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.
AL YANKOVICThen I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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I decided that I wanted to be a voice on every animated cartoon in the history of the world – even shows that haven’t been on the air for a very long time, that’s going to be harder to pull off.
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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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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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I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.
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I’d like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them.
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The window doesn’t open, the fan is broke, and my face is turning blue. I haven’t been in a crowd like this since I went to see the Who.
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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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I know I’m a million times as humble as thou art!
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Right now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.
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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 like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.
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Didn’t have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
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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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I’ve learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.
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