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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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Film Director
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Downey
California
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It fit pretty nicely into my schedule because we'd pretty much finished the bulk of promotion for Mandatory Fun and were just getting geared up for the World Tour so this was a nice time for me to be working on it.
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I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
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It's hard to force creativity and humor.
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I don't like to label myself. I know I'm very hard to pigeonhole.
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I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never been to therapy so there's probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don't know.
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I've learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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Right now I'm listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT'S MY JOB.
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You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
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Many years ago I found out something about hamburgers that really grossed me out. You may not know this, so I hope I don’t make you sick, but it turns out hamburgers are actually made out of dead cows. I am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.
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I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes.
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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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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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I'll bet every great thinker and leader we've got Could see all kinds of things other people could not! So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
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You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.
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I was a huge fan of 'Mad' magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I'd scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I'd wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.
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If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I'd love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now.
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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that's not me.
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Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.
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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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In a genre where most of the artists are one-hit wonders, I've been able to hang around longer than most serious acts. I pride myself in being a very talented leech.
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