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My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.

Al Yankovic

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.
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Movie Nice Series Successful Television Would
There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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Arm Challenge Clever Different Fashion Lot Parody Sign Song
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
Doing things that I don’t know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them.
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Do Good Know Them Thing Until
Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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Buck Channel Midget Month Wres
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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Actual Life Long Onstage Pick Possible Realize Rest Song Studio Time Work
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
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
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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Article Artist Feature Made One Pick Say Vault
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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Different Difficult Figure Out Same Sometimes Thing
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
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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Another Better Chance Drawer Guy Movie Script
So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.
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Continue Day Joke That Up Very
Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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Big Chunk Dinner Dirt Every Night Reality
You don’t need to be defined by your job.
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Defined Job Need
I dated Siamese twins, I slept with Big Foot, too. Get me on Sally Jesse, put me on Donahue.
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Big Date Foot Put Sally Siamese Slept Too Twin

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