My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
AL YANKOVICI dated Siamese twins, I slept with Big Foot, too. Get me on Sally Jesse, put me on Donahue.
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You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
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My own personal tastes don’t really have an effect on whether song is a parody target or not. But having said that,
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As it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.
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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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I’m an ugly girl, My face makes you hurl, Sad I have it, I should bag it. Acne everywhere, Unwanted facial hair. I’m a relation to Frankenstein’s creation.
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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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My wife went off with Elvis.
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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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And then I’ll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
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As a wise man once said, “April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people’s heads.”
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Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.
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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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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
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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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I like to think that I’ve gotten better at what I do. I spend more time and pay more attention to detail album after album. But pretty much it’s stayed the same.
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