Bruce McCall Quotes

Everything can be satirized.

I see parody as another form of comedy.

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

Humor is a powerful tool, and some of these politicians are so far out and easy to lampoon. They just provide such delicious opportunity.

That's what I love about 'MADtv': If you exist, if you breathe, we will take you down.

Is not parody the eternal lot of man?

For such is the fate of parody: it must never fear exaggerating. If it strikes home, it will only prefigure something that others will then do without a smile--and without a blush--in steadfast virile seriousness.

The thing about Donald [Trump] is the jokes write themselves. I don't even think of it to be trolling. What he says is the joke.

The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

With anything you put out there, you're going to offend somebody, but most people get that it's a joke, that I'm playing a character, and that I'm actually making fun of what I'm saying by saying it.

I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.

Parody is homage gone sour.

Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.

Satire also allows you to make fun of every different aspect. It allows you to make fun of both sides. It allows you to make fun of everything, really, so you can do it in a harmless way.

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.

In a satire, you need foolishness.

The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God.

In comedy, falling means laughter. You can take something sacred and make it silly. The more sacred it is, the funnier it is. It has a bigger drop to fall.

There is parody, when you make fun of people who are smarter than you; satire, when you make fun of people who are richer than you; and burlesque, when you make fun of both while taking your clothes off.

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

One parody is worth a thousand polemics.

Smart writers never understand why their satires on our town are never successful. What they refuse to accept is that you can't satirize a satire.

Satire is what closes on Saturday night.