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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.

Al Yankovic

Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I’d just be another guy in L.A. with a movie script in his drawer.
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Another Better Chance Drawer Guy Movie Script
I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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Animal Bend Paper Shape Work
My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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Book Decison Enetr Parody Personal Read
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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Band Comedy One Overlook Peeve Pet Problem Realize Same Sometimes Talent
I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
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Abuduct Fair Kind Look Space
One of the hardest things I’ve had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.
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Album Career Deel Keep Material Three Topical Year
Beans, beans, the magic legumes – the more you ingest, the more you consume.
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Bean Consume Ingest Magic More
I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I’ll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points.
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Amuse Down Edit Help Notebook Part Storyline Think Write
Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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Buck Channel Midget Month Wres
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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Grab Gusto Inspirational Key Lead Low Out Time
It’s hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.
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Articulate Enough Idea Make Movie Parameter Song
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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Abusive Column Editor Equally Letter Mad Normal Ongoing Think Tomato
You fake something until you’re good at it.
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Fake Good Something Until
As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.
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Certain Do Fun Kid Something Spend Thought
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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Able Dad Father Life Live Make Success
As a wise man once said, “April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people’s heads.”
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April Day Excuse Fool Man never People Wise

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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