The Samurai Cat series by Mark E. Rogers.
Splitters!
I take my Holmes canon very seriously, and would never listen to a parody of Sherlock Holmes… except that I did.
Firesign Theater did a brilliant homage: The Tale of the Giant Rat of Sumatra.
iTunes doesn’t have the full album, but the first section is on a “Best Of” (worth buying for their other note-perfect parody: Nick Danger!, a manic send-up of old radio detectives.
So many to choose from, I couldn’t make up my mind–then someone mentioned Lampoon’s Yearbook, and that’s it! The entire oeuvre is available in a single volume, with a 39th anniversary reunion wrap-up, and I like to say it’s one of the great comic novels of the Twentieth Century.
Carol Burnett playing Scarlet, wearing the green velvet drapes with the curtain rod running across her shoulders.
BotR was great.
My man! I’ve said the same thing many times. It can be read, carefully, cover-to-cover.
“I never met a man I didn’t know.”
Firesign Theatre’s takes on the private-eye trope - Nick Danger (part 1)
The Church Of the Subgenius is a brilliant send-up of religion, but not for everyone.
The Pajama Slave Dancers’ parody of over-the-top arena rock, “I Want To Make Love To You” is funny stuff. Rest of the album is good for a chuckle - at least worth the price of admission.
Here’s one I first heard on a reel-to-reel back when I was a small tyke: Homer and Jethro with We Didn’t Sink The Bismark.
What I was going to say.
“I was sad because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no socks.”