Homage and Parody
The later British double act Armstrong & Miller parodied Flanders and Swann: their parodies begin superficially like a typical Flanders and Swann performance, their songs descending from innocence to bawdy or taboo subjects, often mock-censored for comedic effect.
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Famous quotes containing the words homage and/or parody:
“There is no country in which so absolute a homage is paid to wealth. In America there is a touch of shame when a man exhibits the evidences of large property, as if after all it needed apology. But the Englishman has pure pride in his wealth, and esteems it a final certificate. A coarse logic rules throughout all English souls: if you have merit, can you not show it by your good clothes and coach and horses?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“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 wall above the urinal.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)