How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you’re doing?
AL YANKOVICI don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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There aren’t that many superstars around anymore.
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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 don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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By the time I’m in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
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Many years ago I found out something about hamburgers that really grossed me out. You may not know this, so I hope I don’t make you sick, but it turns out hamburgers are actually made out of dead cows.
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That’s something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.
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That’s a big part of my life – doing things that I’m not prepared to do.
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As it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.
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I’ve always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it!
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People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.
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When I swore that you’re getting more and more beautiful everyday. Well, I was only kidding, honey.
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One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don’t realize there’s a lot of craft behind the comedy.
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A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
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I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children’s book was something that I’d been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.
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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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