Quotes About Parody

For such is the fate of parody: it must never fear exaggerating. If it strikes home, it will only prefigure something that others will then do without a smile--and without a blush--in steadfast virile seriousness.

The only thing I can recommend at this stage is a sense of humor, an ability to see things in their ridiculous and absurd dimensions, to laugh at others and at ourselves, a sense of irony regarding everything that calls out for parody in this world. In other words, I can only recommend perspective and distance.

Everything can be parodied, even parody.

The only good copies are those that point out the ridicule of bad originals.

Everything I say is a joke. I am a joke myself.

What happens to the West happens to Snow White, which is to say they both turn into jokes.

comedy was about what was wrong with the world—people laughed because something was too big, or too small, or too much, or not enough. Quirks and exaggerations were the essence of parody. Irony and discomfort the grist for humor.

My favorite sport is female and my favorite food is beer.

You can get rich making fun of me. I know. I've made lots of money making fun of me.

Satan called. He wants his weather back.

And still the text will remain, if it is really cryptic and parodying (and I tell you that it is so through and through. I might as well tell you since it won't be of any help to you. Even my admission can very well be a lie because there is dissimulation only if one tells the truth, only if one tells that one is telling the truth), still the text will remain indefinitely open, cryptic and parodying.

My casting in 'Uncle On The Rocks' is like Rajpal Yadav being cast as Shahenshah or Akbar.

With Portlandia, I don't think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the humor comes from taking something really seriously. We're okay with making somebody feel uncomfortable or uneasy.

Be careful not to appear obsessively intellectual. When intelligence fills up, it overflows a parody.

What makes 'Pootie Tang' the motion picture enjoyable is its no-brow ambitions; it's a joke action film. It slides through enough African-American pop culture signifiers to raise laughs out of those who will appreciate the references; it revels in more cheese per square inch than a soul food diner.

If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs.

ManBearPig, half man, half bear, half pig

If the Holy Bible was printed as an Ace Double it would be cut down to two 20,000-word halves with the Old Testament retitled as 'Master of Chaos' and the New Testament as 'The Thing With Three Souls.

They make Spy Kids, they make Scream, they make A Scary Movie. This doesn't do that, so it could be a very bad marriage. I'm trying to keep this potential nightmare quiet because we're just finishing editing.

Se se quisesse responder à questão sem asserções ideológicas, torna-se-ia imperiosa a suspeita de que o tempo livre tende em direção contrária à de seu próprio conceito, tornando-se paródia, deste. Nele se prolonga a não-liberdade tão desconhecida da maioria das pessoas não-livres como a sua não-liberdade em si mesma.

Marty This pretentious ponderous collection of religious rock psalms is enough to prompt the question, What day did the Lord create Spinal Tap, and couldn't he have rested on that day too'

What makes me laugh? Richard Nixon always made me laugh.

There are a lot of people who are considered 'camp' who have no idea how ridiculous they are.

Rory Bremner I have no problem with; he is a satirist, and a very funny one, too.