People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.
AL YANKOVICI decided that I wanted to be a voice on every animated cartoon in the history of the world – even shows that haven’t been on the air for a very long time, that’s going to be harder to pull off.
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My wife went off with Elvis.
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I do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it’s very difficult to figure out where I fit.
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Nows the time to go for all the gusto you can grab. You’ll have plenty of time to be low-key when you’re laid out on the slab.
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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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That’s a big part of my life – doing things that I’m not prepared to do.
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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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There are probably a few library fines I haven’t paid yet, but I’m a pretty clean-cut guy overall.
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My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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I tend to enunciate pretty well. It’s always seemed that my voice is one of those voices that people can recognize pretty easily – which has been a bit of a drawback for some characters.
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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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In the ’80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear – that if I didn’t, people would soon forget about me.
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I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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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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That’s something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.
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