You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
AL YANKOVICSome songs are too repetitive for me to be able to fashion a humorous set of lyrics around. Some songs flat-out just don’t work creatively for me.
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I was able to come up with a couple articles for the magazine, I was able to solicit help from a bunch of my friends to contribute pieces: Patton Oswalt, Seth Green, Emo Phillips, Chris Hardwick, John Hodgman, and more.
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I think I’m equally as abusive as the editors normally are for the “Letters and Tomatoes” column, which is the fan mail part of MAD Magazine and an ongoing feature.
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My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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If money can’t buy happiness, then I guess I’ll have to rent it.
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My process for the parodies is that I get an idea for a song and then get approval from the artist and then go in and record it and probably try to get it out as soon as possible.
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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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I’d rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.
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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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What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist’s performance on whether or not they had a good seat?
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Beans, beans, the magic legumes – the more you ingest, the more you consume.
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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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Pop culture’s gotten much more disposable.
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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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Doing things that I don’t know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them.
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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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