I’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
AL YANKOVICHe put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.
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I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
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It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
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I know I’m a million times as humble as thou art!
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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 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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So that’s why one of my rules of parody writing is that it’s gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.
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I’m always a little leery about doing shows where I’m not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and got pelted for 45 minutes.
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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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Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
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In fact, when I come up with an idea for a parody I try to resist the urge to Google the idea to see if someone has done it already because the answer is almost always, “Yes, of course they have, they’ve thought of it!”
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In the ’80s, I was the only game in town, I was the only one getting that kind of exposure in any rotation on MTV.
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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
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People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.
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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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Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I’d just be another guy in L.A. with a movie script in his drawer.
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I don’t watch a lot of other people’s parodies because I don’t want to be unduly influenced.
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One of the hardest things I’ve had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.
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I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children’s book was something that I’d been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.
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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 just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.
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I love the way they run in fright when I turn on the kitchen light. And when I squish them on the ground, they make a pleasant crunchy sound.
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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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I think that was the genesis of my polka medleys, because every rock song I played on the accordion just sounded like a polka and my friends thought it was funny.
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The window doesn’t open, the fan is broke, and my face is turning blue. I haven’t been in a crowd like this since I went to see the Who.
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I know now that everything I write, I’m going to put out, and I’ll have to live with it for the rest of my life.
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Beans, beans, the magic legumes – the more you ingest, the more you consume.
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