Parody Quotations

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

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.

For all of my class projects, I somehow turned it into a commercial parody or put on plays. My whole thing was seeing things from a big picture, from beginning to middle to end: making a costume, doing voices, writing a script, making it all happen.

I see parody as another form of comedy.

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

I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.

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.

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

The first piece of 'long' fiction I wrote was a novella parody of Stephen King's 'Christine.' I was in high school, and my version was about a kid with a possessed locker instead of a possessed car. It was also my first attempt at humour, which fell completely flat because no one who read it realized it was a parody!

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

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.

I never like to do parodies. I never do. It's just not my style of comedy.

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

When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio level.

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

I can't get too offended when somebody parodies me.

I'm actually incapable of lying. I'm like a parody of a person who can't lie.

We have to do a film parody for Comic Relief. We can't decide which film to parody at the moment. Any ideas welcome, but not Spiderman owing to costume being too tight.

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

Even hostile parodies admit from the start that the target has a distinct voice.

Anybody who does not evolve can become a self-parody. I have to evolve on a daily basis just to keep my own interest in what I do.

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

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

I too was a little embarrassed by my recent topless 'scandal' and the subsequent parodies.

Parody is homage gone sour.

You can parody almost anything.

We live in a world in which whatever you do has a parody account online in moments.

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

Max Headroom, if overly exposed, could end up as just another Muppet Nothing would be more distressing than to witness a brilliant parody of TV turn into a TV cliche.

My favorite was the Green Mile parody in Mad Magazine.

Some of the numbers in the first half are about us rehearsing and getting ready to go on tour. The opening of the second half is a parody on things, and the finale is supposed to be the beginning of an actual show.

When I first read his work, I almost thought it was some kind of parody by a famous white writer, because he takes so many things from me and other writers.

We didn't set out to imitate or parody ourselves.

There is a tremendous parody in the Big Ten and home advantage has played out this season for every team -- Michigan State has also struggled on the road.

In education, parody is obsolete.

Even if you haven't seen 'The Seventh Seal,' you've seen it. The influence is so vast and insidious, every image of a black-robed, white-faced Death is a rip or parody of 'The Seventh Seal.'

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

This is a young conference as a whole. In the future, there's a lot of parody now, but I see us as only a year a way from being a super powerhouse conference like the Big East.

This is an absolute abomination and an affront to decency. Ordinary people, seeing these disgusting images of homosexuals kissing in a kind of parody of real weddings will be disgusted.

The young actors get hit harder because of their age. Because Rat Pack - which Brat Pack is clearly a parody of - was not negative. Brat Pack is. It suggests unruly, arrogant young people, and that description isn't true of these people.

It's just milk, ... Believe me, we know parody is based on a serious topic. So we wanted to make sure that it was goofy enough so that people didn't get upset.

That led me into the area of doing a movie about sequels and a movie that was a parody of the first picture instead of just a sequel to it.

It's an attempt to do speaking opera. What I'm doing can work against the melodrama and the music, and parody the melodrama. In the love scenes, the men are picked up by the women ? the men are swept off their feet ? so I can get a lot of comedy from it. It's a comedy of opposition.

At the end of the show he kicked over the piano bench and laughed. It was kind of a parody of himself years ago.

I'm quite sure that many people were exposed to the campaign by parody first.

One parody is worth a thousand polemics ...

It is clear that the world is purely parodic, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form.

He became almost a parody of himself, if you recall that black hat he wore in Arizona while brandishing the assault weapon.

You risk becoming a parody of yourself by not innovating.

As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody.

The neuroses parody the virtues.

The grand style is available now only in old poems, museums, and parodies.

All the world's leaders are subject to parody and the Australian prime minister should learn to live with it rather than banning it.

Is not parody the eternal lot of man?

You have to keep cracking yourself open or you become a parody of yourself.

Old age is life's parody.

There are parodies of non-existent things.

For such is the fate of parody: it must never fear exaggerating. If it strikes home, it will only prefigure something that others will then do without a smile--and without a blush--in steadfast virile seriousness.

Mick Jagger moves like a parody between a majorette girl and Fred Astaire.

Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.

The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God.