Quotes About Parody

Decaf is like masturbating with an oven mitt!

My favorite health club is the International House of Pancakes

I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.

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

If you like comedy, go home and curl up with Leviticus. The writers of The Onion are handed Leviticus on their first day.

Satire today has become a flat 'tyre'.

I stopped and I thought, 'What would Jesus do?' So I didn't exist.

I think they should make Twilight closets and all the cast members can walk out of them.

That dark humor has always been a part of what I've done. It's always been somewhat tongue-in-cheek.

Satire is enjoyable compensation for being forced to think.

Alfred E. Neuman

Alfred E. Neuman

When I was working on 'Vampires Suck,' I must have watched 'Twilight' and 'New Moon' literally almost every day.

If I go play golf with the guys, it's intended to be a joke.

That whole 'Bo' Selecta!' thing was damaging. I played along with it; I said it was cool, I can take a joke, roll with it, so I went on the show. But it was killing me.

People get so heated about it and can't see the funny side, I think. And plus, everything's been said. It must be really difficult to come up with new jokes about Brexit.

A lot of the joke of 'The Windsors' is this ridiculous idea of what might happen behind closed doors.

A lot of Christmas episodes of comedies are comedies trying to be dramas.

There seems to be more comedy for comedy's sake.

There is no way I will survive Mike Pence doing Carpool Karaoke. What song's he gonna sing? 'I Deported Your Grandmother?'

We live in an age that's very suspicious of preachy political rhetoric, which means that there's room for art that approaches these issues from the side - as satire, as parody, or as a kind of outlandish speculative proposition.

I briefly considered doing Edgar Allan Poe and just swearing a lot.

This trial is a travesty. It's a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham.

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.