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.
AL YANKOVICI 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.
AL YANKOVICPop culture’s gotten much more disposable.
AL YANKOVICI don’t watch anything on a regular basis – I tend to binge-watch things.
AL YANKOVICVelvet Elvis never puts on weight.
AL YANKOVICSome people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
AL YANKOVICAbout 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.
AL YANKOVICI 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.
AL YANKOVICI cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing.
AL YANKOVICMany 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.
AL YANKOVICI’ve always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it!
AL YANKOVICThey 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.
AL YANKOVICI’ll be mellow when I’m dead.
AL YANKOVICIt 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.
AL YANKOVICThey do everything from gangsta rap to polka music and every genre in between. It’s amazing.
AL YANKOVICSo I’m one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on ‘The Simpsons,’ which I’m very flattered by.
AL YANKOVICI make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
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