I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
AL YANKOVICSo 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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So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.
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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise.
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I’d like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them.
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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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Whenever I do a parody it’s not meant to make you hate anybody’s music really.
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I’m stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.
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So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
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Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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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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Like, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you’ll be watching TV, and it’ll be interrupted by some tragic event, and you’ll actually find yourself thinking,
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I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.
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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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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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That’s a big part of my life – doing things that I’m not prepared to do.
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As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it’s been a huge promotional tool for me.
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