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As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it’s been a huge promotional tool for me.

Al Yankovic

I always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I’ll catch up.
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Along Catch Comfort Hopefully Somewhere Try
Pop culture’s gotten much more disposable.
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Culture Disposable More Pop Gotten
A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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Basic Cartoon Natural Variation Voice
Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.
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never Put Velvet Weight
Beans, beans, the magic legumes – the more you ingest, the more you consume.
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Bean Consume Ingest Magic More
I do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.
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Artist Feel Idiosyncraisies Learn Like Musical Original Something Song Sound Try Twist
I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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Get Me Offend Parody Somebody Too
I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I’ll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points.
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Amuse Down Edit Help Notebook Part Storyline Think Write
Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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Come Horrible Idea Parody
I dated Siamese twins, I slept with Big Foot, too. Get me on Sally Jesse, put me on Donahue.
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Big Date Foot Put Sally Siamese Slept Too Twin
That’s something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.
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Gateway Kid Lesbian Read Something Witchcraft
In the ’80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear – that if I didn’t, people would soon forget about me.
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Album Based Eighty Every Fear Forget Mostly People Put Think Virtual Year
Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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Buck Channel Midget Month Wres
When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.
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Architect Career Choice Counselor Go Guidance Kid Old Twelve Year
Well I’ve made no secret of my life long love of MAD Magazine, it’s probably my first and greatest influence in terms of my comic sensibilities. I’ve known John [Ficarra] for many years, and we’ve been friends.
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Country First Great Influence Mad Made Nice Probably Secret Year
Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they’re not afraid of wolves.
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Afraid Algebra Animation Boy Flunking Like Lot Nuclear Thing Wolf

As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it’s been a huge promotional tool for me.

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