I do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it’s very difficult to figure out where I fit.
AL YANKOVICI 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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A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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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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On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!
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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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I’ve learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
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Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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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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Some songs are too repetitive for me to be able to fashion a humorous set of lyrics around. Some songs flat-out just don’t work creatively for me.
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I’m a music fan, and I can listen to the radio, or music, without thinking, “How am I going to screw this up?” [Laughs] If I’m really actively trying to think of a parody, then I’ll have my antenna out, and be a little more proactive about it.
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He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.
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You don’t need to be defined by your job.
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There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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I always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I’ll catch up.
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