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Parody Quotes

Captain, Klingons off the starboard bow.

– Sulu

Star Trek parody in The Simpsons episode ‘Itchy and Scratchy: The Movie’.

When I was a kid, back in the ’40s, I was a voracious comic book reader. And at that time, there was a lot of patriotism in the comics. They were called things like ‘All-American Comics’ or ‘Star-Spangled Comics’ or things like that. I decided to do a logo that was a parody of those comics, with ‘American’ as the first word.

– Harvey Pekar

A typical ‘Larry King Live’ is a pastiche whose absurdism defies parody. Wearing his trademark suspenders and purple shirts, he looks as if he’s strapped to the chair with vertical seat belts, unable to eject.

– James Wolcott

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.

– Jon Landau

Reminiscence and self-parody are part of remaining true to oneself.

– John Updike

Memories of the last nine years have turned Ground Zero from a site of horror, to a reminder of grief, to an occasion for ludicrous artistic posturing – and now to something very close to parody.

– John Podhoretz

I see parody as another form of comedy.

– Bruce Campbell

If you aim for parody right off the bat and it misses, no offense to the filmmakers, but it is Meet the Spartans.

– Adam McKay

Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it.

– Aung San Suu Kyi

My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.

– Al Yankovic

It’s hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.

– Al Yankovic

At this point I’ve got a bit of a track record. So people realize that when ‘Weird Al’ wants to go parody, it’s not meant to make them look bad… it’s meant to be a tribute.

– Al Yankovic

There’s a side that I want to do just like really retarded arty films like parody, pretentious art films that kind of are supposed to have some deep meaning.

– Andy Milonakis

I’d like to say that parody is a celebration of a person’s specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery.

– Ana Gasteyer

My first big gig was as a correspondent on Comedy Central’s ‘The Daily Show.’ My job was to parody TV reporters and political pundits. As a result, I was often invited onto cable news shows as comic relief.

– Beth Littleford

I did comedy and parody television in the ’70s. I was a liberal Democrat, and it was a very heady year.

– Chevy Chase

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.

– Adam McKay

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

– Al Yankovic

You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.

– Bernard Berenson

There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can’t think of a clever enough idea.

– Al Yankovic

The first novel I wrote, ‘The White House Mess,’ was a comic novel. It came out in 1986. It was a parody in the form of a White House memoir.

– Christopher Buckley

By the time I’m in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.

– Al Yankovic

All great reality shows have a very, very similar format. That’s why it was so easy to parody.

– Cat Deeley

So that’s why one of my rules of parody writing is that it’s gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.

– Al Yankovic

I’m parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn’t true. The parody doesn’t reflect reality.

– Pat Robertson

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

– Daniel Libeskind

The digitization of human beings will make a parody out of ‘doctor knows best.’

– Eric Topol

Rap’s conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.

– David Foster Wallace

I parody myself every chance I get. I try to make fun of myself and let people know that I’m a human being, and these things that have happened to me are real. I’m not just some cartoon who exists and suddenly doesn’t exist.

– Gary Coleman

I think to simply make fun of something isn’t particularly interesting. I try to not just do a parody of something or belittle something or disparage something.

– Mark Leyner

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