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It's hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.
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Old age is life's parody.
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Even hostile parodies admit from the start that the target has a distinct voice.
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The Victorians needed parody. Without it their literature would have been a rank and weedy growth, over-watered with tears.
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Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.
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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.
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Satires and lampoons on particular people circulate more by giving copies in confidence to the friends of the parties, than by printing them.
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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.
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Satire recoils whenever charged too high; round your own fame the fatal splinters fly.
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Gradually compositions make an appearance again. Political - satirical - conceits expressed in one figure or a few.
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Satire has a great big glaring target. If successful, it blasts a great big hole in the center. Directness there must be and singleness of aim: it is all aim, all trajectory.
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Every writer scrounges for inspiration in different places, and there's no shame in raiding the headlines. It's necessary, in fact, when attempting contemporary satire. Sharp-edged humor relies on topical reference points.
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One of the most evil dispositions possible is that which satirizes and turns everything to ridicule. God abhors this vice, and has sometimes punished it in a marked manner
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Satire is the disease of art.
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Satire chooses and knows no objects. It arises by fleeing from them and their forcing themselves upon it.
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There is nothing that more betrays a base ungenerous spirit than the giving of secret stabs to a man's reputation. Lampoons and satires that are written with wit and spirit are like poisoned darts, which not only inflict a wound, but make it incurable.
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Plays have been made of my comics.
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Comedy is tragedy revisited.
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The immature poet imitates, the mature poet plagiarizes,
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The world likes humor, but it treats it patronizingly. It decorates its serious artists with laurel, and its wags with Brussels sprouts.
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If smart people are parodying it, that's a sure sign that some less smart people are believing it.
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I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.
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The feathered arrow of satire has oft been wet with the heart's blood of its victims.
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Some people you don't have to satirize, you just quote 'em.
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A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.
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Satire is tragedy plus time.
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Comedy is the kindly contemplation of the incongruous.
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The neuroses parody the virtues.
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There is nothing in human affairs that is a true subject for ridicule. Beneath comedy lies the ferment of tragedy; the farcical is but a cloak for coming catastrophe.
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Good poets borrow, great poets steal
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Satire must always accompany any free society. It is an absolute necessity. Even in the most repressive medieval kingdoms, they understood the need for the court jester, the one soul allowed to tell the truth through laughter,
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All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we seeourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals.
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Even a man's exact imitation of the song of the nightingale displeases us when we discover that it is a mimicry, and not the nightingale.
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Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse?a matching and shifting of vowels and consonants, an adroit assonance sometimes derided as jackassonance.
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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. It has to work on its own merit.
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Comedians dissect jokes all the time. Comedians are beautiful structuralists. But ultimately it's an athletic endeavor.
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Humor is essential to a successful tactician, for the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule.
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One of the first comic things you do is imitate.
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We live in a world in which whatever you do has a parody account online in moments.
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Humour in its highest reach mingles with pathos: it voices sorrow for our human lot and reconciliation with it.
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I love the satire and skewering of comedy writing.
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How easy it is to mock, how hard it is to understand! Yet mockery has ever mocked the mocker.
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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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In the '80s, I was the only game in town, I was the only one getting that kind of exposure in any rotation on MTV. Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they're not all good!
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By seeing the way a joke worked in the horseplay of a printing shop two centuries ago, we may be able to recapture that missing element - laughter, sheer laughter, the thigh-slapping, rib-cracking Rabelaisian kind, rather than the Voltairian smirk with which we are familiar.
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The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
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What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.
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I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.
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It is indeed certain, that whoever attempts any common topick, will find unexpected coincidences of his thoughts with those of other writers; nor can the nicest judgment always distinguish accidental similitude from artful imitation.
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No writer can be fully convicted of imitation except there is a concurrence of more resemblance than can be imagined to have happened by chance; as where the same ideas are conjoined without any natural series or necessary coherence, or where not only the thought but the words are copied.
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Shorn of intimacy and seen from a considerable distance, we are all comic characters, farcical buffoons who bumble through our lives, making fine messes as we go, but when you get close, the ridiculous quickly fades into the sordid or the tragic or the merely sad. [p. 73]
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A clever schoolboy's reaction to his reading is most naturally expressed by parody or imitation.
