At this point I’ve got a bit of a track record. So people realize that when ‘Weird Al’ wants to go parody, it’s not meant to make them look bad… it’s meant to be a tribute.
AL YANKOVICAt this point I’ve got a bit of a track record. So people realize that when ‘Weird Al’ wants to go parody, it’s not meant to make them look bad… it’s meant to be a tribute.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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.
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I’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.
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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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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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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
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Not only are they just great, nice guys; they’re some of the best musicians you’re likely to find.
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Ever since the day you left me, I’ve been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.
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Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they’re not afraid of wolves.
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There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can’t think of a clever enough idea.
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When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.
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I know now that everything I write, I’m going to put out, and I’ll have to live with it for the rest of my life.
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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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As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.
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In fact, when I come up with an idea for a parody I try to resist the urge to Google the idea to see if someone has done it already because the answer is almost always, “Yes, of course they have, they’ve thought of it!”
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I don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
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I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.
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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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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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There’s enough people that do unfunny music. I’ll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.
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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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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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The music has always been my bread and butter, and I’ve focused more of my attention on that.
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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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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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A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
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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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