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I don’t want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that’s more my personal taste.

Al Yankovic

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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Celebrity Few Flatter Perform Repeat
You can try on our suede underwear if you choose. Do what you want, but don’t step on my blue suede shoes.
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Choose Our Shoe Step Suede Underwear Want
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
Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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Buck Channel Midget Month Wres
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 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
So that’s why one of my rules of parody writing is that it’s gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.
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Funny Gotta Know Material Merit Parody Regard Rule Source Write
I’ve learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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Effectively Filter Learn Pretty Spam Use
I always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I’ll catch up.
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Along Catch Comfort Hopefully Somewhere Try
I am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.
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Discover Entirely Gave Make Meat Needless Soon Up
There aren’t that many superstars around anymore.
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Anyone Around Many Superstar
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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Assimilate Call Culture Gotten More Nerd Think Want
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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Funny Happen Music Real Sometimes Think Thought
I was able to come up with a couple articles for the magazine, I was able to solicit help from a bunch of my friends to contribute pieces: Patton Oswalt, Seth Green, Emo Phillips, Chris Hardwick, John Hodgman, and more.
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Able Article Bunch Come Couple Friend Magazine Solicit
If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.
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Enough Good People See Something
You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.
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Bagel Face Pitchfork Remove Staple Wanna

I don’t want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that’s more my personal taste.

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I don’t want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that’s more my personal taste.

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