My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
AL YANKOVICI’ve done a movie and a TV series, and someday I’d like to do a successful movie and a successful TV series. That would be nice.
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Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they’re not all good!
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I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children’s book was something that I’d been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of 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 don’t really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I’ve never been to therapy so there’s probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don’t know.
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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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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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Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.
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I’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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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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That’s a big part of my life – doing things that I’m not prepared to do.
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I’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.
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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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It doesn’t take a military genius to see we’ll all be crispy critters after World War III.
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As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.
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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’s hard to say, I picked one of my favorite articles for the MAD vault. Which is one of the features of the Magazine so they don’t have to actually pay artists or writers to come up with new stuff.
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So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
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I don’t watch a lot of other people’s parodies because I don’t want to be unduly influenced.
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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
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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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Like, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you’ll be watching TV, and it’ll be interrupted by some tragic event, and you’ll actually find yourself thinking,
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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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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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Somebody will come up to me after a show and have me sign their arm, and the next time I see them my autograph has been permanently inscribed on their arm.
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Doing things that I don’t know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them.
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You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.
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