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I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.

Al Yankovic

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
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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Character Look People Sometimes Suppose Weird Yourself
Didn’t have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
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Honesty Nintendo Pour Salt Snail
I think that was the genesis of my polka medleys, because every rock song I played on the accordion just sounded like a polka and my friends thought it was funny.
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Friend Funny Genesis Medley Polka Rock Song Soun Think
My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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Book Decison Enetr Parody Personal Read
When I started out, I didn’t feel like I was really accepted in the music or comedy communities, and I was somewhere on the edge, but now I feel like I’m accepted in both, which is extremely gratifying.
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Accept Comedy Community Feel Gratifying Like Music Somewhere Start
It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I’ve ever done, so it’s a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.
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Album Best Done Go Important Next Self Thing Time
I’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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Energy Guy High Kind Known Optimistic
The music has always been my bread and butter, and I’ve focused more of my attention on that.
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Always Attention Bread Butter Focus Music
Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.
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Bottle Coke End Got Left Nestle Record Stuck Sun Tongue
I’ve learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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Effectively Filter Learn Pretty Spam Use
Whenever I do a parody it’s not meant to make you hate anybody’s music really.
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Anybody Hate Make Music Parody Really
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
So that’s why one of my rules of parody writing is that it’s gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.
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Funny Gotta Know Material Merit Parody Regard Rule Source Write
Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
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Along Anymore Chain Date Food Low Until Came
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

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