Bill Hicks Quotes

I'm actually not making fun of my real parents. I've taken stereotypical traits of my real parents, my aunts, my uncles and parents of every race and put them into these two characters, who are just over-the-top ridiculous and super-alpha parents about everything.

One of the first comic things you do is imitate.

Is not parody the eternal lot of man?

I was never really an impressionist. If there was somebody within my range, maybe I could work on it and do a little exaggeration of them - which I think is really the way to do an impression.

You can parody almost anything.

When I was a child, I was referred to as the Danny Kaye of the family, because I was always impersonating and mimicking people. I was a song and dance man.

Yes, it's true, I've been called the Laurence Olivier of spoofs. I guess that would make Laurence Olivier the Leslie Nielsen of Shakespeare.

I like all Jim Carrey films. They're really funny.

I didn't necessarily set out to think of a show to make fun of reality shows.

With Twitter, it's a little harder to tell jokes that somebody hasn't heard already. You have all these people out there sharing their opinions and telling jokes in real time, and by the time you get on, somebody's already done some version of what you're trying to do.

Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.

I see parody as another form of comedy.

Oftentimes, what seems to be a street lunatic charging at me spouting gibberish turns out to be a devoted 'Simpsons' fan quoting their favorite line.

The Simpsons are ugly-looking, and they should be. That's what works. That's one of the things that's funny.

I'm not an impersonator. I'm a lousy impersonator, actually.

I think impersonation is a great art. It's something that I enjoy doing, in a frivolous and lighthearted way. But I don't flatter myself to think I'm an impersonator.

Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.

I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke.

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

Certainly early on, I kind of modeled myself after Steve Martin and Bill Murray. I would imitate them sometimes.

I did theatrical caricatures.

My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney's sarcastic black maid. We could call it 'Mammy & Me.'

I can't get too offended when somebody parodies me.

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

I don't know if you have ever seen the Woody Allen film 'Annie Hall,' but it is, in a way, to Los Angeles and 'Hollywood' what 'This Is Spinal Tap' is to many musicians.