Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
AL YANKOVICI am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.
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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
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You can try on our suede underwear if you choose. Do what you want, but don’t step on my blue suede shoes.
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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
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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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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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In the ’80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear – that if I didn’t, people would soon forget about me.
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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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I’d rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.
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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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I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.
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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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They do everything from gangsta rap to polka music and every genre in between. It’s amazing.
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As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.
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Sometimes I get, “Have you ever thought about doing real music?” I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.
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Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
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