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Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.

Al Yankovic

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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Eighty Exposure Game Getting Kind One Only Rotation Town
There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can’t think of a clever enough idea.
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Candidate Clever Enough Good Ostensibly Parody Song Think
If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I’d love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now.
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Another Find Involve Just Kind Motivate Movie Property Right Screenplay Tie
Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.
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Bottle Coke End Got Left Nestle Record Stuck Sun Tongue
You still have Top 40 radio now, but it’s 40 different stations. There aren’t many hits that everybody knows, and there aren’t many real superstars.
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Everybody Forty Know Radio Show Still Superstar
By the time I’m in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
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Parody Recording Song Studio Time YouTube
Some songs are too repetitive for me to be able to fashion a humorous set of lyrics around. Some songs flat-out just don’t work creatively for me.
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Around Creatively Humorous Lyric Repetitive Some Song
A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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Basic Cartoon Natural Variation Voice
You fake something until you’re good at it.
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Fake Good Something Until
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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Album Best Done Go Important Next Self Thing Time
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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Amuse Down Edit Help Notebook Part Storyline Think Write
It doesn’t take a military genius to see we’ll all be crispy critters after World War III.
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Critter Genius Look Military Peace School Second War World
I am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.
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Discover Entirely Gave Make Meat Needless Soon Up
My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
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Gradually Hobby Sort Vocation
I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, ‘OK, this is what I’m going to do for a living and I’m going to be Weird Al.’
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Bathroom Fantastic Go Hairbrush Live Mirror OK Rock Sing Star Suppose Weird
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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Movie Nice Series Successful Television Would

Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.

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