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I dated Siamese twins, I slept with Big Foot, too. Get me on Sally Jesse, put me on Donahue.

Al Yankovic

As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it’s been a huge promotional tool for me.
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Artist Grip Huge Much People Promotion Tool
A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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Basic Cartoon Natural Variation Voice
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
It’s hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.
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Articulate Enough Idea Make Movie Parameter Song
You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.
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Barbecue Down Face Heal Heart Scar Slam
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
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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Afraid Algebra Animation Boy Flunking Like Lot Nuclear Thing Wolf
One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don’t realize there’s a lot of craft behind the comedy.
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Band Comedy One Overlook Peeve Pet Problem Realize Same Sometimes Talent
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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Abusive Column Editor Equally Letter Mad Normal Ongoing Think Tomato
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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Album Based Eighty Every Fear Forget Mostly People Put Think Virtual Year
Right now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.
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Forty Job Listen Music Now Right Top
The music has always been my bread and butter, and I’ve focused more of my attention on that.
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Always Attention Bread Butter Focus Music
You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
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Block Kid Kids New Play Scholar Some
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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Build Fan Feature Guess Huge One People Plura Specific Wrote
Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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Big Chunk Dinner Dirt Every Night Reality
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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Appreciate Enjoy Favorite Gitar Kind Music Personal Set Strange Well

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