At this point I’ve got a bit of a track record. So people realize that when ‘Weird Al’ wants to go parody, it’s not meant to make them look bad… it’s meant to be a tribute.
AL YANKOVICWell 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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I have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes.
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I do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it’s very difficult to figure out where I fit.
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I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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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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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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When I go to my live shows it’s often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
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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 don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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One of the hardest things I’ve had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.
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It fit pretty nicely into my schedule because we’d pretty much finished the bulk of promotion for Mandatory Fun and were just getting geared up for the World Tour so this was a nice time for me to be working on it.
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Kind of wish I was dead. Maybe, I’ll blow my brains out, mama, or maybe I’ll go bowling.
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I am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.
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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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I don’t want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that’s more my personal taste.
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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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