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Sometimes 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.

Al Yankovic

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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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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The music has always been my bread and butter, and I’ve focused more of my attention on that.
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How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you’re doing?
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Whenever I do a parody it’s not meant to make you hate anybody’s music really.
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I’m always a little leery about doing shows where I’m not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and got pelted for 45 minutes.
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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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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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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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There’s enough people that do unfunny music. I’ll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.
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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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He died a long painful death. However, you’ll be happy to hear that just a few years later he was reincarnated as Shirley MacLaine.
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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
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I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
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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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It fit pretty nicely into my schedule because we’d pretty much finished the bulk of promotion for Mandatory Fun and were just getting geared up for the World Tour so this was a nice time for me to be working on it.
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Sometimes 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.

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Sometimes 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.

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