Top 50 Parody Quotes

Weird Al is not gonna do a parody of your song if you’re not doing it big.

The Supreme Court has crafted doctrines such as ‘fair use,’ which permits copying materials for criticism, parody, and transformative uses, and has ruled that abstract ideas are not subject to copyright, because courts will not punish people for merely using an abstract concept in speech.

There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can’t think of a clever enough idea.

I think to simply make fun of something isn’t particularly interesting. I try to not just do a parody of something or belittle something or disparage something.

My theater professor once said to me ‘Leslie, you are capable of genuine artistry but you’re the laziest actor I know. And yes, you can make people laugh, but you’re going to become a parody of yourself and end up in Hollywood if you’re not careful.’ And he’s right, I did all of that.

The first acting thing I ever did was my senior year I decided not to play a sport in the Spring and, in that Spring B.J. Novak who went to school with me, asked if I’d be in this show that was a parody of all the teachers in the school, ‘sure!’ That was the first acting thing I did.

We live in a world in which whatever you do has a parody account online in moments.

Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.

I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I’m doing a parody.

Before, gay portrayals in the media were so limiting, like a caricature of a homo. A parody almost.

After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it.

Somebody once said that my look was like if Aileen Wuornos got acquitted and got a book deal. And I was like, ‘That’s wrong, but it’s really funny.’ And I’ve always thought that she was kind of like a gold mine for parody because there’s all these things that went wrong in her life.

I parody myself every chance I get. I try to make fun of myself and let people know that I’m a human being, and these things that have happened to me are real. I’m not just some cartoon who exists and suddenly doesn’t exist.

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

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

The late 80s was quite a difficult time for me as an artist because I’d almost become a parody of myself. All people wanted was pink hair and for me to sing ‘I Want to Be Free.’ There’s nothing wrong with either of those but people need to see you as a person for you to be an artist.

I think there are barriers, but I think for me specifically, my barrier is being rejected from the kind of hip-hop elitists that think I’m not appropriating it, but just not serious about it. They think I’m a Lonely Island, Weird Al, you know – like a parody rapper. So that alienates me from a lot of things.

Yeah I love ‘The Witches of Eastwick,’ it’s a classic, it’s hilarious, I did a parody play in San Francisco and New York with Peaches Christ and Coco Peru.

Or the Department of Education and another ministry were worried about duplication of effort, so what did they do? They set up two committees to look into duplication and neither knew what the other was up to. It really is a world beyond parody.

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 anything about it.

By the very nature of satire or parody, you have to love and respect your target and respect it enough to understand every aspect of it, so you can more effectively make fun of it.

The beauty of the university world is that you can use it as a microcosm to parody anything in the ‘real’ world.

Some things tend to parody themselves, and we don’t need to do it very much. ‘Survivor’ is like that.

As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody.

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 have some deep meaning.

Rap’s conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.

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

My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.

Whenever I do a parody it’s not meant to make you hate anybody’s music really.

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 to the chair with vertical seat belts, unable to eject.

My biggest fear is becoming a parody of myself. That’s something I struggle with.

I always considered song parody kind of cheap.

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

The digitization of human beings will make a parody out of ‘doctor knows best.’

If you aim for parody right off the bat and it misses, no offense to the filmmakers, but it is Meet the Spartans.

After something has run its course, you either become a parody and keep doing it, or tear it down and know the truth about it, warts and all.

‘Skins’ has been such a great thing for our generation – I don’t want it to become a parody of itself.

How do you be a 45-year-old man in a rock band, do it well, keep your dignity and not become a parody of yourself? I don’t think it will be simple.

Everyone needs an escape, whether that is through music or humor. My personal escape is through both of those things so I thought why not combine them? But not in a cringe way, I don’t want to make parody songs. I just want my music to have a humorous edge to it.

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

I don’t think ‘Freak Dance’ is a parody; it’s more reference than anything. People don’t think of ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’ as a ‘Frankenstein’ parody. It’s kind of like that.

You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.

If you do a Western that’s funny, there’s no way people don’t call it a spoof or a parody, even though it may not be.

I can only parody stuff I love.

‘SNL’ has always been known for its ability to skewer politics, and the circus that was Palin’s bid to be Vice President was ripe for parody.

For all of my class projects, I somehow turned it into a commercial parody or put on plays. My whole thing was seeing things from a big picture, from beginning to middle to end: making a costume, doing voices, writing a script, making it all happen.

Drag is pastiche and parody and satire. Drag queens are never meant to be stars. We make fun of stars. Drag queens are the people that ‘point’ at the star.

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.

Ive become a parody of myself, as Im a big fan of a skinny cappuccino.

We felt like we had done as much as you can do with the slasher genre. We were trying to find the next group of scary movies that were ripe for parody.