With good parody, you have to be smarter that the people you’re parodying.
By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.
We have to do a film parody for Comic Relief. We can't decide which film to parody at the moment. Any ideas welcome, but not Spiderman owing to costume being too tight.
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 Simpsons', and then later in life they see the thing we're parodying. My kids had not seen 'Casablanca,' and we'd don...
The first piece of 'long' fiction I wrote was a novella parody of Stephen King's 'Christine.' I was in high school, and my version was about a kid with a possessed locker instead of a possessed car. It was also my first attempt at humour, which fell ...
I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.
Parody is homage gone sour.
Self-parody is the first portent of age.
You can parody almost anything.
To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.
I think a lot of the time you just parody yourself.
Alice is fictional. This isn't.
Reminiscence and self-parody are part of remaining true to oneself.
I see parody as another form of comedy.
And still the text will remain, if it is really cryptic and parodying (and I tell you that it is so through and through. I might as well tell you since it won’t be of any help to you. Even my admission can very well be a lie because there is dissim...
Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.
The digitization of human beings will make a parody out of 'doctor knows best.'
I never like to do parodies. I never do. It's just not my style of comedy.
On 'Robot Chicken' we parodied a lot of things but it was done out of love.
I can't get too offended when somebody parodies me.