Quotes About Parody

The year after How to Read a Book was published, a parody of it appeared under the title How to Read Two Books; and Professor I. A. Richards wrote a serious treatise entitled How to Read a Page.

That movie, 'Airplane!,' what a landmark film it was. It's a great, great movie.

Nothing is better than the moment you have Michael Bolton dressed as Forrest Gump and you see it in action.

Onto Chastity Bjornsen's car radio came the drawling irreverent brass and subhip syncopation of a Herb Alpert arrangement, which Doc realized with growing horror was a cover of Ohio Express's "Yummy Yummy Yummy." He

They ought to put a statement on the Bible just like they put on cigarettes - like, the contents of this book may freeze-dry your brains.

There's a bit of a difference between a guy lying back being all sexy and come hither and mmrowr-worthy, and a man who has a toy stuffed parrot hanging from his nips.

Image is like a long shadow. Even when the sun goes down, you can see it. I think some of it is that there is so much pressure to be that person that you become it, maybe, to a certain point you can bear. It's impossible not to end up being a parody of what you thought you were.

Memories of the last nine years have turned Ground Zero from a site of horror, to a reminder of grief, to an occasion for ludicrous artistic posturing - and now to something very close to parody.

I expect a zombie to show up on 'Sesame Street' soon, teaching kids to count.

'Pro Wrestlers vs. Zombies' is a comedy. It was fun. You just don't take it serious. You just go there, get your popcorn, and sit down.

I have an idea for a movie called 'The Walken Dead' which is about a town where, instead of zombies, everyone becomes Chris Walken.

'Cockneys vs. Zombies' does exactly what it says on the tin.

Caricature: putting the face of a joke upon the body of a truth.

The frothing Trump-haters' extremism turns whatever criticism they have for the guy into mere parody.

After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it.

South Park called...they want their everything back.

I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.

On 'The Soup,' we were never a political show.

Parody is homage gone sour.

what makes it funny to people is that it's a gross distortion of something very familiar. For

My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney's sarcastic black maid. We could call it 'Mammy & Me.'

We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act.

You can listen to a lot of cowboy records that sound goofy and almost cartoon-y. Its a fine line to walk, having traditional cowboy songs rooted in some kind of reality, while at the same time maintaining that mythos without it becoming a mockery of it.

It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.