There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can’t think of a clever enough idea.
AL YANKOVICDidn’t have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
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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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If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I’d love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now.
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You fake something until you’re good at it.
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The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I’ve parodied over the years.
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You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.
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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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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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There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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The music has always been my bread and butter, and I’ve focused more of my attention on that.
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It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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Nows the time to go for all the gusto you can grab. You’ll have plenty of time to be low-key when you’re laid out on the slab.
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If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.
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That’s something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.
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I’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.
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I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
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You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
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He died a long painful death. However, you’ll be happy to hear that just a few years later he was reincarnated as Shirley MacLaine.
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As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.
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Doing things that I don’t know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them.
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I’ve learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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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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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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In the ’80s, I was the only game in town, I was the only one getting that kind of exposure in any rotation on MTV.
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When I go to my live shows it’s often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
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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.
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Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I’d just be another guy in L.A. with a movie script in his drawer.
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