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I’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.

Al Yankovic

I decided that I wanted to be a voice on every animated cartoon in the history of the world – even shows that haven’t been on the air for a very long time, that’s going to be harder to pull off.
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Animate Cartoon Decide History Long Show Time Voice Want Worlds
As a wise man once said, “April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people’s heads.”
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April Day Excuse Fool Man never People Wise
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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Automatic Brand Laser Play Revenge Semi Sight Tonight Try
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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Bathroom Fantastic Go Hairbrush Live Mirror OK Rock Sing Star Suppose Weird
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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Candidate Enough Good Idea Ostensibly Parody Song Think
You can try on our suede underwear if you choose. Do what you want, but don’t step on my blue suede shoes.
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Choose Our Shoe Step Suede Underwear Want
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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Articulate Enough Idea Make Movie Parameter Song
It doesn’t take a military genius to see we’ll all be crispy critters after World War III.
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Critter Genius Look Military Peace School Second War World
So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.
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Continue Day Joke That Up Very
Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.
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Bottle Coke End Got Left Nestle Record Stuck Sun Tongue
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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Ablum Album Attention Better Detail Gotten More Pay Spend Think Time
How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you’re doing?
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Audience Bore Cheer Do Parody Something
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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Another Find Involve Just Kind Motivate Movie Property Right Screenplay Tie
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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Approval Artist Go Idea Parody Positive Process Record Song
I do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.
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Artist Feel Idiosyncraisies Learn Like Musical Original Something Song Sound Try Twist
Pop culture’s gotten much more disposable.
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Culture Disposable More Pop Gotten

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