Well I’ve made no secret of my life long love of MAD Magazine, it’s probably my first and greatest influence in terms of my comic sensibilities. I’ve known John [Ficarra] for many years, and we’ve been friends.
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More Al Yankovic Quotes
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When I swore that you’re getting more and more beautiful everyday. Well, I was only kidding, honey.
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Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.
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I don’t watch anything on a regular basis – I tend to binge-watch things.
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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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I’m free to do what I please, I’m probably not going to do albums. Just because I think releasing tracks as singles is a better way for me to stay topical.
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I’m stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.
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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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I’m just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.
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It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.
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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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So that’s why one of my rules of parody writing is that it’s gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.
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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 hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
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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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