Kind of wish I was dead. Maybe, I’ll blow my brains out, mama, or maybe I’ll go bowling.
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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I’m free to do what I please, I’m probably not going to do albums. Just because I think releasing tracks as singles is a better way for me to stay topical.
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I’m stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.
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I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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So I’m one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on ‘The Simpsons,’ which I’m very flattered by.
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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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I’ve learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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My velvet Elvis means the world to me. Although he may not be worth much dough, he means more to me than some old Rembrandt or Van Gogh.
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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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I decided that I wanted to be a voice on every animated cartoon in the history of the world – even shows that haven’t been on the air for a very long time, that’s going to be harder to pull off.
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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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I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.
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It’s very much a “Weird Al” themed issue, so I’d like to think that there’s a lot of “Weird Al” flavor throughout but I think it’d be generous really to call me an editor.
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So that’s why one of my rules of parody writing is that it’s gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.
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Pop culture’s gotten much more disposable.
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I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
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