Believe Quote by David Levithan

It's easy to be smart when you are parodying smart people.

— Randy Pausch

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

— Craig Ferguson

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

— Pat Robertson

In fact, when I come up with an idea for a parody I try to resist the urge to Google the idea to see…

— Al Yankovic

There is parody, when you make fun of people who are smarter than you; satire, when you make fun of people who are richer…

— P. J. O'Rourke

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

— Georges Bataille

So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material.…

— Al Yankovic

I see parody as another form of comedy.

— Bruce Campbell

Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind…

— Jonathan Swift

Satire is not a social dynamite. But it is a social indicator: it shows that new men are knocking at the door.

— Jacob Bronowski

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

— Ana Gasteyer

The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon.…

— Ernest Hemingway