My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
AL YANKOVICSo I’m one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on ‘The Simpsons,’ which I’m very flattered by.
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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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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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My process for the parodies is that I get an idea for a song and then get approval from the artist and then go in and record it and probably try to get it out as soon as possible.
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I tend to enunciate pretty well. It’s always seemed that my voice is one of those voices that people can recognize pretty easily – which has been a bit of a drawback for some characters.
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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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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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I am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.
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If money can’t buy happiness, then I guess I’ll have to rent it.
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What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist’s performance on whether or not they had a good seat?
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It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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They do everything from gangsta rap to polka music and every genre in between. It’s amazing.
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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 know I’m a million times as humble as thou art!
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A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
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I’m just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.
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