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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.

Al Yankovic

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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Around Bookstore Fan Find Huge Issue Life Magazine Old Scour Revolve
So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
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Differently Kind Somebody Thing Tries Upset
You still have Top 40 radio now, but it’s 40 different stations. There aren’t many hits that everybody knows, and there aren’t many real superstars.
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Everybody Forty Know Radio Show Still Superstar
When I go to my live shows it’s often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
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Experience Family Bond Live Show
Pop culture’s gotten much more disposable.
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Culture Disposable More Pop Gotten
One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don’t realize there’s a lot of craft behind the comedy.
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Band Comedy One Overlook Peeve Pet Problem Realize Same Sometimes Talent
I like to think that I’ve gotten better at what I do. I spend more time and pay more attention to detail album after album. But pretty much it’s stayed the same.
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Ablum Album Attention Better Detail Gotten More Pay Spend Think Time
I’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.
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Comedy Geek Important Inside Thing
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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Accept Comedy Community Feel Gratifying Like Music Somewhere Start
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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Better Death Little Long Look Nerdy People Year
He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.
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Gay Inside Jock Paste Revenge Strap Tooth Tube
I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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Hard Know Label Like Myself Pigeon
How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you’re doing?
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Audience Bore Cheer Do Parody Something
I do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it’s very difficult to figure out where I fit.
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Different Difficult Figure Out Same Sometimes Thing
Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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Come Horrible Idea Parody
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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April Day Excuse Fool Man never People Wise
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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Editor Five Good Guest Idea Issue Month Nanosecond Nice Offer Pretty
There are probably a few library fines I haven’t paid yet, but I’m a pretty clean-cut guy overall.
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Cut Fine Guy Library Overall Paid Pretty Probably
A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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Artist Supportive Year
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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Bulk Finish Fit Mandatory Nicely Pretty Promotion Scheule
I tend to enunciate pretty well. It’s always seemed that my voice is one of those voices that people can recognize pretty easily – which has been a bit of a drawback for some characters.
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Always Character Drawback Easily Enunciate People Pretty Recognize Seem Tenth Voice
It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
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Creativity Force Hard Humor
I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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Get Me Offend Parody Somebody Too
I don’t want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones’?’
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Cartoon Derail Happen Hear Train Want
It doesn’t take a military genius to see we’ll all be crispy critters after World War III.
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Critter Genius Look Military Peace School Second War World
Whenever I do a parody it’s not meant to make you hate anybody’s music really.
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Anybody Hate Make Music Parody Really
There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can’t think of a clever enough idea.
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Candidate Clever Enough Good Ostensibly Parody Song Think

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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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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