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.
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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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I don’t watch anything on a regular basis – I tend to binge-watch things.
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A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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He died a long painful death. However, you’ll be happy to hear that just a few years later he was reincarnated as Shirley MacLaine.
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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 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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Sometimes I get, “Have you ever thought about doing real music?” I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.
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I try to pick songs that I actually like because I realize that I have to live with these songs for a long time, from when I’m working on them in the studio to possibly playing them onstage for the rest of my life.
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I love the way they run in fright when I turn on the kitchen light. And when I squish them on the ground, they make a pleasant crunchy sound.
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I have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes.
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There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.
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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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As it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.
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After that, I made the decision to headline no matter what, even if I was playing to seven people. I wanted people to be there to see me.
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