About four or five months ago, at a dinner in New York, John made the very nice offer of my being guest editor for an issue of MAD and I thought about it for about half a nanosecond and decided that was a pretty good idea.
AL YANKOVICBecause 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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Beans, beans, the magic legumes – the more you ingest, the more you consume.
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You don’t need to be defined by your job.
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I’ve learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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I’ll bet every great thinker and leader we’ve got Could see all kinds of things other people could not!
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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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At this point I’ve got a bit of a track record. So people realize that when ‘Weird Al’ wants to go parody, it’s not meant to make them look bad… it’s meant to be a tribute.
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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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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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Like, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you’ll be watching TV, and it’ll be interrupted by some tragic event, and you’ll actually find yourself thinking,
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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 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 can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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There’s enough people that do unfunny music. I’ll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.
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They somehow didn’t see the need for an accordion player. That’s when I realized that I had to find my own path in life.
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I can’t say enough good things about my band. I feel very fortunate that I found them when I did, very early in my career.
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