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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.

Al Yankovic

Not only are they just great, nice guys; they’re some of the best musicians you’re likely to find.
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Best Find Great Guy Just Likely Musician Nice Some
At this point I’ve got a bit of a track record. So people realize that when ‘Weird Al’ wants to go parody, it’s not meant to make them look bad… it’s meant to be a tribute.
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Bad Bookstore Look Point Record Scour Track Tribute Try
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
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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Album Career Deel Keep Material Three Topical Year
I always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I’ll catch up.
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Along Catch Comfort Hopefully Somewhere Try
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
It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
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Creativity Force Hard Humor
I dated Siamese twins, I slept with Big Foot, too. Get me on Sally Jesse, put me on Donahue.
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Big Date Foot Put Sally Siamese Slept Too Twin
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
So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.
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Continue Day Joke That Up Very
I start with a comprehensive list of all the recent songs that have been big hits – and then I go down that list and see if I can come up with funny ideas for them. I can always come up with ideas, but not necessarily good ones!
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Been Big Down Hit Idea List Recent Song
In the ’80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear – that if I didn’t, people would soon forget about me.
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Album Based Eighty Every Fear Forget Mostly People Put Think Virtual Year
I was a huge fan of ‘Mad’ magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I’d scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I’d wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.
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Around Bookstore Fan Find Huge Issue Life Magazine Old Scour Revolve
Well I’ve made no secret of my life long love of MAD Magazine, it’s probably my first and greatest influence in terms of my comic sensibilities. I’ve known John [Ficarra] for many years, and we’ve been friends.
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Country First Great Influence Mad Made Nice Probably Secret Year
I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.
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Coming Drive Excite Guitar Lot Music Nirvana Point
Kind of wish I was dead. Maybe, I’ll blow my brains out, mama, or maybe I’ll go bowling.
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Blow Brain Kind Mama Maybe Suicide Wish

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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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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