I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery.
“I was seeing this girl recently and used to call her up saying I missed her. I can't help it after a few drinks!”
“But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants.”