Definition of Parody

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Parody

A writing in which the language or sentiment of an author is mimicked; especially, a kind of literary pleasantry, in which what is written on one subject is altered, and applied to another by way of burlesque; travesty.

A popular maxim, adage, or proverb.

To write a parody upon; to burlesque.

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Parody Quotations

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
Simone de Beauvoir

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.
Vladimir Nabokov

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

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.
Dawn French

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 to make them look bad... it's meant to be a tribute.
Al Yankovic

I think a lot of the time you just parody yourself.
Dylan Moran

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.
Keenen Ivory Wayans

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.
Daniel Libeskind

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.
Rory Bremner

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

Parody Translations

parody in French is parodie
parody in German is Parodie
parody in Spanish is parodia
parody in Swedish is parodi

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