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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.

Al Yankovic

I’m always a little leery about doing shows where I’m not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and got pelted for 45 minutes.
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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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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’m a music fan, and I can listen to the radio, or music, without thinking, “How am I going to screw this up?” [Laughs] If I’m really actively trying to think of a parody, then I’ll have my antenna out, and be a little more proactive about it.
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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
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I’ll be mellow when I’m dead.
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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
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As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.
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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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Avoid Discuss Heat Paper Political Politics Religion Toilet
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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I love the way they run in fright when I turn on the kitchen light. And when I squish them on the ground, they make a pleasant crunchy sound.
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Fright Ground Kitchen Light Love Pleasant Run Sound Squish
That’s something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.
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Gateway Kid Lesbian Read Something Witchcraft
It’s very much a “Weird Al” themed issue, so I’d like to think that there’s a lot of “Weird Al” flavor throughout but I think it’d be generous really to call me an editor.
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There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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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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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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