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People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.

Al Yankovic

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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It’s hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.
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Articulate Enough Idea Make Movie Parameter Song
Not any specific one, but I was a huge fan of Frank Jacobs, I guess he wrote the plurality of the song parodies for MAD, Sam Hart, a few others, but that was also where I was first exposed to the art form of song parodies.
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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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I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing.
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Accordion Amuse Cut Extreme Paly Rock Song Teenage
I don’t want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones’?’
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About four or five months ago, at a dinner in New York, John made the very nice offer of my being guest editor for an issue of MAD and I thought about it for about half a nanosecond and decided that was a pretty good idea.
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There are probably a few library fines I haven’t paid yet, but I’m a pretty clean-cut guy overall.
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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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I’ve always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That’s something that I’ve been proactive about.
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Alway Animation Been Enjoy Proactive Something Voiceover Work
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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Sometimes I get, “Have you ever thought about doing real music?” I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.
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My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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I don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
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It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
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Creativity Force Hard Humor
My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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