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 YANKOVICHe died a long painful death. However, you’ll be happy to hear that just a few years later he was reincarnated as Shirley MacLaine.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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’m just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.
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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise. I mean, I don’t write for kids.
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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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You still have Top 40 radio now, but it’s 40 different stations. There aren’t many hits that everybody knows, and there aren’t many real superstars.
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I’d like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them.
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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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I’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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There are probably a few library fines I haven’t paid yet, but I’m a pretty clean-cut guy overall.
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Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.
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Maybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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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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