I love the way they run in fright when I turn on the kitchen light. And when I squish them on the ground, they make a pleasant crunchy sound.
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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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
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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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In a genre where most of the artists are one-hit wonders, I’ve been able to hang around longer than most “serious” acts. I pride myself in being a very talented leech.
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It’s very much a “Weird Al” themed issue, so I’d like to think that there’s a lot of “Weird Al” flavor throughout but I think it’d be generous really to call me an editor.
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I dated Siamese twins, I slept with Big Foot, too. Get me on Sally Jesse, put me on Donahue.
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I mean, I hate to gloat, but I’m extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out for me.
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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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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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Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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In fact, when I come up with an idea for a parody I try to resist the urge to Google the idea to see if someone has done it already because the answer is almost always, “Yes, of course they have, they’ve thought of 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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Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I’m praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.
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You can try on our suede underwear if you choose. Do what you want, but don’t step on my blue suede shoes.
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I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
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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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I do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it’s very difficult to figure out where I fit.
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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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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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As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.
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My own personal tastes don’t really have an effect on whether song is a parody target or not. But having said that,
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About four or five months ago, at a dinner in New York, John made the very nice offer of my being guest editor for an issue of MAD and I thought about it for about half a nanosecond and decided that was a pretty good idea.
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Ever since the day you left me, I’ve been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.
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Pop culture’s gotten much more disposable.
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I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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