![]() If not done well, parody can become “look how dumb this thing is!” For instance, when South Park parodied the Hardy Boys, they did so by yet again poking fun at the “Golly jeepers” and “Gee whizzes!” without adding anything new. To me, good parody comes from taking an unknown facet of something and pulling on that until the original is barely identifiable but actually saying something true about the original work. It’s very hard to make a joke about something everyone already sees as a joke. The humor focused on Frank and Joe saying “Jeepers” a lot and how they had never kissed girls. ![]() It was probably called something like “Hardy Boys Today” and was about how downright square and uncool Frank and Joe Hardy were. I don’t remember what it was called or who wrote it, but since it was a proven winner people performed it a lot. One “successful” adaptation was a “humorous” interpretation of the Hardy Boys. Here’s the point: there were always a few adaptations that seemed to score well with the judges in HI. ![]() I looked for something else I could do as a solo and came across an event called “Humorous Interpretation” - an event where individuals performed short humor pieces, often adaptations of “funny” plays with the performer (me), performing both parts. Since I was the last of my friends to join (plus, since there was an odd number of us), I wasn’t able to join their four-person debate team. In an attempt to both tag along with my friends and to overcome my crippling fear of speaking in public, I joined my high school’s Speech & Debate team.
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