Parody

however it was a puny little curious bell with a tongue of its own now clacking for a charity sermon and curiously mr brown thinks a charity sermon always edifies him with the headache and is doubtful about going as they make him a reluctant giver for mere vain show but he curiously wonders where the decamps go and curiously Victoria and Albert meet at the gate, and, curiously, the family pew at St. Stiff's seems capable of accommodating them.

Mr. Spoof, the little organist being perched up aloft, sees through the curtain the Christmas holly and the captain, taking care to mark that individual with mental chalk.

the musician's eyes are in the brown pew but the eyes that used to meet them are turned another way all favour is centred upon their spurious exotic who grows thicker twines tighter and takes deeper root the more he is encouraged of the species or genus we cannot do better than quote mr b s own words written against december twenty third sunday whilst the waits as usual were serenading the semi-detached in a full conviction of its being monday and the possibility of living and loving together and being happy yet to church with my new tenant, who is delightful company.

Lady Lucree says he is a refined duck, a gentlemanly angel, and a manly poppet, to which I made answer that I thought so too, and that she was a seraphine concert.

Brown is more merry than particular, taking Newgate Market in his way home to Mislington from the change.

having a great veneration for old customs he buys a boar's head there and boy to carry it next being taken with a crockery shop sign the little basin which by the by was a very large one he purchases that also thinking it will do for a wassail boat likewise some holly and an old butcher's block to serve as the yule log not forgetting the last new christmas book of sympathy and sentiment the black beetle on the hob a fairy tale of a register stove by the author of the old hearth broom and the kettle holder with these articles mr brown and his retinue reach home in safety a miracle considering the toast and ale they have consumed the holly being jolly the basin groggy the log stupid and the boar pig-headed they find victoria deaf for mr brown has made her little gothic door to shiver and the bolts to chatter with the blows yet none respond for the servants are very jovial over boiled ale in the crypt little thinking or caring about their master who after having rung all the bells singly walked backwards surveyed the windows tumbled over the block and endangered the wassail bowl tries ringing all the bells at once without avail so enters by the back window and performs a dexterous somerset down the stairs in company with some evergreens and a flower-stand ending in a series of double knocks performed upon the inside of the door with the back of his head and a cuffing from mr brown junior who happens to be coming in with the key taking his respected governor for a burglar the browns are next door victoria is fraternising with albert and both are exceedingly happy although the latter has won greatly at the game of speculation having played his cards well so mr brown after being packed in brown paper steeped in vinegar and well soda watered joins the social party finding captain de camp busy concocting an extraordinary oriental mixture the name of which we quite forget out of old bottles from victoria's cellar and telling a tremendous eastern story of a tiger captured in a jungle after a chase of ten hours he should have said minutes in a penny magazine mr brown and the captain soon became familiar in twenty minutes you would have thought them friends of twenty years so before the last speculator had invested his last weekly sixpence in a goose club and drawn the last adamantine old gander or the last christmas pudding sweep swept away the chimerical puddings that ought to have been very rich and everybody thought everybody else had won before the last trader who had sold out dared to mount a notice intimating that he had joined an association to suppress christmas boxes the browns and decamps had attained that state denominated thick an appellation that might with propriety have been applied to mr brown's brains for he had obliged captain de camp by discounting a bill due twelve days after date christmas and had invited him to dine on the morrow to partake of the poultry that always came up at christmas from plumpsworth and was taken out in a visit made by the worthy donor great uncle clayclod during the may meetings when he does a dozen shilling exhibitions in a day and knocks up a fly-horse so rather late to bed mr brown making up his diary as usual on the dressing-table a rule he always observed though in some cases it would have been better left until the morning for against december twenty fourth tuesday we find his feelings richly expressed in cramped calligraphy upside down bearing evident marks of excitement having been penned in a dream with hair-dye mistaken for ink pounced with carmine and blotted with the small tooth comb in lieu of paper It is, moreover, curious for its allegorical allusions, likening Captain de Camp to a brick, a downy card, a sharp file, and several other inanimate poetical images.

Of our mild friend Spoof, he is sleeping soundly upon a light supper obtained from St. Stiff's Dairy.

some very thin milk divested of all unctuous quality that having gone to an epicure captain at the albert villa Poor Spoof's talent has not put many talents in his purse.

Yeah, I mean, look, there's no doubt that Chevy Chase is, uh, quite a polarizing figure in himself.

I mean, there's a lot of people who, you know, loved Chevy for many years, including his time on Saturday Night Live and going on to all the Lampoon movies.

But he's, uh, you know, had a weird history with the show since leaving as a cast member after 30 episodes.

And, you know, you never would have thought that that would have been his story at the show when you're watching this in episode seven because what you had seen up until this point is a guy who really could have changed the name of the show to The Chevy Chase Show.

So let's get back to Andy Robin.

You went to Harvard and you became the editor by your junior year of the Harvard Lampoon.

That just means that you're one of the writers.

Most of the people on the Lampoon were editor.

We did have a little bit of a leadership thing that I was a part of, but it was a pretty egalitarian place.

Everybody was kind of doing the same thing.

It happened to be one of the very few times they were allowing just people to toss stuff in and they were actually just reading samples.

if you had any kind of connection.

So yeah, we'll see.

Obviously based off of the original Spoof series called Get Smart from Mel Brooks and Buck Henry that debuted in 1967.

Very much taking on the James Bond of it all.

What if James Bond was a tickle? Yeah, do we need this again? No.

They were being criticized.

Parodic, of course.

Yes.

So let's move over, David, to news of Gavin Newsom.

Mm-hmm.

doesn't get you where you need to go jack daniels you're selling billions of bottles of booze this isn't a food product it's not a food and maybe if it was if this was something that people were eating or drinking we might we might be able to get there but this is a dog toy and it is actually a parody so what parody still matters Parody still matters.

It's not the only factor.

A parody does not in and of itself get a pass, but it is a factor.

And because of that factor, we don't get there.

Yeah.

Parody in the truest sense.

And like you said, the products are different enough.

He was very popular because he had a happy disposition and he was very genuine in making you feel that you were much funnier than he was.

And that was natural and real in due course, he made, as we say, the Lampoon.

And he became president of the Harvard Lampoon.

And at least three of the issues of the Lampoon during his presidency went into a large number of extra editions.

They were unusually amusing and received national acclaim.

and it was his regime that put the Harvard Lampoon back onto its feet.

Another long and exceptionally rewarding friendship was formed when Benchley met Glorious Williams, who was later to illustrate all of his books.

Mr. Williams recalls,