Quotes About Parody

Humor is a rubber sword--it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.

He had been studying the writings of some local alchemists, he said, but remained baffled by their bizarre symbols and opaque texts. So, he composed a parody of their efforts, making incomprehensible claims by means of unintelligible symbols, and forwarded it to the president of the society. The president, apparently understanding the paper not at all, drew the obvious conclusion that its author was a genius.

The Ishtar of cartoons," wrote the Reporter. Every failure was the Ishtar of something

Good taste is the enemy of comedy.

We mock the things we are to be.

And a utility belt! I'm like an asthmatic Batman!

It's a serious world, someone has to make fun of it.

Diplomacy is the mercenary politeness of manipulators, modern culture consists of greedy hypocrisy, cynical myopia who value bad taste and obey herd instinct. The two-faced modern culture of politeness is a parody of indifference. Officially polite, but swearing in person, modern culture is a ghetto.

Everyone loves Hershey's Kisses and Hugs. I'm waiting for Hershey's Gropes.

people today find real debate about actual topics difficult, and much prefer the parody of debate which consists of giving a dog a bad name and then beating him for it, and lashing out, too, at anyone who associates with the dog you happen to be beating at the time.

The abuse doesn't take away the proper use. Magic is, in fact, a parody of the truly human vocation. Image-bearing humans, obedient to the Creator, are meant to exercise delegated authority in the world in order that life can flourish.

Parody was one way Americans safely digested their class politics.

I continued, "The painting shows this fish with a big eye and a halo, floating in air, and underneath the fish are all these Native Americans having sex." "What? What does that have to do with Custer's Last Stand?" "Well, the painting is titled, Holy Mackerel, Look at All Those Fucking Indians.

Ur Mom is my favorite wife

Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.

What's Wal*Mart? Is that were they sell wall stuff?

There was the blow-up sex doll in a deckchair on the front porch, with a cucumber in its mouth slot and a sign around its neck saying "I claim this house in the name of Satan".

It had a rear bumper sticker that read Legalize Recreational Plutonium.