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.
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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There’s enough people that do unfunny music. I’ll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.
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Whenever I do a parody it’s not meant to make you hate anybody’s music really.
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Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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Ever since the day you left me, I’ve been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.
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I can’t say enough good things about my band. I feel very fortunate that I found them when I did, very early in my career.
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My own personal tastes don’t really have an effect on whether song is a parody target or not. But having said that,
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Like, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you’ll be watching TV, and it’ll be interrupted by some tragic event, and you’ll actually find yourself thinking,
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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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The window doesn’t open, the fan is broke, and my face is turning blue. I haven’t been in a crowd like this since I went to see the Who.
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Right now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.
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If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.
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I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.
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There aren’t that many superstars around anymore.
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I do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.
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