It fit pretty nicely into my schedule because we’d pretty much finished the bulk of promotion for Mandatory Fun and were just getting geared up for the World Tour so this was a nice time for me to be working on it.
AL YANKOVICWhen I swore that you’re getting more and more beautiful everyday. Well, I was only kidding, honey.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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So I’m one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on ‘The Simpsons,’ which I’m very flattered by.
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There’s enough people that do unfunny music. I’ll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.
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Didn’t have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
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I was able to come up with a couple articles for the magazine, I was able to solicit help from a bunch of my friends to contribute pieces: Patton Oswalt, Seth Green, Emo Phillips, Chris Hardwick, John Hodgman, and more.
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I don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
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I start with a comprehensive list of all the recent songs that have been big hits – and then I go down that list and see if I can come up with funny ideas for them. I can always come up with ideas, but not necessarily good ones!
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A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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Because you’re supposed to lose yourself in the character, but sometimes people look at a character and go “Oh, it’s ‘Weird Al.'”
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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
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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 know I’m a million times as humble as thou art!
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I know now that everything I write, I’m going to put out, and I’ll have to live with it for the rest of my life.
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I’ll bet every great thinker and leader we’ve got Could see all kinds of things other people could not!
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I don’t want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones’?’
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So that’s why one of my rules of parody writing is that it’s gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.
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