Parodies
- VH1 parodied the video for Numb as a promo for The New WKRP in Cincinnati. Richard Sanders (aka Les Nessman) sat in Edge's place and rambled out the lyrics to the show's opening theme song much the same way Edge does the lyrics to Numb, while the rest of the show's cast did the odd, random things to him.
- Parody writer "Weird Al" Yankovic performed a parody of the song on television by donning a hat similar to The Edge's, sitting in front of a black background, and reciting verses from the book Green Eggs and Ham as the song's lyrics while having the strange things from the original video happen to him.
- Irish children's TV puppet Dustin The Turkey released a parody of the song in 1994.
- Mike Myers and Dana Carvey, in character as Wayne and Garth respectively, inserted themselves into the video on a 1993 MTV special promoting the upcoming Wayne's World 2. Garth stared straight into the camera and was lipsynching Edge's part, while Wayne performs various gags using Garth's head.
- French Canadian comedians Les Bleu Poudres made a French language parody of the video, entitled "Bum".
- In the Philippines, the music channel, Myx parodied the video to promote their 24 hour U2 marathon. The video starring the Myx VJs Luis Manzano, Nikki Gil and Iya Villana
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“The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)