I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.
AL YANKOVICYou got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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Maybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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I decided that I wanted to be a voice on every animated cartoon in the history of the world – even shows that haven’t been on the air for a very long time, that’s going to be harder to pull off.
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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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They somehow didn’t see the need for an accordion player. That’s when I realized that I had to find my own path in life.
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It’s hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.
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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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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
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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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How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you’re doing?
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It’s very much a “Weird Al” themed issue, so I’d like to think that there’s a lot of “Weird Al” flavor throughout but I think it’d be generous really to call me an editor.
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Not any specific one, but I was a huge fan of Frank Jacobs, I guess he wrote the plurality of the song parodies for MAD, Sam Hart, a few others, but that was also where I was first exposed to the art form of song parodies.
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There’s enough people that do unfunny music. I’ll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.
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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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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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