I’ve done a movie and a TV series, and someday I’d like to do a successful movie and a successful TV series. That would be nice.
AL YANKOVICMy personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
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Doing things that I don’t know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them.
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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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I try to pick songs that I actually like because I realize that I have to live with these songs for a long time, from when I’m working on them in the studio to possibly playing them onstage for the rest of my life.
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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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Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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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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I do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it’s very difficult to figure out where I fit.
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I’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
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Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I’d just be another guy in L.A. with a movie script in his drawer.
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So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.
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Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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You don’t need to be defined by your job.
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I dated Siamese twins, I slept with Big Foot, too. Get me on Sally Jesse, put me on Donahue.
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