I am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.
AL YANKOVICWell 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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My process for the parodies is that I get an idea for a song and then get approval from the artist and then go in and record it and probably try to get it out as soon as possible.
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You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
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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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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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I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
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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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Doing things that I don’t know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them.
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I have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes.
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When I go to my live shows it’s often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
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I don’t watch anything on a regular basis – I tend to binge-watch things.
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You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
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By the time I’m in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
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Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
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It doesn’t take a military genius to see we’ll all be crispy critters after World War III.
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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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People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
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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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Pop culture’s gotten much more disposable.
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It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I’ve ever done, so it’s a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.
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It 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.
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Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I’d just be another guy in L.A. with a movie script in his drawer.
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I don’t want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that’s more my personal taste.
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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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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 do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.
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