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.
AL YANKOVICI think I’m equally as abusive as the editors normally are for the “Letters and Tomatoes” column, which is the fan mail part of MAD Magazine and an ongoing feature.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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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So 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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He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.
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I’m an ugly girl, My face makes you hurl, Sad I have it, I should bag it. Acne everywhere, Unwanted facial hair. I’m a relation to Frankenstein’s creation.
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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 mean, I hate to gloat, but I’m extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out for me.
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People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
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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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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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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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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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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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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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Beans, beans, the magic legumes – the more you ingest, the more you consume.
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