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Al Yankovic
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 23
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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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He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.
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I'm just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.
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I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing. I think that was the genesis of my polka medleys, because every rock song I played on the accordion just sounded like a polka and my friends thought it was funny. So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.
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How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you're doing?
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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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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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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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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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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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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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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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People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.
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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.
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Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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In fact, when I come up with an idea for a parody I try to resist the urge to Google the idea to see if someone has done it already because the answer is almost always, Yes, of course they have, they've thought of it!
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You can try on our suede underwear if you choose. Do what you want, but don't step on my blue suede shoes.
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