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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More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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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Beans, beans, the magic legumes – the more you ingest, the more you consume.
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Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
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I like to think that I’ve gotten better at what I do. I spend more time and pay more attention to detail album after album. But pretty much it’s stayed the same.
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Whenever I do a parody it’s not meant to make you hate anybody’s music really.
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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.
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People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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My velvet Elvis means the world to me. Although he may not be worth much dough, he means more to me than some old Rembrandt or Van Gogh.
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Didn’t have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
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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.
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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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There’s enough people that do unfunny music. I’ll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.
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I’m an ugly girl, My face makes you hurl, Sad I have it, I should bag it. Acne everywhere, Unwanted facial hair. I’m a relation to Frankenstein’s creation.
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