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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.

Al Yankovic

You don’t need to be defined by your job.
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Defined Job Need
Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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Down Naked Picture Take
I’ve always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it!
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Album Always Come Enjoy Guy People Record Script
Maybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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Belly Button Color Huge Maybe Social Taboo
Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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Buck Channel Midget Month Wres
That’s a big part of my life – doing things that I’m not prepared to do.
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Big Comfort Depth Life Part Prepare Try
Doing things that I don’t know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them.
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Do Good Know Them Thing Until
I can’t say enough good things about my band. I feel very fortunate that I found them when I did, very early in my career.
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Early Enough Feel Fortunate Gangsta Good Nice Rap Think Very
You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.
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Bagel Face Pitchfork Remove Staple Wanna
I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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Get Me Offend Parody Somebody Too
Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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Big Chunk Dinner Dirt Every Night Reality
My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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Book Decison Enetr Parody Personal Read
I am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.
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Discover Entirely Gave Make Meat Needless Soon Up
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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Country First Great Influence Mad Made Nice Probably Secret Year
I’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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Energy Guy High Kind Known Optimistic
At this point I’ve got a bit of a track record. So people realize that when ‘Weird Al’ wants to go parody, it’s not meant to make them look bad… it’s meant to be a tribute.
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Bad Bookstore Look Point Record Scour Track Tribute Try
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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According Life Need Own Path Player Realize Somehow
I don’t want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones’?’
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Cartoon Derail Happen Hear Train Want
Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
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Album Medley Percent Polka Probably
I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing.
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Accordion Amuse Cut Extreme Paly Rock Song Teenage
Some songs are too repetitive for me to be able to fashion a humorous set of lyrics around. Some songs flat-out just don’t work creatively for me.
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Around Creatively Humorous Lyric Repetitive Some Song
On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!
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Free Hand On Other Song Want Wow
I don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
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Any Cover Media New Think
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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Build Fan Feature Guess Huge One People Plura Specific Wrote
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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Funny Happen Music Real Sometimes Think Thought
I’ve done a movie and a TV series, and someday I’d like to do a successful movie and a successful TV series. That would be nice.
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Movie Nice Series Successful Television Would
I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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Animal Bend Paper Shape Work

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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