I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
AL YANKOVICI 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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And then I’ll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
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Maybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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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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There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can’t think of a clever enough idea.
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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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I don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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I know I’m a million times as humble as thou art!
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I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, ‘OK, this is what I’m going to do for a living and I’m going to be Weird Al.’
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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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I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
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I don’t want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones’?’
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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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If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.
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I’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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