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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.

I see parody as another form of comedy.

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.

We live in an age that's very suspicious of preachy political rhetoric, which means that there's room for art that approaches these issues from the side - as satire, as parody, or as a kind of outlandish speculative proposition.

My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.

When you have satire, it has to be real. No matter how outrageous the comedy becomes, you have to believe in the characters.

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

If you do a Western that's funny, there's no way people don't call it a spoof or a parody, even though it may not be.

I parody myself every chance I get. I try to make fun of myself and let people know that I'm a human being, and these things that have happened to me are real. I'm not just some cartoon who exists and suddenly doesn't exist.