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.
AL YANKOVICThere’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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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A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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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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One of the hardest things I’ve had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.
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There aren’t that many superstars around anymore.
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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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I’m free to do what I please, I’m probably not going to do albums. Just because I think releasing tracks as singles is a better way for me to stay topical.
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There are probably a few library fines I haven’t paid yet, but I’m a pretty clean-cut guy overall.
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Because you’re supposed to lose yourself in the character, but sometimes people look at a character and go “Oh, it’s ‘Weird Al.'”
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I dated Siamese twins, I slept with Big Foot, too. Get me on Sally Jesse, put me on Donahue.
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It’s hard to say, I picked one of my favorite articles for the MAD vault. Which is one of the features of the Magazine so they don’t have to actually pay artists or writers to come up with new stuff.
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I’m stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.
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People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.
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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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Beans, beans, the magic legumes – the more you ingest, the more you consume.
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