The most common form of parody is, of course, self-parody. It is a disease to which every columnist is prone, for it is always easier to reassemble the usual range of columnar emotions – outrage, pity, etc – than to feel them afresh.


Spectator, 22 November 1999

Craig Brown Quotes

The most common form of parody is, of course, self-parody. It is a disease to which every columnist is prone, for it is always easier to reassemble...

The most common form of parody is, of course, self-parody. It is a disease to which every columnist is prone, for it is always easier to reassemble...

The most common form of parody is, of course, self-parody. It is a disease to which every columnist is prone, for it is always easier to reassemble...

The most common form of parody is, of course, self-parody. It is a disease to which every columnist is prone, for it is always easier to reassemble...