“I have one important question to ask you before I kiss you.” Kiss her? Her eyes had possibly bulged out of their… — Cari Silverwood Copy Share Image
For all of my class projects, I somehow turned it into a commercial parody or put on plays. My whole thing was… — Noel Wells Copy Share Image
I just want to kind of tackle every kind of form that exists in the comedy world; whether it be stand-up or… — Pauly Shore Copy Share Image
I know for a fact, obviously, because my kids grew up watching the show, that there are some things they are introduced… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
Kitsch parodies catharsis...It is in vain to try to draw the boundaries abstractly between aesthetic fiction and kitsch's emotional plunder. It is… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
It's a sort of piss-take on culture, because a drag queen is a clown - a parody of our society. It's a… — RuPaul Copy Share Image
The first acting thing I ever did was my senior year I decided not to play a sport in the Spring and,… — John Krasinski Copy Share Image
So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
“Here, television succeeded in completing a fantastic operation of directed consensus building, a real power grab, an OPA [Tender offer] to the… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“Reimagine 2025 by Stewart Stafford Imagine no Viagra, Put yourself at ease, Flags at half-mast, limp, No one worthy to please. Imagine… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
I see parody as another form of comedy. If you are making a comedy, there are a lot of different ways to… — Bruce Campbell Copy Share Image
In the '80s, I was the only game in town, I was the only one getting that kind of exposure in any… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
“Hey," said Shadow. "Huginn or Muninn, or whoever you are." The bird turned, head tipped, suspiciously, on one side, and it stared… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
He managed to do this 'tour de force' of styles without ever breaking the narrative structure of the chapter he was writing.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
At this point I've got a bit of a track record. So people realize that when 'Weird Al' wants to go parody,… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
“I took the one letter he had for us. It was from the Switchblade Gas & Electric Company. I didn't know I… — The Harvard Lampoon Copy Share Image
“And fair warning, as part of my tortured-soul thing I have to start being mean to you. Apparently that will make me… — Cale Dietrich Copy Share Image
“Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is utterly impossible to parody a Creationist in such a way… — Nathan Poe Copy Share Image
The first piece of 'long' fiction I wrote was a novella parody of Stephen King's 'Christine.' I was in high school, and… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
We have to do a film parody for Comic Relief. We can't decide which film to parody at the moment. Any ideas… — Dawn French Copy Share Image
“And don't trouble yourself too much if you don't laugh at what you are about to read, for if you perk up… — Harvard Lampoon Copy Share Image
But lots of people do parody now. The whole mash-up thing that's so prevalent now was starting in the 80's when I… — Robert Sikoryak Copy Share Image
“By now the valley of the shadow of doubt was overrunneth with skepticism, so God became angry, so angry that God lost… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
The only thing I can recommend at this stage is a sense of humor, an ability to see things in their ridiculous… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
I pretend no originality in observing that mass education was motivated in part by the perceived need to "educate them to keep… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
I don't think 'Freak Dance' is a parody; it's more reference than anything. People don't think of 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show'… — Matt Besser Copy Share Image
“Madeline lived there with her twin brother, Roderick Usher, who was nothing like the richest man in Europe. Even by Ruravia’s small,… — T. Kingfisher Copy Share Image
A typical 'Larry King Live' is a pastiche whose absurdism defies parody. Wearing his trademark suspenders and purple shirts, he looks as… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I think there's something in common with the OSS 117 movies. The big difference is there's no irony in this one. It's… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
“Raging crime, class warfare, invasive immigrants, light morals, public misbehavior. Always we convince ourselves that the parade of unwelcome and despised is… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, This is Spinal Tap [1984] was the ultimate comedy, and it was the kind of thing I… — Ben Stiller Copy Share Image
The UN may not be very effective but I am a fan of the idea of the United Nations. I have been… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
“Not all of Derrida's writing is to everyone's taste. He had an irritating habit of overusing the rhetorical question, which lends itself… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, parody or pastiche shows a deeper love for the original source material than a hundred official sequels ever could. In forty… — Stephen H. Segal Copy Share Image
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