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.
AL YANKOVICHe put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
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Because you’re supposed to lose yourself in the character, but sometimes people look at a character and go “Oh, it’s ‘Weird Al.'”
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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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They do everything from gangsta rap to polka music and every genre in between. It’s amazing.
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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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It’s hard to say, I picked one of my favorite articles for the MAD vault. Which is one of the features of the Magazine so they don’t have to actually pay artists or writers to come up with new stuff.
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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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He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.
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By the time I’m in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
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I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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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’ve always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That’s something that I’ve been proactive about.
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Maybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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