Quotes About Parody

Lincoln managed to both respect religion and parody it

After a moment I realized it was simply Fred Durst and the group Limp Bizkit—Shitload's favorite band. They're the ones who invented the musical technique of feeding a list of generic rap phrases to a goat, then reading its turds into a microphone over heavy metal guitar.

MCWONGALD'S—SHIT LUNCH TURDWOMAN

With good parody, you have to be smarter that the people you're parodying.

If you think the last four words to the national anthem are " gentleman, start your engines", You might be a redneck.

The man creases up. It seems he was joking; his shoulders go up and down but no sound comes out of him. It's like laughter, but also like a parody of laughter, and simultaneously a bit like he's having an asthma attack. Maybe you're not allowed to laugh out loud behind the counter of the main Post Office.

Basically, we used to have a rule at 'Saturday Night Live' that you're not allowed to bring up 'The Simpsons' at the rewrite table, because 'The Simpsons' has done every joke there is. Every week there would be guys going, 'The Simpsons did that.' I go, 'C'mon.' And 'South Park,' too.

I poke fun of everybody and everything. And who's easier to make fun of than your mother?

The 'Police Academy' stuff was all hyper-slapsticky.

There's a rich history at Westboro of parodying pop culture. The thing about pop culture is that it gives us a shared language. We were constantly trying to co-opt things that were popular to deliver our own message.

I think that every sexual position is fundamentally comic.

ESPN takes itself very seriously, but for some reason, I'm allowed to be the court jester.

I can cross the line when I'm making fun of people.

Barry White seemed so filled with self-parody at first that it was easy to dismiss him. But it is becoming increasingly obvious with every additional release that he is a very talented man.

Ignore him. He thinks the Last Supper was nachos and Twinkies.

She screws up her face in a parody of deep concentration.

But this later bit of bilocation-by-editing (Welles in Paris prompting Elmyr in Ibiza) also blatantly reminds you of what the editing room suggests: Orson has orchestrated everything to create, not a "normal" documentary, but a satire on the mind-set that believes in documentaries. Just like the "war of the worlds" satirized those who believe in official media versions of the news.

Seventy-two virgins - does that make sense to anyone? And it's an ancient religion, maybe it was misinterpreted? Maybe it's not 72 virgins, maybe it's a 7-foot-2 Persian.

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

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

The Bible looks like it started out as a game of mad libs.

We're starting our own religion at last. The Order of Frisbeetarians. We believe that when you die, your soul ascends to a rooftop and you can never get it back.

That's not a religion, that's Pokemon.

I appreciate that the New York Daily News will show dead bodies but blur the cover of a French parody magazine. Just out of respect, right guys?