I’m an ugly girl, My face makes you hurl, Sad I have it, I should bag it. Acne everywhere, Unwanted facial hair. I’m a relation to Frankenstein’s creation.
AL YANKOVICAbout 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.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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By the time I’m in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
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How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you’re doing?
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People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
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I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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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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Kind of wish I was dead. Maybe, I’ll blow my brains out, mama, or maybe I’ll go bowling.
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In fact, when I come up with an idea for a parody I try to resist the urge to Google the idea to see if someone has done it already because the answer is almost always, “Yes, of course they have, they’ve thought of it!”
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That’s something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.
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Somebody will come up to me after a show and have me sign their arm, and the next time I see them my autograph has been permanently inscribed on their arm.
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Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they’re not all good!
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I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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One of the hardest things I’ve had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.
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