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

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 think a lot of the time you just parody yourself.

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

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.

I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.

I love the satire and skewering of comedy writing.

I never like to do parodies. I never do. It's just not my style of comedy.

I think comedy is funnier when it's real.

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.