Satire and Parody are two literary devices that for many seem one and the same yet have key differences. Satire is defined as a device that utilizes irony, sarcasm, ridicule, to critique people, groups and/or society as a whole. Parody is more concentrated on author’s styles’, individual works and/or genre cliché. These differences are most notable when comparing 2006’s Poultrygheist: Night of the Chicken Dead, a social satire directed by Lloyd Kauffman, and 2007’s Hot Fuzz, a cop movie parody directed by Edgar Wright. Poultrygheist follows Arbie, a down on his luck nerdy teenager, starting the rest of his life working at a KFC knockoff built on a Native American burial ground. All is moderately fine until the dead possess the consumers turning them into half human half chicken zombies.  Surprisingly, doesn’t focus too much in ridiculing its two namesakes. Ridicule of modern consumerist society takes center stage in its stead, in particular, being: chain fast food work culture, the then newly acquired celebrity status of Subway’s Jared Fogle and hypocrisies in how many activists and protesters operate. The film is extremely raunchy and never takes itself seriously, even managing to break out into musical segments from time to time. Hot Fuzz, on the other hand, aims to make fun of nearly every cop movie cliche instead of societal flaws. We are first introduced to by the books London supercop Nicholas Angel getting transferred to the town with the lowest crime in all of England. He soon partners up with an overweight rookie cop named Danny who spends most of his time watching Hollywood cop movie. They soon uncover a dark secret of the town and face absurd adversities. All throughout the movie the relationship of the duo contrast the hollywood perception of being a cop to the reality of the job. At one point they even spend an evening drinking and watching classic buddy cop movies. To put it simply,

Poultrygheist follows Arbie, a down on his luck nerdy teenager, starting the rest of his life working at a KFC knockoff built on a Native American burial ground. All is moderately fine until the dead possess the consumers turning them into half human half chicken zombies.  Surprisingly, doesn’t focus too much in ridiculing its two namesakes. Ridicule of modern consumerist society takes center stage in its stead, in particular, being: chain fast food work culture, the then newly acquired celebrity status of Subway’s Jared Fogle and hypocrisies in how many activists and protesters operate. The film is extremely raunchy and never takes itself seriously, even managing to break out into musical segments from time to time. Hot Fuzz, on the other hand, aims to make fun of nearly every cop movie cliche instead of societal flaws. We are first introduced to by the books London supercop Nicholas Angel getting transferred to the town with the lowest crime in all of England. He soon partners up with an overweight rookie cop named Danny who spends most of his time watching Hollywood cop movie. They soon uncover a dark secret of the town and face absurd adversities. All throughout the movie the relationship of the duo contrast the hollywood perception of being a cop to the reality of the job. At one point they even spend an evening drinking and watching classic buddy cop movies.

Hot Fuzz, on the other hand, aims to make fun of nearly every cop movie cliche instead of societal flaws. We are first introduced to by the books London supercop Nicholas Angel getting transferred to the town with the lowest crime in all of England. He soon partners up with an overweight rookie cop named Danny who spends most of his time watching Hollywood cop movie. They soon uncover a dark secret of the town and face absurd adversities. All throughout the movie the relationship of the duo contrast the hollywood perception of being a cop to the reality of the job. At one point they even spend an evening drinking and watching classic buddy cop movies.

To put it simply, Though both aim to make fun of existing entities, satire ridicules reality, while parody riducules literary and artistic products. These differrences are accentuated by comparing the focuses of these two comedies. Poultrygheist makes fun of american consumerist culture and anticulture while Hot Fuzz points out the exagerations of Hollywood cop movies.