There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
AL YANKOVICI was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
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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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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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You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.
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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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I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.
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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, ‘OK, this is what I’m going to do for a living and I’m going to be Weird Al.’
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I think my chances of ever making it into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame are about as good as Milli Vanilli’s.
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People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
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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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That’s a big part of my life – doing things that I’m not prepared to do.
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So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
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Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I’m praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.
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It fit pretty nicely into my schedule because we’d pretty much finished the bulk of promotion for Mandatory Fun and were just getting geared up for the World Tour so this was a nice time for me to be working on it.
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