Quotes About Spoof

Everything needs to be lampooned. I believe that there's not any sacred ground.

I see parody as another form of comedy.

With parody, you're referencing and sending up a particular genre, and mostly your material is going to be taken out of that genre.

Parodies are hard to do well, as is shown by the mediocrity of so many recent attempts. No matter how ripe a genre is for satirizing, unless you know how to do it, there are no guarantees.

Anytime anyone spoofs anything related to the issue of global warming is good, because to me it's like, okay, gets the word out.

Before I went off to Rutgers, I worked in a comic book shop in my hometown. At night, I would work on some comic stories, and after a while, I developed an idea for a weird little superhero spoof comic called 'Cement Shooz.'

There are parodies of non-existent things.

I did a web series years ago where I helped write a kind of a spoof called 'Young Love.'

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

Well, you know, 'Spaceballs' is a weird combination, because it's a simple, sweet little fairytale, and it's crazy and out-there and making fun of and taking apart sci-fi, 'Star Wars', and 'Star Trek'.

If you do a Western that's funny, there's no way people don't call it a spoof or a parody, even though it may not be.

I was in the pilot for Spinal Tap before it was a movie.

Those 'Airplane!' type of movies, they've never been my cup of tea.

It's all been satirized for your protection.

There's nothing more fun than making fun of what's sacred.

I auditioned for 'Westworld' thinking it was gonna be a knock-off spoof. Thank God I didn't know Anthony Hopkins was starring in it.

I adore jokes. They're a theatrical contrivance, but the irony of all fiction is that you approach reality by avoiding it a bit; you spoof it a bit.

The problem is that in Ireland everybody thinks you have to have a 'take' on something. But if you have a 'take' on something then that's a spoof.

It's a sort of piss-take on culture, because a drag queen is a clown - a parody of our society. It's a sarcastic spoof on culture, which allows us to laugh at ourselves - but in a way that is inclusive of everyone.

My greatest thrill was the day Mad magazine spoofed 'Ghost.'

I kind of did this thing in high school, a spoof of 'Sweeney Todd' called 'Shirley Todd,' and I had a great time doing that.

The only spoof I think is the title, which was just we thought of very early on and it kind of stuck.

I'm such a huge fan of all this material that I'm spoofing.

I would love to do a comedy spoof, like a Spinal Tap kind of thing.