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I'm watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.

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Al Yankovic
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 23
Actor
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Music Video Director
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Downey
California
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When I go to my live shows it's often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
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Sometimes I get, Have you ever thought about doing real music? I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.
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It's hard to force creativity and humor.
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I do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it's very difficult to figure out where I fit.
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I don't want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that's more my personal taste.
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It's hard to say, I picked one of my favorite articles for the MAD vault. Which is one of the features of the Magazine so they don't have to actually pay artists or writers to come up with new stuff.
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What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist's performance on whether or not they had a good seat?
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In the '80s, I was the only game in town, I was the only one getting that kind of exposure in any rotation on MTV. Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they're not all good!
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I tend to enunciate pretty well. It's always seemed that my voice is one of those voices that people can recognize pretty easily - which has been a bit of a drawback for some characters because you're supposed to lose yourself in the character, but sometimes people look at a character and go Oh, it's 'Weird Al.'
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It's hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.
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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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I think I'm equally as abusive as the editors normally are for the Letters and Tomatoes column, which is the fan mail part of MAD Magazine and an ongoing feature.
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I don't think there are any new media I'd like to cover.
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Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I'm praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.
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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don't realize there's a lot of craft behind the comedy.
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I've always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That's something that I've been proactive about.
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So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.
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As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.
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I do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.
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