I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing.
AL YANKOVICYou slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.
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I’m an ugly girl, My face makes you hurl, Sad I have it, I should bag it. Acne everywhere, Unwanted facial hair. I’m a relation to Frankenstein’s creation.
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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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Maybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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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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I’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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Right now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.
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My own personal tastes don’t really have an effect on whether song is a parody target or not. But having said that,
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I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, ‘OK, this is what I’m going to do for a living and I’m going to be Weird Al.’
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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
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I do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.
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You can try on our suede underwear if you choose. Do what you want, but don’t step on my blue suede shoes.
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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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I’m always a little leery about doing shows where I’m not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and got pelted for 45 minutes.
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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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People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.
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