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Quotes About Parody

Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill!" 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?
~ William Golding
Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! 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?
~ William Golding
British Petroleum said today that if this spill gets worse, they may have to start drilling for water.
~ letterman david iv
The Supreme Court has crafted doctrines such as 'fair use,' which permits copying materials for criticism, parody, and transformative uses, and has ruled that abstract ideas are not subject to copyright, because courts will not punish people for merely using an abstract concept in speech.
~ Marvin Ammori
'Silicon Valley' likes being satirized. They've all been waiting for someone to come along and make fun of it.
~ Daniel Lyons
I really like the 'Silicon Valley' show. It's good to do a little rib-poking and not take yourself too seriously, so I think it's awesome the show does that.
~ Reid Hoffman
The Valley is a place that takes itself too seriously, and it has yet to be properly lampooned. So it's time for a wedgie.
~ Thomas Middleditch
Don't anyone move. . . I think we've driven into a mimefield.
~ Jasper Fforde
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.
~ Al Yankovic
God created man, but I could do better.
~ Erma Bombeck
We have never been strictly political, only strictly funny.
~ Adrian Edmondson
I guess that compared to other comic strips, I'm edgy. But put me along something like 'South Park,' and I'm 'Captain Kangaroo.'
~ Stephan Pastis
The original 'Scream' is one of those classic things, but it totally pokes fun at itself too. It's never taking itself too seriously, which is why I think it's such a cult classic.
~ Shenae Grimes
Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.
~ Tom Masson
The work of art is a stuffed crocodile.
~ Alfred Jarry
Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it's in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one's own.
~ Alan Bennett
Camp is art that proposes itself seriously, but cannot be taken altogether seriously because it is 'too much.
~ Susan Sontag
There's a side that I want to do just like really retarded arty films … like parody, pretentious art films that kind of are supposed to have some deep meaning.
~ Andy Milonakis
We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.
~ David Foster Wallace
Y a-t-il plus belle parodie de l'éthique de la valeur que de se soumettre avec toute l'intransigeance de la vertu aux données du hasard ou à l'absurdité d'une règle?
~ Jean Baudrillard
Nothing is new anymore. We're living in a post-everything society and "art" itself has become satire.
~ Unknown
Our original idea was to write a book titled Fifty Shades of the Hunger Games, by J.K. Rowling with Stephen King: A John Grisham Novel.
~ Dave Barry
We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies--but this is very different.
~ David Foster Wallace
Homo Duplex. B.S. Latrodectus Mactans Productions. Narrator P.A. Heaven; Super-8 mm.; 70 minutes; black and white; sound. Parody of Woititz and Shulgin's 'post structural antidocumentaries,' interviews with fourteen Americans who are named John Wayne but are not the legendary 20th-century film actor John Wayne. MAGNETIC VIDEO (LIMITED RELEASE)
~ David Foster Wallace