Word: parodist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...woman-middle-aged, with a look that suggests the principal of a girls' day school-performs by herself for two hours. Her name is Anna Rus sell. Her show is called All by Myself, and the box office is selling tickets into August. She is a musical parodist and jokeratura who mocks every conceivable kind of composer, singer and singing style. Her audience comes in two varieties-devoted sectarians, who howl, giggle, and shake with uncontrollable mirth, and innocent theatergoers, who sit dumfounded...
Courts have held that a parodist is infringing on a copyright if he carries the borrowing to excess, but Mad's barely recognizable parodies of the song lyrics, said Kaufman, fell within the traditional "fair use" rule. It could hardly be considered unfair that the Mad versions were cast in the same meter as the original lyrics: "We doubt that even so eminent a composer as Irving Berlin should be permitted to claim a property interest in iambic pentameter...
...province of the satirist. If he's not in the business to overthrow one institution or another; if he's only in the business to poke irreverent but gentle fun, to amuse without biting, to comment without caring then, in my terms, he may be a lampoonist or a parodist or a light humorist, but he's not a satirist. A humorist will hold up a mirror, look at its reflection chuckle warmly and say "Well it's silly but its not such a bad reflection after all"; a satirist will have a darker view. That's why the night...
...children's "alternate sponsor"?Jean Kerr is also overly fond of using the language of television commercials. But she is wary of puns and uses them with care?"Idle roomers beget idle rumors"?preferring to play on people rather than words. For she is a devastating parodist, whether in a single line about "The Confessions of St. Augustine, as told to Gerold Frank," or in the full-sized parodies of Vladimir Nabokov ("To watch Lolita sit at the kitchen table and play jacks was to know what Aristotle meant by pity and terror"), or null Sagan: that timeless...
...only obvious answer is that nobody cares to waste his time doing it. And yet of all times this seems the most appropriate. Scholars are growing stuffy, literary men abnormally intense, and the parodist, almost alone, has the chance to refine and relax this culture with his sublime and useless talent