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I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.

Al Yankovic

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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Around Creatively Humorous Lyric Repetitive Some Song
You don’t need to be defined by your job.
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Defined Job Need
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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Everything Go Life Live Now Out Rest Write
Somebody will come up to me after a show and have me sign their arm, and the next time I see them my autograph has been permanently inscribed on their arm.
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Arm Autograph Come Next Permanent Show Somebody Time Up
Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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Come Horrible Idea Parody
Well I’ve made no secret of my life long love of MAD Magazine, it’s probably my first and greatest influence in terms of my comic sensibilities. I’ve known John [Ficarra] for many years, and we’ve been friends.
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Country First Great Influence Mad Made Nice Probably Secret Year
Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
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Along Anymore Chain Date Food Low Until Came
About four or five months ago, at a dinner in New York, John made the very nice offer of my being guest editor for an issue of MAD and I thought about it for about half a nanosecond and decided that was a pretty good idea.
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Editor Five Good Guest Idea Issue Month Nanosecond Nice Offer Pretty
You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
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Bungee Love Lower Relationship Strand Tower
Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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Down Naked Picture Take
Not any specific one, but I was a huge fan of Frank Jacobs, I guess he wrote the plurality of the song parodies for MAD, Sam Hart, a few others, but that was also where I was first exposed to the art form of song parodies.
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Build Fan Feature Guess Huge One People Plura Specific Wrote
Nows the time to go for all the gusto you can grab. You’ll have plenty of time to be low-key when you’re laid out on the slab.
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Grab Gusto Inspirational Key Lead Low Out Time
A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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Basic Cartoon Natural Variation Voice
After that, I made the decision to headline no matter what, even if I was playing to seven people. I wanted people to be there to see me.
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Decision Even Headline Made Matter People Play Seven Want
I don’t want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that’s more my personal taste.
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Appreciate Favorite Guitar Kind Modern Music Personal Pooh Pop
My wife went off with Elvis.
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Off Went Wife

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