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BUSINESS NEWS
THE UNITED STATE OF THE
PORN PARODY
And the movies were funny. In This Ain’t The Munsters XXX
(2008, Hustler Video), as Herman pulls the monster meat of
his pants, Lily looks horrified and yells, “That’s the nastiest
thing I’ve ever seen!” Herman says, “You really like it?” And
who could forget Evan Stone’s “acting” in This Ain’t Star Trek
XXX (2009, Hustler Video), as Captain Kirk yells frantically
to Lieutenant Uhura, as she blows him, “Keep going or
we’re all going to die!” then pushes her head down on the
Captain’s log.
The “golden age of porn parodies” started in the mid-
2000s—one early standout was Will Ryder’s Not the Bradys
XXX, released in 2007 by Hustler Video. In 2009, AVN
added a parody category to the AVN Awards and soon had
to split the award into “drama” and “comedy” categories
because there were so many parodies. In the middle of a
recession, porn parodies came to the rescue, with some
budgets exceeding $100,000.
WE WILL KEEP MAKING
PARODIES AS LONG AS
PEOPLE WANT TO WATCH
THEM. LUCKY FOR US, THAT DOESN’T SEEM TO
BE SLOWING DOWN
ANYTIME SOON.
—LEE ROY MYERS
I DON’T GO AFTER
PEOPLE WHO
HABITUALLY WATCH
PORN; MY CUSTOMER
BASE ARE FANS
OF THE ORIGINAL
MOVIES
—AXEL BRAUN
SEXPLORATIONS | By Anka Radakovich
Myers, before the latter went on to start Woodrocket.com.
And preceding them was Cash Markman, who wrote his
first spoof in 1986. Today’s superhero spoofs can’t compete
with the great names of older porn parodies, however, with
names like Shaving Ryan’s Privates, Lawrence of Labia, Ferris
Bueller’s Jack Off, The Empire Strokes Back, Indiana Jones and The
Temple of Poon and The DaVinci Load.
PORN PARODIES HAVE EXISTED since the
Porn Parodies Lose Their Erection
beginning of porn, but where do they stand
now?
During the recession in 2009, when
I’LL, NEVER DO A PORN PARODY AGAIN. I LIKE
Today, porn parodies are petering out, especially in
quantity. Earlier this year AVN almost dropped porn
parodies as a award category, though that decision
adult DVD sales were cut in half, porn
TELLING AN ENJOYABLE
was revisited when it became clear there was a field of
parodies were one of the few adult genres
STORY AND REALISTIC
competitive titles to nominate for the 2018 AVN Awards.
that maintained a throbbing erection. New
Sensations, Vivid Video, Hustler Video and
COMEDY IS WHAT’S NEW.”
(It’s worth noting that a new AVN Award category was
added, Best Action/Thriller, signifying a genre that the
Digital Playground all had big-budget porn
—WILL RYDER
awards committee expects to see more of in the future.)
parodies in production. Batman XXX, Zorro
“I’ll, never do a porn parody again,” director Will Ryder
XXX, This Ain’t Star Trek and The Addams
said. Ryder, whose first big parody, Not The Bradys XXX,
Family XXX discovered a cross-over audience
was made in 2007, said he now making “adult romantic
who never watched porn before.
comedies.” He explained, “I like telling an enjoyable story,”
According to Hustler Video, Star Trek XXX,
and “realistic comedy is what’s new.” His latest, Bad Babes
made in 2009, was the biggest-selling video
Inc., was released in September by Adam & Eve Pictures.
in the company’s history. Thousands of
“We shot with three fantastic new-fangled cameras with a
fanatic Star Trek geeks went apeshit watching
lot of doohickeys, bells and whistles, and approached this
their favorite characters getting it on with
project with a cinematic, television perspective,” Ryder
each other.
added.
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According to director Axel Braun, whose superhero porn
parodies have garnered the veteran director multiple AVN
Awards, “My first parody was This Ain’t Happy Days for
Hustler, back in 2009. I grew up watching the TV shows,
and I thought it was a perfect fit for a sexy spoof. That
movie took my career to a whole new level.”
Though Hustler Video got in on the first wave of parodies,
other studios joined in, including Adam & Eve Pictures and
New Sensations, both collaborating with Ryder and Lee Roy
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