By the time I’m in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
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.
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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When I started out, I didn’t feel like I was really accepted in the music or comedy communities, and I was somewhere on the edge, but now I feel like I’m accepted in both, which is extremely gratifying.
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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise. I mean, I don’t write for kids.
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So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.
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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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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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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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I don’t watch anything on a regular basis – I tend to binge-watch things.
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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.
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In a genre where most of the artists are one-hit wonders, I’ve been able to hang around longer than most “serious” acts. I pride myself in being a very talented leech.
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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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In fact, when I come up with an idea for a parody I try to resist the urge to Google the idea to see if someone has done it already because the answer is almost always, “Yes, of course they have, they’ve thought of it!”
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Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they’re not afraid of wolves.
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My wife went off with Elvis.
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