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.
AL YANKOVICOne of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don’t realize there’s a lot of craft behind the comedy.
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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.
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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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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 enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.
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If money can’t buy happiness, then I guess I’ll have to rent it.
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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
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I 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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He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.
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I have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes.
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You can try on our suede underwear if you choose. Do what you want, but don’t step on my blue suede shoes.
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Many years ago I found out something about hamburgers that really grossed me out. You may not know this, so I hope I don’t make you sick, but it turns out hamburgers are actually made out of dead cows.
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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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When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.
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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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My own personal tastes don’t really have an effect on whether song is a parody target or not. But having said that,
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