It is Method Acting, since a successful parodist must live himself, imaginatively, into his parody.
The parodist Donald Ogden Stewart wrote a burlesque of Emily Post called Perfect Behavior, starting with his definition: "The perfect gentleman is he who never unintentionally .
The true parodist must do more than spoof superficial oddities and quirks of style; he must reach the deeper eccentricities of attitude, summon the author's familiar spirit and .