Comedy, laughter, criticism. Parody as a critical year in the journal Barcelona offers the reader a thoughtful look on an object until now unexplored: the magazine Barcelona. The proposal to conceive parody as an effective way to outline a critical analysis introduces a key element: laughter. Are there limits for humor? Is there a banner of "good taste" to prevent making jokes about some topics, such as death, Nazism or abortion? In this paper we will not, the key is to understand humor as a means to criticism and not as an end to entertain the public. The prologue of the comic, laughter, criticism. Parody as a magazine critical exercise in Barcelona is responsible for the founder and former director of the magazine Barcelona, Paul Marchetti.