Is parody always a poem or a song lyric? Can it just be a article?

Question

Is parody always a poem or a song lyric? Can it just be a article?

Answer 1

A parody can be anything. Almost every skit on SNL (at least when it was worth watching) was a parody of something.   Most of everything Mel Brooks wrote was a parody of something.

Answer 2

There is a "news" paper called the Onion that is parody.

It has funny (although sometimes tawdry) articles.

Answer 3

It can be an article. What Mad magazine does are parodies