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Right now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.

Al Yankovic

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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Around Bookstore Fan Find Huge Issue Life Magazine Old Scour Revolve
I’ll be mellow when I’m dead.
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Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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Big Chunk Dinner Dirt Every Night Reality
The window doesn’t open, the fan is broke, and my face is turning blue. I haven’t been in a crowd like this since I went to see the Who.
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Ace Blue Broke Crowd Fan Open Since Turn Window
Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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I’ve learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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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 think that was the genesis of my polka medleys, because every rock song I played on the accordion just sounded like a polka and my friends thought it was funny.
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I’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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One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don’t realize there’s a lot of craft behind the comedy.
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Band Comedy One Overlook Peeve Pet Problem Realize Same Sometimes Talent
I have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes.
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At this point I’ve got a bit of a track record. So people realize that when ‘Weird Al’ wants to go parody, it’s not meant to make them look bad… it’s meant to be a tribute.
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It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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Difficult Friend Player Rock Teenager
So that’s why one of my rules of parody writing is that it’s gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.
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I’d rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.
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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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Right now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.

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