People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
AL YANKOVICI 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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He died a long painful death. However, you’ll be happy to hear that just a few years later he was reincarnated as Shirley MacLaine.
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I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing.
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There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.
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So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
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There’s enough people that do unfunny music. I’ll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.
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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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In fact, when I come up with an idea for a parody I try to resist the urge to Google the idea to see if someone has done it already because the answer is almost always, “Yes, of course they have, they’ve thought of it!”
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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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That’s something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.
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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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I 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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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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I was able to come up with a couple articles for the magazine, I was able to solicit help from a bunch of my friends to contribute pieces: Patton Oswalt, Seth Green, Emo Phillips, Chris Hardwick, John Hodgman, and more.
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How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you’re doing?
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