There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
AL YANKOVICI’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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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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Somebody will come up to me after a show and have me sign their arm, and the next time I see them my autograph has been permanently inscribed on their arm.
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I’d rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.
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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 try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.
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I think I’m equally as abusive as the editors normally are for the “Letters and Tomatoes” column, which is the fan mail part of MAD Magazine and an ongoing feature.
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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
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After that, I made the decision to headline no matter what, even if I was playing to seven people. I wanted people to be there to see me.
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I was a huge fan of ‘Mad’ magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I’d scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I’d wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.
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Kind of wish I was dead. Maybe, I’ll blow my brains out, mama, or maybe I’ll go bowling.
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I’m obviously not a rapper, and I don’t have any claims to be one, really.
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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 guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.
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When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.
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