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Al Yankovic

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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Different Difficult Figure Out Same Sometimes Thing
I tend to enunciate pretty well. It’s always seemed that my voice is one of those voices that people can recognize pretty easily – which has been a bit of a drawback for some characters.
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Always Character Drawback Easily Enunciate People Pretty Recognize Seem Tenth Voice
Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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Big Chunk Dinner Dirt Every Night Reality
When I go to my live shows it’s often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
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Experience Family Bond Live Show
I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
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Abuduct Fair Kind Look Space
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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Accept Comedy Community Feel Gratifying Like Music Somewhere Start
I’m just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.
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Boot Esteem Good Grovel Hunk Low Nose Self Slime Worthless
I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
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Assimilate Call Culture Gotten More Nerd Think Want
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’ll bet every great thinker and leader we’ve got Could see all kinds of things other people could not!
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Every Great Kind Leader Not Other People Thing Upset
A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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Artist Supportive Year
If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.
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Enough Good People See Something
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
And then I’ll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
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Arrange Cohesive Semi Story Try Way
I’d rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.
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Bathroom Clean Grand Minute Spend Station Tongue
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
My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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Book Decison Enetr Parody Personal Read
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
You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
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Bungee Love Lower Relationship Strand Tower
I was able to come up with a couple articles for the magazine, I was able to solicit help from a bunch of my friends to contribute pieces: Patton Oswalt, Seth Green, Emo Phillips, Chris Hardwick, John Hodgman, and more.
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Able Article Bunch Come Couple Friend Magazine Solicit
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
People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.
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Get Better People School
How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you’re doing?
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Audience Bore Cheer Do Parody Something
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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Bulk Finish Fit Mandatory Nicely Pretty Promotion Scheule
One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don’t realize there’s a lot of craft behind the comedy.
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Band Comedy One Overlook Peeve Pet Problem Realize Same Sometimes Talent
I have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes.
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History Long Respect Stand Wish
I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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Hard Know Label Like Myself Pigeon

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