I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
AL YANKOVICBuy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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And then I’ll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
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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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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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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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Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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I know I’m a million times as humble as thou art!
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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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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’m stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.
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Maybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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If money can’t buy happiness, then I guess I’ll have to rent it.
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Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they’re not all good!
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One 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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A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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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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How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you’re doing?
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I’d like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them.
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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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I have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes.
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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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I can’t say enough good things about my band. I feel very fortunate that I found them when I did, very early in my career.
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I do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.
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Not only are they just great, nice guys; they’re some of the best musicians you’re likely to find.
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So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
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When I go to my live shows it’s often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
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I’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.
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