I’m very analytical, I’m very precise.
AL YANKOVICRight now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.
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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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I always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I’ll catch up.
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Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
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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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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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Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.
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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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So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
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My wife went off with Elvis.
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I’ll bet every great thinker and leader we’ve got Could see all kinds of things other people could not!
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A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
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By the time I’m in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
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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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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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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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