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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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I'm still a geek on the inside, that's the important thing.
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Beans, beans, the magic legumes - the more you ingest, the more you consume.
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I don't think there are any new media I'd like to cover.
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As a wise man once said, “April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people's heads.”
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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 have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I’m concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the Internet is severely eating into my album sales and having a decidedly adverse effect on my career. On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!
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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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My process for the parodies is that I get an idea for a song and then get approval from the artist and then go in and record it and probably try to get it out as soon as possible.
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I tend to enunciate pretty well. It's always seemed that my voice is one of those voices that people can recognize pretty easily - which has been a bit of a drawback for some characters because you're supposed to lose yourself in the character, but sometimes people look at a character and go Oh, it's 'Weird Al.'
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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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I'm free to do what I please, I'm probably not going to do albums. Just because I think releasing tracks as singles is a better way for me to stay topical.
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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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I'll be mellow when I'm dead.
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My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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Kind of wish I was dead. Maybe, I'll blow my brains out, mama, or maybe I'll go bowling.
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I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.
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Whenever I do a parody it's not meant to make you hate anybody's music really.
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If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.
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In the '80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear - that if I didn't, people would soon forget about me.
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