By the time I’m in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
AL YANKOVICLeft all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.
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Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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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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In a genre where most of the artists are one-hit wonders, I’ve been able to hang around longer than most “serious” acts. I pride myself in being a very talented leech.
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It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
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I’m obviously not a rapper, and I don’t have any claims to be one, really.
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I have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes.
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I’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise. I mean, I don’t write for kids.
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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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Pop culture’s gotten much more disposable.
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My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.
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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
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I don’t really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I’ve never been to therapy so there’s probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don’t know.
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