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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.

Al Yankovic

There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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Arm Challenge Clever Different Fashion Lot Parody Sign Song
I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.
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Again Bathtub Have Piranhas Problem Relationship
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.
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Candidate Enough Good Idea Ostensibly Parody Song Think
I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
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Abuduct Fair Kind Look Space
Well I’ve made no secret of my life long love of MAD Magazine, it’s probably my first and greatest influence in terms of my comic sensibilities. I’ve known John [Ficarra] for many years, and we’ve been friends.
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Country First Great Influence Mad Made Nice Probably Secret Year
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.
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Career Concern Copyright Download Feel Hand MIxed One Rampant Song
It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
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Creativity Force Hard Humor
A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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Basic Cartoon Natural Variation Voice
I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.
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Actual Best Most Obvious Route Sometimes Try
By the time I’m in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
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Parody Recording Song Studio Time YouTube
Somebody will come up to me after a show and have me sign their arm, and the next time I see them my autograph has been permanently inscribed on their arm.
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Arm Autograph Come Next Permanent Show Somebody Time Up
I try to pick songs that I actually like because I realize that I have to live with these songs for a long time, from when I’m working on them in the studio to possibly playing them onstage for the rest of my life.
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Actual Life Long Onstage Pick Possible Realize Rest Song Studio Time Work
Beans, beans, the magic legumes – the more you ingest, the more you consume.
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Bean Consume Ingest Magic More
Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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Big Chunk Dinner Dirt Every Night Reality
As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.
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Certain Do Fun Kid Something Spend Thought
I’d like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them.
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Able Instead Moment More Release Song Think Timely Topical War

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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