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Al Yankovic
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 23
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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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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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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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I don't think there are any new media I'd like to cover.
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I don't like to label myself. I know I'm very hard to pigeonhole.
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