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How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you're doing?
Al Yankovic
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Al Yankovic
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 23
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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak. Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
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I don't watch a lot of other people's parodies because I don't want to be unduly influenced.
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In fact, when I come up with an idea for a parody I try to resist the urge to Google the idea to see if someone has done it already because the answer is almost always, Yes, of course they have, they've thought of it!
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