One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don’t realize there’s a lot of craft behind the comedy.
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 think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
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It doesn’t take a military genius to see we’ll all be crispy critters after World War III.
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A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.
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He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.
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In the ’80s, I was the only game in town, I was the only one getting that kind of exposure in any rotation on MTV.
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You don’t need to be defined by your job.
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I know I’m a million times as humble as thou art!
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And then I’ll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
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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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I’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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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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As a wise man once said, “April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people’s heads.”
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Maybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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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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