For a couple awhile back, I wrote a lot of parodies. I don't know where it came from and when the reason disappeared, I stopped writing them and I haven't written any songs, comic or otherwise, or verse since then. It was great fun while it lasted, though. The reward is if a parody gets a chuckle; I don't think one can expect much more than that, beyond the pleasure of writing it.

They were hardly ever parodies of the songs themselves. In fact, I like nearly all of the songs that I used as the basis of the parodies. A big part of the pleasure of parodies is finding rhymes and fitting the verse to the different patterns used in different songs. It really makes one appreciate a well-constructed song (Gilbert O'Sullivan's "Alone Again", for example).

I sometimes like other people's parodies ((like Homer and Jethro's), but not usually in large doses.