Quotes About Parody

The genius of the Marx Brothers is for parody. They never are themselves. They exist too abundantly to be content with being that - they must go on, by the rapidest of transitions, to being something else. Groucho, in my opinion the bright star among the three, is never anything but the thing he is at the moment pretending to be.

These gang types were hilarious to me with their secret handshakes and bullshit nickel-and-dime schemes.

There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men.

Any good parody takes a grain of truth and exaggerates it for the big screen. People ask me if I'm offended at all and I say not in the least.

What sitcom's brilliant at is identifying a social movement or type and skewering it.

We're a comedy site and have made fun of every single race, religion, creed and gender. We've made fun of it equally.

When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.

Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.

Every time I see Trump on TV these days, I'm waiting for him to burst out, 'Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!' That would make sense to me - that this has all been one long 'Saturday Night Live' sketch.

Ive become a parody of myself, as Im a big fan of a skinny cappuccino.

In every spoof I make real love to the things I am spoofing.

Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.

I don't ridicule religion, it ridicules itself.

I am talking about the responsibility of the poet, who is irresponsible by definition, an anarchist enamored of a solar order and never of the new order or whatever slogan makes five or six hundred million men march in step in a parody of order.

de que la realidad se le escapa y le deja en cambio una especie de parodia que él convierte en una esperanza.

I am drawn to humorous art that is ironic.

The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I've parodied over the years.

Most shows find themselves descending into sentimentality or earnestness at some point but, with 'Community,' the joke is always on.

This one has Olive Oyl getting it doggy-style from Popeye.

Monty Python: A documentary series on everyday life in Great Britain.

Yes, it's true, I've been called the Laurence Olivier of spoofs. I guess that would make Laurence Olivier the Leslie Nielsen of Shakespeare.

Yeah I love 'The Witches of Eastwick,' it's a classic, it's hilarious, I did a parody play in San Francisco and New York with Peaches Christ and Coco Peru.

Satire also allows you to make fun of every different aspect. It allows you to make fun of both sides. It allows you to make fun of everything, really, so you can do it in a harmless way.

There are people who think the film 'This Is Spinal Tap' is simply a very funny 'mockumentary.' Well, with Yes, we lived it. Take the hilarious scene in the film in which the bass player is trapped in a giant pod - that actually happened to Alan one night.