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People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’

Al Yankovic

You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
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Block Kid Kids New Play Scholar Some
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
A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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Artist Supportive Year
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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Around Creatively Humorous Lyric Repetitive Some Song
If money can’t buy happiness, then I guess I’ll have to rent it.
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Buy Happiness Guess Money Rent Sassy
Maybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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Belly Button Color Huge Maybe Social Taboo
I’ve learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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Effectively Filter Learn Pretty Spam Use
Many years ago I found out something about hamburgers that really grossed me out. You may not know this, so I hope I don’t make you sick, but it turns out hamburgers are actually made out of dead cows.
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Gross Hamburger Many Out Sick Something Year
My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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Book Decison Enetr Parody Personal Read
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.
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Always Character Drawback Easily Enunciate People Pretty Recognize Seem Tenth Voice
I am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.
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Discover Entirely Gave Make Meat Needless Soon Up
And then I’ll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
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Arrange Cohesive Semi Story Try Way
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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Articulate Enough Idea Make Movie Parameter Song
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 Clever Enough Good Ostensibly Parody Song Think
I’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.
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Comedy Geek Important Inside Thing
Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I’d just be another guy in L.A. with a movie script in his drawer.
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Another Better Chance Drawer Guy Movie Script

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