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.
AL YANKOVICI dated Siamese twins, I slept with Big Foot, too. Get me on Sally Jesse, put me on Donahue.
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It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I’ve ever done, so it’s a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.
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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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I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.
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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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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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Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
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When I started out, I didn’t feel like I was really accepted in the music or comedy communities, and I was somewhere on the edge, but now I feel like I’m accepted in both, which is extremely gratifying.
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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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I’m always a little leery about doing shows where I’m not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and got pelted for 45 minutes.
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I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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Many years ago I found out something about hamburgers that really grossed me out. You may not know this, so I hope I don’t make you sick, but it turns out hamburgers are actually made out of dead cows.
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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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Whenever I do a parody it’s not meant to make you hate anybody’s music really.
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I don’t watch anything on a regular basis – I tend to binge-watch things.
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After that, I made the decision to headline no matter what, even if I was playing to seven people. I wanted people to be there to see me.
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Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I’d just be another guy in L.A. with a movie script in his drawer.
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A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
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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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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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Maybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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Somebody will come up to me after a show and have me sign their arm, and the next time I see them my autograph has been permanently inscribed on their arm.
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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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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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I’ve done a movie and a TV series, and someday I’d like to do a successful movie and a successful TV series. That would be nice.
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As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.
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