The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I’ve parodied over the years.
AL YANKOVICI don’t want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones’?’
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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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About four or five months ago, at a dinner in New York, John made the very nice offer of my being guest editor for an issue of MAD and I thought about it for about half a nanosecond and decided that was a pretty good idea.
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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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There aren’t that many superstars around anymore.
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One of the hardest things I’ve had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.
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So I’m one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on ‘The Simpsons,’ which I’m very flattered by.
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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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When I go to my live shows it’s often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
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So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
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Nows the time to go for all the gusto you can grab. You’ll have plenty of time to be low-key when you’re laid out on the slab.
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Ever since the day you left me, I’ve been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.
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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 was able to come up with a couple articles for the magazine, I was able to solicit help from a bunch of my friends to contribute pieces: Patton Oswalt, Seth Green, Emo Phillips, Chris Hardwick, John Hodgman, and more.
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I decided that I wanted to be a voice on every animated cartoon in the history of the world – even shows that haven’t been on the air for a very long time, that’s going to be harder to pull off.
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