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 YANKOVICI can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise. I mean, I don’t write for kids.
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It’s very much a “Weird Al” themed issue, so I’d like to think that there’s a lot of “Weird Al” flavor throughout but I think it’d be generous really to call me an editor.
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I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.
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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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The music has always been my bread and butter, and I’ve focused more of my attention on that.
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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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When I swore that you’re getting more and more beautiful everyday. Well, I was only kidding, honey.
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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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I like to think that I’ve gotten better at what I do. I spend more time and pay more attention to detail album after album. But pretty much it’s stayed the same.
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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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I am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.
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Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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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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It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.
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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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So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.
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Kind of wish I was dead. Maybe, I’ll blow my brains out, mama, or maybe I’ll go bowling.
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I do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it’s very difficult to figure out where I fit.
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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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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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If money can’t buy happiness, then I guess I’ll have to rent it.
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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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As a wise man once said, “April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people’s heads.”
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Because 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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