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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.

Al Yankovic

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
I was able to come up with a couple articles for the magazine, I was able to solicit help from a bunch of my friends to contribute pieces: Patton Oswalt, Seth Green, Emo Phillips, Chris Hardwick, John Hodgman, and more.
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Able Article Bunch Come Couple Friend Magazine Solicit
As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.
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Certain Do Fun Kid Something Spend Thought
I always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I’ll catch up.
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Along Catch Comfort Hopefully Somewhere Try
So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
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Differently Kind Somebody Thing Tries Upset
You don’t need to be defined by your job.
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Defined Job Need
It fit pretty nicely into my schedule because we’d pretty much finished the bulk of promotion for Mandatory Fun and were just getting geared up for the World Tour so this was a nice time for me to be working on it.
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Bulk Finish Fit Mandatory Nicely Pretty Promotion Scheule
I’m obviously not a rapper, and I don’t have any claims to be one, really.
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Claim Obvious One Rapper Real
I like to think that I’ve gotten better at what I do. I spend more time and pay more attention to detail album after album. But pretty much it’s stayed the same.
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Ablum Album Attention Better Detail Gotten More Pay Spend Think Time
It’s very much a “Weird Al” themed issue, so I’d like to think that there’s a lot of “Weird Al” flavor throughout but I think it’d be generous really to call me an editor.
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Call Editor Generous Issue Think Throughout Weird
People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
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Do Funny Music People Serious Think
Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they’re not all good!
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All Culture Do Everyone Good Internet Music Now Parody Seem
As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it’s been a huge promotional tool for me.
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Artist Grip Huge Much People Promotion Tool
Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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Advertise Out People Want Some Spread Weird
My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
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Gradually Hobby Sort Vocation
I’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.
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Comedy Geek Important Inside Thing
It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
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Creativity Force Hard Humor
When I swore that you’re getting more and more beautiful everyday. Well, I was only kidding, honey.
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Beautiful Everyday Honesty Kid More
By the time I’m in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
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Parody Recording Song Studio Time YouTube
Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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Big Chunk Dinner Dirt Every Night Reality
If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.
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Avoid Discuss Heat Paper Political Politics Religion Toilet
No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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Car No Tape Track
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.’
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Bathroom Fantastic Go Hairbrush Live Mirror OK Rock Sing Star Suppose Weird
I have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I’m concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the Internet is severely eating into my album sales and having a decidedly adverse effect on my career.
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Career Concern Copyright Download Feel Hand MIxed One Rampant Song
You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.
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Bagel Face Pitchfork Remove Staple Wanna
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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I have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes.
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History Long Respect Stand Wish

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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