch doing 'Mama Said Knock You Out.' It was just really funny for us.

There's always been this tradition of satirizing these rich groups of people.