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There’s enough people that do unfunny music. I’ll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.

Al Yankovic

I love the way they run in fright when I turn on the kitchen light. And when I squish them on the ground, they make a pleasant crunchy sound.
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Fright Ground Kitchen Light Love Pleasant Run Sound Squish
It doesn’t take a military genius to see we’ll all be crispy critters after World War III.
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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 don’t watch a lot of other people’s parodies because I don’t want to be unduly influenced.
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I’d like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them.
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Maybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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That’s a big part of my life – doing things that I’m not prepared to do.
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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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When I started out, I didn’t feel like I was really accepted in the music or comedy communities, and I was somewhere on the edge, but now I feel like I’m accepted in both, which is extremely gratifying.
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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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Because you’re supposed to lose yourself in the character, but sometimes people look at a character and go “Oh, it’s ‘Weird Al.'”
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So that’s why one of my rules of parody writing is that it’s gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.
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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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Bottle Coke End Got Left Nestle Record Stuck Sun Tongue
If money can’t buy happiness, then I guess I’ll have to rent it.
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Buy Happiness Guess Money Rent Sassy
The window doesn’t open, the fan is broke, and my face is turning blue. I haven’t been in a crowd like this since I went to see the Who.
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When I swore that you’re getting more and more beautiful everyday. Well, I was only kidding, honey.
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I’d rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.
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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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Doing things that I don’t know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them.
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There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
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I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I’ll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points.
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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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Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they’re not afraid of wolves.
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I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, ‘OK, this is what I’m going to do for a living and I’m going to be Weird Al.’
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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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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 enough people that do unfunny music. I’ll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.

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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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