I’m very analytical, I’m very precise. I mean, I don’t write for kids.
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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Like, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you’ll be watching TV, and it’ll be interrupted by some tragic event, and you’ll actually find yourself thinking,
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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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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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It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I’ve ever done, so it’s a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.
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By the time I’m in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
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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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I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.
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I’ve always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That’s something that I’ve been proactive about.
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I tend to enunciate pretty well. It’s always seemed that my voice is one of those voices that people can recognize pretty easily – which has been a bit of a drawback for some characters.
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They somehow didn’t see the need for an accordion player. That’s when I realized that I had to find my own path in life.
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I’m just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.
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Sometimes I get, “Have you ever thought about doing real music?” I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.
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I know now that everything I write, I’m going to put out, and I’ll have to live with it for the rest of my life.
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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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