1. parody - Noun
2. parody - Verb
A writing in which the language or sentiment of an author is mimicked; especially, a kind of literary pleasantry, in which what is written on one subject is altered, and applied to another by way of burlesque; travesty.
A popular maxim, adage, or proverb.
To write a parody upon; to burlesque.
Source: Webster's dictionarySatire is a lesson, parody is a game. Vladimir Nabokov
It is not a sensible or intelligent response for us in Europe to ridicule American arguments and parody their political leadership. Tony Blair
The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the w. Ernest Hemingway
Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth. Rabindranath Tagore
I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody. Ted Rall
The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it. Jorge Luis Borges