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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More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
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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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In the ’80s, I was the only game in town, I was the only one getting that kind of exposure in any rotation on MTV.
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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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People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
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Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
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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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Sometimes I get, “Have you ever thought about doing real music?” I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.
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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise.
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I’ll bet every great thinker and leader we’ve got Could see all kinds of things other people could not!
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I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing.
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I tend to enunciate pretty well. It’s always seemed that my voice is one of those voices that people can recognize pretty easily – which has been a bit of a drawback for some characters.
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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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That’s something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.
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