That’s something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.
AL YANKOVICI don’t watch a lot of other people’s parodies because I don’t want to be unduly influenced.
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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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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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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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Right now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.
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Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
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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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About four or five months ago, at a dinner in New York, John made the very nice offer of my being guest editor for an issue of MAD and I thought about it for about half a nanosecond and decided that was a pretty good idea.
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So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.
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It’s hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.
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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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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.
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I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.
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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise. I mean, I don’t write for kids.
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