It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
AL YANKOVICI 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 decided that I wanted to be a voice on every animated cartoon in the history of the world – even shows that haven’t been on the air for a very long time, that’s going to be harder to pull off.
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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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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise. I mean, I don’t write for kids.
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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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So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
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Somebody will come up to me after a show and have me sign their arm, and the next time I see them my autograph has been permanently inscribed on their arm.
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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 start with a comprehensive list of all the recent songs that have been big hits – and then I go down that list and see if I can come up with funny ideas for them. I can always come up with ideas, but not necessarily good ones!
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I’m an ugly girl, My face makes you hurl, Sad I have it, I should bag it. Acne everywhere, Unwanted facial hair. I’m a relation to Frankenstein’s creation.
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Not any specific one, but I was a huge fan of Frank Jacobs, I guess he wrote the plurality of the song parodies for MAD, Sam Hart, a few others, but that was also where I was first exposed to the art form of song parodies.
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I think I’m equally as abusive as the editors normally are for the “Letters and Tomatoes” column, which is the fan mail part of MAD Magazine and an ongoing feature.
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Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.
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That’s something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.
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I’ve always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it!
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I’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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It’s hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.
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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 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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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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I don’t watch anything on a regular basis – I tend to binge-watch things.
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Nows the time to go for all the gusto you can grab. You’ll have plenty of time to be low-key when you’re laid out on the slab.
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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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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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I’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.
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Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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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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