Quotes About Parody

Innocence is the one thing you can't re-create, can only parody.

Mel Brooks is an interesting one because he started out making films about stuff that he was totally affectionate about, like musicals, westerns, horror films, Hitchcock films. And then, as they get further on, and you get to 'Spaceballs,' then it's just kind of contrived.

Whenever I do a parody it's not meant to make you hate anybody's music really.

'W1A' is heightened naturalism, whereas 'The Windsors' is like the fever dream of a 'National Enquirer' reader.

University characters are prime for parody, you know - the self-entitled rich kids to the self-important protestors to the international students.

Most of my exposure to American pop culture was through this weird prism of 'Mad' magazine.

I think a lot of comedy is about making fun of people at the expense of somebody.

'Scary Movie' is very broad, and the reality is extreme.

I really like 'Community.' I like the way they're allowed to have a week when they go crazy and use stop-frame animation or a different pastiche. There's an episode with a fake clip show.

Awards shows have devolved into self-parodies - liberals in limos, corny insider jokes delivered by the hosts among bad teleprompter reading from the some of the best thespians on the planet.

which plays like porn dubbed by bitter deconstructionist theoreticians.

Un peuple, qui avait perdu l'habitude de forger sa propre histoire, se contentait désormais d'assister en habit du dimanche à une parodie : car nous l'avons vu, les armes des gladiateurs et les techniques de combat empruntées successivement aux peuples vaincus étaient comme l'image fossilisée de la conquête romaine. À cet égard, l'amphithéâtre remplaçait le feuilleton historique.

el miedo es a la vez lo que está "en el origen de todo", una parodia del cogito cartesiano: "Tengo miedo, luego vivo"– y

Deerstalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns.

My favorite sport is female and my favorite food is beer.

Take shots at em, I guess you could call it a parody. But compared to D, they one-fourth from watermelon to a quarter felon, dude you a pear to me.

Princess Turd of Turdsylvania" - p.17

Instead of Debbie Does Dallas, we get Gandalf Guts Goblins.

I didn't laugh, but it was a near thing. It's hard when someone is just exactly like a parody.

My theater professor once said to me 'Leslie, you are capable of genuine artistry but you're the laziest actor I know. And yes, you can make people laugh, but you're going to become a parody of yourself and end up in Hollywood if you're not careful.' And he's right, I did all of that.

It's all been satirized for your protection.

I'm a big fan of comedy music.

Get ready for 'Les Mis 2'... I'm playing 'Fat Cosette.'

Very few people took sordid things and made comedies out of them.