Quotes About Parody

Normally, 'Saturday Night Live' is about as entertaining as an ocular migraine.

For even satire is a form of sympathy.

Good thing he changed it," Jerry mused. "Who could take a vampire named Will Walwoi seriously?" "Jerry … !" "Will Walwoi, Prince of Darkness! Curse of Will Walwoi! Will Walwoi Meets the Wolfman! Abbott and Costello Meet Will Walwoi!" Jerry began to laugh. "Can you imagine Bela Lugosi saying, 'Good eeevening. I am Will Walwoi!

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You can't camp about something you don't take seriously. You're not making fun of it. You're making fun out of it.

There goes the world's wimpiest vampire.

The Victorians needed parody. Without it their literature would have been a rank and weedy growth, over-watered with tears.

Satire is focused bitterness.

every one of the novels. To some the delightful freshness and humour of Northanger Abbey, its completeness, finish, and entrain, obscure the undoubted critical facts that its scale is small, and its scheme, after all, that of burlesque or parody, a kind in which the

zombie, all you have to do is douse your shop in my stink spray.

It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.

It's always fun to put fake celebrities in unlikely situations, but somehow it's even more fun when politicians are involved.

What makes me laugh is, of course, the absurd, the horror - anything that upsets me.

Steve Martin's comedy albums are so ridiculous.

When I won the Oscar, I fell into that mind-set that this is a precious role. People everywhere were shouting, 'Show me the money!' I just didn't want anything that could parody the fact that I was like a tagline in a movie. So when Steven Spielberg offered me 'Amistad,' I said no; when 'Hotel Rwanda' came along, I said no.

Some of the pictures I must say every now and then I just think are going to be funny. When it gets that much, you might as well just pull out all the stops and make it more of a burlesque.

The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.

Working Class Hero," a ruthless Dylan parody that also works as a scathing smack-down of the luckless Scouser mystique, has the same bitter, stony-faced irony of "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" or "Happiness Is a Warm Gun." It walks a frightening line, and too many people still hear it literally.

Películas: El caso Bourne30 (Bourne Identity), Zombies party31 (Shaun of the Dead).

Fifty Shades of Chicken That's the title of Shaun's "most-gifted" book. Totally serious. I assumed it would be a complete joke, but it has nearly 700 reviews on Amazon and a 4.8-star average.

I can't get too offended when somebody parodies me.

You must meet old Rowbotham, Bertie. A delightful chap. Wants to massacre the bourgeoisie, sack Park Lane and disembowel the hereditary aristocracy. Well, nothing could be fairer than that, what?

Without conscious thought I stepped behind the altar, raised my arms, and began the celebration of the Eucharist. There was no sense of parody or melodrama in this act, no symbolism or hidden intention; it was merely the automatic reaction of a priest who had said Mass almost daily for more than forty-six years of his life and who now faced the prospect of never again participating in the reassuring ritual of that celebration. It

Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn't you?' said the head. For a moment or two the forest and all the other dimly appreciated places echoed with the parody of laughter. 'You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you? Close, close, close! I'm the reason why it's no go? Why things are what they are?