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.
AL YANKOVICIt 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.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.
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You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
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I’ll be mellow when I’m dead.
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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’m just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.
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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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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 brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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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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It doesn’t take a military genius to see we’ll all be crispy critters after World War III.
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I don’t really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I’ve never been to therapy so there’s probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don’t know.
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It’s hard to say, I picked one of my favorite articles for the MAD vault. Which is one of the features of the Magazine so they don’t have to actually pay artists or writers to come up with new stuff.
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So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
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You still have Top 40 radio now, but it’s 40 different stations. There aren’t many hits that everybody knows, and there aren’t many real superstars.
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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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