I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, ‘OK, this is what I’m going to do for a living and I’m going to be Weird Al.’
AL YANKOVICI don’t watch anything on a regular basis – I tend to binge-watch things.
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If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I’d love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now.
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I’ve learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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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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Doing things that I don’t know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them.
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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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My velvet Elvis means the world to me. Although he may not be worth much dough, he means more to me than some old Rembrandt or Van Gogh.
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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
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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 am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.
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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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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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I don’t want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones’?’
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A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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There aren’t that many superstars around anymore.
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