Quotes About Parody

'Discworld' is taking something that you know is ridiculous and treating it as if it is serious, to see if something interesting happens when you do so.

I'm joking when I say I'm the grand-pop of those claiming to be an avatar-messiah or god. But if they're serious, then, I am who I am.

Tomorrow you're all going to wake up in a brave new world, a world where the Constitution gets trampled by an army of terrorist clones, created in a stem-cell research lab run by homosexual doctors who sterilize their instruments over burning American flags. Where tax-and-spend Democrats take all your hard-earned money and use it to buy electric cars for National Public Radio, and teach evolution to illegal immigrants. Oh, and everybody's high!

Styx has become the mullet of bands.

We felt like we had done as much as you can do with the slasher genre. We were trying to find the next group of scary movies that were ripe for parody.

I am no friend of the modern so-called 'black metal' culture. It is a tasteless, lowbrow parody of Norwegian black metal circa 1991-92, and if it was up to me, it would meet its dishonorable end as soon as possible.

Is not parody the eternal lot of man?

I love mockumentaries. When they're done right, they're really good.

I love comedy, because I like making fun of things even though they are dramatic.

Not all of Derrida's writing is to everyone's taste. He had an irritating habit of overusing the rhetorical question, which lends itself easily to parody: 'What is it, to speak? How can I even speak of this? Who is this I who speaks of speaking?

Baa Baa Black Sheep' makes Marx's Capital look like Mary Poppins .

Meta-comedy is everywhere and always seems so cold and to me is really kinda snarky.

Kitsch is more dangerous than it looks when taken to the extreme.

Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.

The great thing about satire is that it can be both funny and serious at the same time.

The crowd laughs at the parody. Weep, ladies, over your own fate, when you see the misery of imprisoned matter, of tortured matter which does not know what it is and why it is, nor where the gesture may lead that has been imposed on it forever. The crowd laughs. Do you understand the terrible sadism, the exhilarating, demiurgical cruelty of that laughter? Yet we should weep, ladies, at our own fate, when we see that misery of violated matter, against which a terrible wrong had been committed.

Donald Trump is like a practical joke that got out of hand.

He had no way of discerning the difference between true regality and a parody.

It was a hideous parody of when Taropat had passed his essence to Khaster. Tayven felt the serpent's breath writhing madly within him. Pulses of energy coursed through his flesh. He felt as if his body would burst. He was not strong enough to control it.

Are we happy? I am God, I have created this parody]

Sir Bumbuggerer

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

You can't be satirical and not be offensive to somebody.

There's definitely some parallels between me and Joaquin Phoenix, I think. The line gets so blurry. My rap career wasn't a hoax, but it was absolutely intended to be a joke. The problem was that I really was on a quest to somehow be a Caucasian Ol' Dirty Bastard.