Quotes About Parody

We live in a world in which whatever you do has a parody account online in moments.

I can only parody stuff I love.

There's been a lot of Catholic parody - 'Nunsense,' 'Sister Mary Ignatius' - I think they've almost been done to death, actually.

Before, gay portrayals in the media were so limiting, like a caricature of a homo. A parody almost.

The Westboro Baptist Church is no more a church than Church's Fried Chicken is a church.

Classroom Activities 1. Using felt and yarn, make a hand puppet of Clarence Thomas . Ta-da! You're Antonin Scalia !

La tierra que habitamos es un error, una incompetente parodia.

La tierra que habitamos es un error, una incompetente parodia. Los espejos y la paternidad son abominables, porque la multiplican y afirman. El asco es la virtud fundamental.

I don't understand decaf, it's like sex without the sex.

Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.

Oh no, the dead have risen and they're voting Republican.

'Pootie Tang' may be raw and slovenly - hey, it often is raw and slovenly - but it succeeds as a laugh getter because of the spot-on satirical notes. You might say that the movie walks it like it talks it; I'm not sure what Pootie would say.

I remember the 'Scary Movie' series coming out for sure, and I was a big fan of those.

That's what I love about 'MADtv': If you exist, if you breathe, we will take you down.

I parody myself every chance I get. I try to make fun of myself and let people know that I'm a human being, and these things that have happened to me are real. I'm not just some cartoon who exists and suddenly doesn't exist.

It was just us lampooning our own peer group, saying, well hey, where did this stuff come from? And where does British guys get to be so good at it suddenly?

Every artist that I've parodied has been cool with it so far. I know one hasn't loved a version of it, but she didn't sue me over it or make me take it down. They've all been pretty cool.

You pompous, rotund, neighborly, vacuous, complacent... - Yossarian

Here, sex is removed from anything real, anything threatening. The parody of sex exhibited in the floor show is intended as an exorcism of the real thing and the passions it implies. Passion is to be made harmless here, turned into something hygienic, sterile, acceptable. Anyone foolish enough to do something genuine, anything worth getting blackmailed over, deserves only what he gets. Reno's

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.

If there is a god, I think he has a sense of humour. He does not require human beings to protect him from satire.

Long afterwards, I remember thinking that in all those years of endless analytical discussion only once did we come anywhere near the truth (far enough off as it was) and that was when Paul spoke in a spirit of angry parody.

Looks like a fish, moves like a fish, steers like a cow.

So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.