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.
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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It’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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I know now that everything I write, I’m going to put out, and I’ll have to live with it for the rest of my life.
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When I go to my live shows it’s often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
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As it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.
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Right now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.
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It fit pretty nicely into my schedule because we’d pretty much finished the bulk of promotion for Mandatory Fun and were just getting geared up for the World Tour so this was a nice time for me to be working on it.
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You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.
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I don’t want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones’?’
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I’m free to do what I please, I’m probably not going to do albums. Just because I think releasing tracks as singles is a better way for me to stay topical.
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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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So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
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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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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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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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If money can’t buy happiness, then I guess I’ll have to rent it.
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