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Puns are a form of humor with words.
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One way to drive home the futility and evil of war is to tap the distancing power of satire.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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Thou shalt not steal-only from other comedians.
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Satire works best when it hews close to the line between the outlandish and the possible - and as that line continues to grow thinner, the satirist's task becomes ever more difficult.
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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.
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Satire about any and all professionals with a special vocabulary has been a staple of fiction and popular ridicule since the 18th century.
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Pranking exposes the truth that underneath this appearance of order is joy, laughter, and disorder.
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The freedom of poetic license.
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Satire may be mad and anarchic, but it presupposes an admitted superiority in certain things over others; it presupposes a standard.
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There is small merit in mocking goodness, tweaking charity; it is much more comic to deprive people of their petty little existence for no reason at all, for a lark.
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A satire should expose nothing but what is corrigible, and should make a due discrimination between those that are and those that are not the proper objects of it.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame;
He hides behind a magisterial air
He own offences, and strips others' bare.
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I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.
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You can make fun of everything.
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Having a syndicated comic strip is a great platform for ripping on expressions you hate.
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The public is gullible ... If [many satirists are] making the same joke, that's the danger. Then there's a solidifying effect and it becomes a truth.
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The end of satire is the amendment of vices by correction; and he who writes honestly is no more an enemy to the offender than the physician to the patient when he prescribes harsh remedies.
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Everything I love: literature, irony, humor, the individual, and the defense of free expression.
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Comedy mocks the vanity of visions of rational control. The person who can joke amidst a confrontation with evil, like the quick-witted Spider-Man, must be reconciled to the permanent imperfections of a corrupted world populated by fallen creatures.
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Whenever I do a parody it's not meant to make you hate anybody's music really.
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Humor is the ovum of dissent,
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Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden
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You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
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Imitation is flattery
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I eventually saw the satirical nature of caricaturing individuals.
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Comedy, as we said, is an imitation of people of a lower sort, though not in respect to every vice; rather, what is ridiculous is part of what is ugly.
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Friendly satire may be compared to a fine lancet, which gently breathes a vein for health's sake.
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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 artistic posturing - and now to something very close to parody.
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Every artist learns through imitation, but I rather doubt the aim of these things is artistic development. I assume they're either homages or satiric riffs, and are not intended to be taken too seriously as works in their own right. Otherwise I should be talking to a copyright lawyer.
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Among the writers of antiquity there are none who instruct us more openly in the manners of their respective times in which they lived than those who have employed themselves in satire, under whatever dress it may appear.
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Life is a campus: in a Greenwich Village bookstore, looking for a New Yorker collection, I asked of an earnest-looking assistant where I might find the humour section. Peering over her granny glasses, she enquired, Humour studies would that be, sir?
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It is humor's job to laugh at the futility oft engendered by the improbable; but it is poetry's job to dream of the potentiality of that which is not impossible.
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There is a satire that exists in 'My Arm,' but there is also an honoring of some of the stronger ideas that I've raided from visual art.
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Really, I protest
what is left for the satirical mind to invent when reality so surpasses it?
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Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.
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Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.
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Satire is a composition of salt and mercury; and it depends upon the different mixture and preparation of those ingredients, that it comes out a noble medicine, or a rank poison.
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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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An ideology critique that does not clearly accept its identity as satire can, however, easily be transformed from an instrument in the search for truth into one of dogmatism. All too often, it interferes with the capacity for dialogue instead of opening up new paths for it.
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I realised that all one really had to do was just observe. Observe and slightly exaggerate, and you had comedy. Instead of creating a mythical premise for a stupid joke, I found playing off truth got the best result.
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Plagiarism is not only wrong, it's spelled funny, okay.
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Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers.
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Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.
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Comedians are innately programmed to pick up oddities like mispronounced words, upside-down books on a shelf, and generally undetectable mistakes in everyday life.
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People write a lot of similar material. That's why I try to come up with the most absurd jokes.
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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal,