I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.
AL YANKOVICNot 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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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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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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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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You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
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When I go to my live shows it’s often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
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That’s a big part of my life – doing things that I’m not prepared to do.
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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.
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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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I’ll be mellow when I’m dead.
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I am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.
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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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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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In a genre where most of the artists are one-hit wonders, I’ve been able to hang around longer than most “serious” acts. I pride myself in being a very talented leech.
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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I’d just be another guy in L.A. with a movie script in his drawer.
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