I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
AL YANKOVICMy personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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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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Kind of wish I was dead. Maybe, I’ll blow my brains out, mama, or maybe I’ll go bowling.
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I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.
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When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.
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I know I’m a million times as humble as thou art!
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In fact, when I come up with an idea for a parody I try to resist the urge to Google the idea to see if someone has done it already because the answer is almost always, “Yes, of course they have, they’ve thought of it!”
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Sometimes I get, “Have you ever thought about doing real music?” I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.
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Ever since the day you left me, I’ve been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.
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I don’t watch anything on a regular basis – I tend to binge-watch things.
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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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My own personal tastes don’t really have an effect on whether song is a parody target or not. But having said that,
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I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I’ll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points.
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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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Because you’re supposed to lose yourself in the character, but sometimes people look at a character and go “Oh, it’s ‘Weird Al.'”
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