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The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I've parodied over the years.
Al Yankovic
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Al Yankovic
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 23
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Not any specific one, but I was a huge fan of Frank Jacobs, I guess he wrote the plurality of the song parodies for MAD, Sam Hart, a few others, but that was also where I was first exposed to the art form of song parodies.
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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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You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.
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I'm an ugly girl, My face makes you hurl, Sad I have it, I should bag it. Acne everywhere, Unwanted facial hair. I'm a relation to Frankenstein's creation.
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I don't like to label myself. I know I'm very hard to pigeonhole.
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I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children's book was something that I'd been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.
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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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I've always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it! Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I'd just be another guy in L.A. with a movie script in his drawer.
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He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.
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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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He died a long painful death. However, you'll be happy to hear that just a few years later he was reincarnated as Shirley MacLaine.
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It's hard to force creativity and humor.
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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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As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.
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I'm obviously not a rapper, and I don't have any claims to be one, really.
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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 know now that everything I write, I'm going to put out, and I'll have to live with it for the rest of my life.
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I decided that I wanted to be a voice on every animated cartoon in the history of the world - even shows that haven't been on the air for a very long time, that's going to be harder to pull off.
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I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.
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I've learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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