“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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
When I was a kid, back in the '40s, I was a voracious comic book reader. And at that time, there was… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
In a musical sense, it seemed like all the good intentions had gone awry, very quickly. I mean, we got back from… — Justine Frischmann Copy Share Image
“A totally nondenominational prayer: Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not care what I say, I… — Roger Zelazny 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
“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
When I walk in all eyes on me...When you on tha ground I'm calling 1,2,3…Your a parody Your a Spoof Mane you… — Lil Mike Copy Share Image
Today I realize that many recent exercises in "deconstructive reading" read as if inspired by my parody. This is parody's mission: it… — Umberto Eco 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
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
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
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
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
“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
If you told me thirty years ago that people would be parodying documentary films, I never would have believed it. It wasn't… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
Born to an age where horror has become commonplace, where tragedy has, by its monotonous repetition, become a parody of sorrow, we… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
I've found that there's a pretty wide range of silly. I don't want to do outright parody, because I like keeping my… — Jim C. Hines Copy Share Image
Memories of the last nine years have turned Ground Zero from a site of horror, to a reminder of grief, to an… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
Dear old al-Maarri was a great skeptic poet. He wrote a parody of the Koran, and his friends would tease him and… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
For such is the fate of parody: it must never fear exaggerating. If it strikes home, it will only prefigure something that… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“It is, after all, far too easy to pinch and kick the bizarre Mormon Church; to say it's ripe for satire and… — Mark Morford Copy Share Image
I fell into presenting after doing about a decade of parody shows of presenter-based shows, and a lot of it was me… — Angus Deayton Copy Share Image
At the heart of Christian ethic is humility; at the heart of its parodies, pride. Different roads with different destinations, and the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
