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.
AL YANKOVICIt was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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I’m stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.
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I always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I’ll catch up.
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I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.
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I was a huge fan of ‘Mad’ magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I’d scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I’d wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.
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I’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.
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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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The music has always been my bread and butter, and I’ve focused more of my attention on that.
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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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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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As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it’s been a huge promotional tool for me.
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There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
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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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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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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.
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I think I’m equally as abusive as the editors normally are for the “Letters and Tomatoes” column, which is the fan mail part of MAD Magazine and an ongoing feature.
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If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I’d love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now.
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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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There aren’t that many superstars around anymore.
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I’ve always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it!
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I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I’ll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points.
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As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.
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I’ve always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That’s something that I’ve been proactive about.
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I’m obviously not a rapper, and I don’t have any claims to be one, really.
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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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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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