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.
AL YANKOVICI’m stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they’re not all good!
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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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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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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’t say enough good things about my band. I feel very fortunate that I found them when I did, very early in my career.
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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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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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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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People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.
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People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.
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I always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I’ll catch up.
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As a wise man once said, “April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people’s heads.”
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Ever since the day you left me, I’ve been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.
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If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I’d love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now.
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I 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.
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