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.
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I see parody as another form of comedy.
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'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery.
I think to simply make fun of something isn't particularly interesting. I try to not just do a parody of something or belittle something or disparage something.
That is the problem with comedy in India. Spoofing sells. Come up with original comedy about the hilarious nation we are, with funny accents and odd rituals, and we get into trouble.
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.
You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.
I never like to do parodies. I never do. It's just not my style of comedy.
My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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