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

I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak. Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.

I see parody as another form of comedy.

When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio level.

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.

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.

I haven't had a lot of comedy come my way as a performer.

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.

If you do something that is not gags and punchlines and is character-based, where there are no jokes as such, then it all has to come from a place of truth, and I love that - I love nothing more than getting very serious about my comedy.