I’ll be mellow when I’m dead.
AL YANKOVICI’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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In the ’80s, I was the only game in town, I was the only one getting that kind of exposure in any rotation on MTV.
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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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I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.
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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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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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I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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Beans, beans, the magic legumes – the more you ingest, the more you consume.
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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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It doesn’t take a military genius to see we’ll all be crispy critters after World War III.
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My wife went off with Elvis.
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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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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
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Some songs are too repetitive for me to be able to fashion a humorous set of lyrics around. Some songs flat-out just don’t work creatively for me.
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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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