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

Al Yankovic

I love the way they run in fright when I turn on the kitchen light. And when I squish them on the ground, they make a pleasant crunchy sound.
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Fright Ground Kitchen Light Love Pleasant Run Sound Squish
You can try on our suede underwear if you choose. Do what you want, but don’t step on my blue suede shoes.
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Choose Our Shoe Step Suede Underwear Want
Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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Big Chunk Dinner Dirt Every Night Reality
So I’m one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on ‘The Simpsons,’ which I’m very flattered by.
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Celebrity Few Flatter Perform Repeat
That’s something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.
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Gateway Kid Lesbian Read Something Witchcraft
I don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
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Any Cover Media New Think
So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
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Crazy Drive Know Pick Song Try
I’m stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.
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Gas Pump Self Service Station Stranded Use
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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Appreciate Favorite Guitar Kind Modern Music Personal Pooh Pop
Many years ago I found out something about hamburgers that really grossed me out. You may not know this, so I hope I don’t make you sick, but it turns out hamburgers are actually made out of dead cows.
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Gross Hamburger Many Out Sick Something Year
I have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I’m concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the Internet is severely eating into my album sales and having a decidedly adverse effect on my career.
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Career Concern Copyright Download Feel Hand MIxed One Rampant Song
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
People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.
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Album Birth Give Operation People
My wife went off with Elvis.
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Off Went Wife
I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.
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Actual Best Most Obvious Route Sometimes Try
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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Funny Gotta Know Material Merit Parody Regard Rule Source Write

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

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

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