Parody Examples

Parody is a piece of writing that imitates another piece of writing, or an author's style, to produce humor. The purpose of a parody is humor. There is no aim to try to bring about any type of change (as satire would do). A parody is just meant for entertainment.

Saturday Night Live skits often parody politicians and political speeches. Most recently, the show did a skit that was a parody related to Obama's immigration order.

In Sonnet 130, Shakespeare parodies the popular love poetry of the time:

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;

Coral is far more red than her lips' red;

If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;

If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.

I have seen roses damasked, red and white,

But no such roses see I in her cheeks;

And in some perfumes is there more delight

Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.

I love to hear her speak, yet well I know

That music hath a far more pleasing sound;

I grant I never saw a goddess go;

My mistress when she walks treads on the ground.

And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare

As any she belied with false compare.

The Austin Powers movies are a parody of James Bond movies.

There are many modern novels that parody earlier works. For example, Bored of the Rings parodies Tolkein'sLord of the Rings.