I’m a music fan, and I can listen to the radio, or music, without thinking, “How am I going to screw this up?” [Laughs] If I’m really actively trying to think of a parody, then I’ll have my antenna out, and be a little more proactive about it.
AL YANKOVICIt’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.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I’ll bet every great thinker and leader we’ve got Could see all kinds of things other people could not!
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I tend to enunciate pretty well. It’s always seemed that my voice is one of those voices that people can recognize pretty easily – which has been a bit of a drawback for some characters.
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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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I know I’m a million times as humble as thou art!
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Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
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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 was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
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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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Some songs are too repetitive for me to be able to fashion a humorous set of lyrics around. Some songs flat-out just don’t work creatively for me.
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As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.
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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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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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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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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’ve always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That’s something that I’ve been proactive about.
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