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I’d rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.

Al Yankovic

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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Been Big Down Hit Idea List Recent Song
A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
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Melody Rap Song Usually
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 think my chances of ever making it into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame are about as good as Milli Vanilli’s.
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Chance Fame Good Make Rock Think
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
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
I’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
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Chart Head Hope Pop Something Watch Week Will
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
A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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Artist Supportive Year
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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Band Comedy One Overlook Peeve Pet Problem Realize Same Sometimes Talent
I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
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Candidate Chart Good Idea Song Speak Target Try
I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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Animal Bend Paper Shape Work
I don’t want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones’?’
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Cartoon Derail Happen Hear Train Want
Not only are they just great, nice guys; they’re some of the best musicians you’re likely to find.
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Best Find Great Guy Just Likely Musician Nice Some
Kind of wish I was dead. Maybe, I’ll blow my brains out, mama, or maybe I’ll go bowling.
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Blow Brain Kind Mama Maybe Suicide Wish

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