Parody Quotes · Page 2

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

— Vladimir Nabokov

“nice knowing ya...”

— Fake Cinna

You risk becoming a parody of yourself by not innovating.

— Keith Olbermann

The Devil's walking parody; On all four-footed things.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“All families are silly in their own way.”

— Alan Hollinghurst

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

— Busy Philipps

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

— Leonard Cohen

Doing a format parody is one of my favorite things to do in comedy.

— Adam Conover

“In the land of sour grapes, the half-eaten apple is the queen”

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.

— Aldous Huxley

I think music should be tarted up, made into a prostitute, a parody of itself. It should be the clown, the Pierrot…

— David Bowie

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Cat Deeley

“I had a dejected, brooding expression on my face, and I could tell from the reflection in the window that it was…

— The Harvard Lampoon

It is clear that the world is purely parodic, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same…

— Georges Bataille

The frothing Trump-haters' extremism turns whatever criticism they have for the guy into mere parody.

— Greg Gutfeld

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

— Marlon Wayans

Yeah I love 'The Witches of Eastwick,' it's a classic, it's hilarious, I did a parody play in San Francisco and New…

— Chad Michaels

The history of imitation of the older literature, particularly abroad, has among other advantages this one, that the important concepts of unintentional…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I didn't know there were at least as many terrible independent movies as there are big-budget ones. Like, every single year. And…

— Kyle Parker

Not any specific one, but I was a huge fan of Frank Jacobs, I guess he wrote the plurality of the song…

— Al Yankovic

Parody by itself is not subversive, and there must be a way to understand what makes certain kinds of parodic repetitions effectively…

— Judith Butler

The Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the sun, in which they put a man called Christ in the…

— Thomas Paine

I'm a music fan, and I can listen to the radio, or music, without thinking, "How am I going to screw this…

— Al Yankovic

Any approach to scientific inference which seeks to legitimize it and answer in reponse to complex uncertainty is, for me, a totalitarian…

— Adrian Smith

Blake understood. Treated it like a joke, but he understood. He saw the cracks in society, saw the little men in masks…

— Alan Moore

“CREONTA: Rope! My rope! Hang those two thieves by the neck until they are dead. THE ROPE: Alack, but vile and ill-natured…

— Hillary DePiano

... the age of simulation thus begins with a liquidation of all referentials - worse: by their artificial resurrection in systems of…

— Jean Baudrillard

“Captain Smek himself appeared on television for an official speech to humankind. [...] 'Noble Savages of Earth,' he said. 'Long time we…

— Adam Rex

My parents took me to that I think is just one of those near-perfect comedies is Young Frankenstein. Gene Wilder and Mel…

— Doug Benson

The thing I love so much about the UN, is that they're so obviously corrupt. It's not like the Oil-for-Food scandal was…

— John Hamill

Our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from…

— C. S. Lewis

“Greta is great, but he's a little...extremely...moody. Take my birthday last year. At the stroke of midnight, he appeared at my door.…

— Bratniss Everclean

Who are these evil ones? In 1984, the evil one was called Goldstein. Orwell was writing a grim parody. But these people…

— John Pilger

“The rain in the Ukraine falls mainly not on the plains.”

— O Anna Niemus

One parody is worth a thousand polemics.

— Jennifer Stone

I think a lot of the time you just parody yourself.

— Dylan Moran

“-Shut the FUCK UP, said Jesus. [ The New Statesman , 3 July 1998]”

— T.A. Keizer

“Some people fight fire with fire. I've found water to be more effective.”

— Adrianne Ambrose

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

— Ivan Reitman