I’m very analytical, I’m very precise. I mean, I don’t write for kids.
AL YANKOVICIt’s hard to say, I picked one of my favorite articles for the MAD vault. Which is one of the features of the Magazine so they don’t have to actually pay artists or writers to come up with new stuff.
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A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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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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One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don’t realize there’s a lot of craft behind the comedy.
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I’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
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I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
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I’ve always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That’s something that I’ve been proactive about.
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Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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Whenever I do a parody it’s not meant to make you hate anybody’s music really.
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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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When I swore that you’re getting more and more beautiful everyday. Well, I was only kidding, honey.
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And then I’ll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
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If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I’d love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now.
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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’m obviously not a rapper, and I don’t have any claims to be one, really.
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