Who said parody

There were going to be some serious lines for the bathrooms. A real man is like the perfect vampire-boy and all the perfect guys in Twue Wuv. And if someone else was clever enough to write a parody - you know, to privide som comic relief during these extremely difficult economic times - that would probably be an even bigger seller, or at least it shoud be.

So, just come clean with me, Ed. Your secret's safe with me, and whoever reads my internet blog. He laughs and raises his hand to show me the joy-buzzer in his palm. It's us, buster. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings.

Our sins, our souls. Hiss-tih-ree: the tip of the pen taking a trip of three steps with one glide down the chronicle to trap a slick, sibilant character. He was a pig, a plain pig, in the morning, standing five feet ten on one hoof.

He was a pig in slacks. He was a pig in school. He was a pig on the dotted line. Did this pig have a precursor? He did, indeed he did. Demento has a degree in ethnomusicology and is known for his huge, wide-ranging record collection.

Two of those artists worth knowing and delving into are Spike Jones and Tom Lehrer. His parodies were developed out of musical boredom—he and his friends were bored with playing the same American songbook classics night after night, as gigging artists were known to do.

So he started adding in strange sounds and remaking popular songs with a layer of commentary on the sappiness of the compositions. It really takes the seriousness out of Nazism.

Lehrer preferred writing his own original music, for the most part, and his efforts eventually earned him a honorary doctor of music degree from the University of London and a reputation for writing controversial, but wildly popular, songs. It takes a lot of effort, smarts, and gumption to properly wield satire and parody in music. I like to say that my parodies are more of a poke in the ribs than a punch in the face. Originally published on September 8, , last updated on October 22, Music Business.

Return To Blog Home. Generally, courts have balanced the property rights of the plaintiffs against the First Amendment rights of the defendants. Furthermore, as Judge Pierre N. Leval wrote in Yankee Publishing Inc. News America Publishing, Inc. Satire can also come under attack as defamation. The key distinction between satire and defamation is that satire is not meant to be believed by the audience.

Satire is biting, critical, and designed to attack, often with malice. It is almost always false. For example, in Hustler Magazine v. Falwell , Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist , writing for a unanimous court, stated that a parody depicting the Reverend Jerry Falwell as a drunken, incestuous son could not be defamation since it was an obvious parody, not intended as a statement of fact.

To find otherwise, the Court said, was to endanger First Amendment protection for every artist, political cartoonist, and comedian who used satire to criticize public figures.