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You fake something until you're good at it.
Al Yankovic
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Al Yankovic
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 23
Actor
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I'd rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.
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There's a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody. There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea. Some songs are too repetitive for me to be able to fashion a humorous set of lyrics around. Some songs flat-out just don't work creatively for me.
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Maybe I'll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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I'll be mellow when I'm dead.
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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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When I go to my live shows it's often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
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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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Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
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People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.
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By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
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When I started out, I didn't feel like I was really accepted in the music or comedy communities, and I was somewhere on the edge, but now I feel like I'm accepted in both, which is extremely gratifying.
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I start with a comprehensive list of all the recent songs that have been big hits - and then I go down that list and see if I can come up with funny ideas for them. I can always come up with ideas, but not necessarily good ones!
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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that's not me.
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I like to think that I've gotten better at what I do. I spend more time and pay more attention to detail album after album. But pretty much it's stayed the same.
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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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