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I 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.

Al Yankovic

Kind of wish I was dead. Maybe, I’ll blow my brains out, mama, or maybe I’ll go bowling.
AL YANKOVIC

Blow Brain Kind Mama Maybe Suicide Wish
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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Accept Comedy Community Feel Gratifying Like Music Somewhere Start
I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.
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Esteem Hockey Little Lost Made Self Team
Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I’m praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.
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Automatic Brand Laser Play Revenge Semi Sight Tonight Try
The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I’ve parodied over the years.
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Career Course Iron Last Longer Over Parody People Year
I’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.
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Comedy Geek Important Inside Thing
I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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Hard Know Label Like Myself Pigeon
If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.
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Enough Good People See Something
Didn’t have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
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Honesty Nintendo Pour Salt Snail
I start with a comprehensive list of all the recent songs that have been big hits – and then I go down that list and see if I can come up with funny ideas for them. I can always come up with ideas, but not necessarily good ones!
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Been Big Down Hit Idea List Recent Song
Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.
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never Put Velvet Weight
One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don’t realize there’s a lot of craft behind the comedy.
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Band Comedy One Overlook Peeve Pet Problem Realize Same Sometimes Talent
Doing things that I don’t know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them.
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Do Good Know Them Thing Until
What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist’s performance on whether or not they had a good seat?
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Artist Attention Austin Kind More Music
I do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.
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Artist Feel Idiosyncraisies Learn Like Musical Original Something Song Sound Try Twist
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.
AL YANKOVIC

Attention Crave Look Person Probably Stuff Therapy

I 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.

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I 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.

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