Best Parody Sayings

102 Parody quotes by 84 unique authors

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… — Andy Milonakis
When I was growing up, This is Spinal Tap [1984] was the ultimate comedy, and it was the kind of thing I wanted to do.… — Ben Stiller
I think this whole celebrity world is weird anyway. Weird and funny and kind of pathetic and yet so right for parody. — Ben Stiller
May is a pious fraud of the almanac A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed with eastern wind. — James Russell Lowell
The only remarkable thing about Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, Part II is the insistent manner in which it recalls how much better his original… — Vincent Canby
The Victorians needed parody. Without it their literature would have been a rank and weedy growth, over-watered with tears. — Stephen Leacock
There's a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody. There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be… — Al Yankovic
I know for a fact, obviously, because my kids grew up watching the show, that there are some things they are introduced to from 'The… — Matt Groening
All great reality shows have a very, very similar format. That's why it was so easy to parody. — Cat Deeley
After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it. — Larry Hagman
As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody. — Michael Haneke
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… — Aung San Suu Kyi
I think a lot of the time you just parody yourself. — Dylan Moran
Satire is a lesson, parody is a game. — Vladimir Nabokov
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… — John Podhoretz
I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality. — Pat Robertson
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
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… — James Wolcott
Even hostile parodies admit from the start that the target has a distinct voice. — Tom Wolfe
By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube. — Al Yankovic
I can't get too offended when somebody parodies me. — 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… — Al Yankovic
I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak. Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And… — Al Yankovic
There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on… — Simone de Beauvoir
It's far easier to write why something is terrible than why it's good. If you're reviewing a film and you decide "This is a movie… — Chuck Klosterman

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