My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
AL YANKOVICI can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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I don’t watch a lot of other people’s parodies because I don’t want to be unduly influenced.
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I’ve always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That’s something that I’ve been proactive about.
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And then I’ll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
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I don’t really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I’ve never been to therapy so there’s probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don’t know.
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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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I’m just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.
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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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You still have Top 40 radio now, but it’s 40 different stations. There aren’t many hits that everybody knows, and there aren’t many real superstars.
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There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.
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I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing.
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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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They do everything from gangsta rap to polka music and every genre in between. It’s amazing.
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I’m always a little leery about doing shows where I’m not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and got pelted for 45 minutes.
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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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