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.
AL YANKOVICSometimes I get, “Have you ever thought about doing real music?” I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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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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Doing things that I don’t know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them.
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Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they’re not all good!
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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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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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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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My velvet Elvis means the world to me. Although he may not be worth much dough, he means more to me than some old Rembrandt or Van Gogh.
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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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I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.
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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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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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When I go to my live shows it’s often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
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You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.
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