I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
AL YANKOVICThere 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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The window doesn’t open, the fan is broke, and my face is turning blue. I haven’t been in a crowd like this since I went to see the Who.
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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise.
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Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise. I mean, I don’t write for kids.
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I don’t really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I’ve never been to therapy so there’s probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don’t know.
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Nows the time to go for all the gusto you can grab. You’ll have plenty of time to be low-key when you’re laid out on the slab.
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I’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
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On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!
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I am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.
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I’d like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them.
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As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.
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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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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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I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I’ll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points.
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You still have Top 40 radio now, but it’s 40 different stations. There aren’t many hits that everybody knows, and there aren’t many real superstars.
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