They do everything from gangsta rap to polka music and every genre in between. It’s amazing.
AL YANKOVICThey do everything from gangsta rap to polka music and every genre in between. It’s amazing.
AL YANKOVICIf something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.
AL YANKOVICI’d rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.
AL YANKOVICWell 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.
AL YANKOVICI know I’m a million times as humble as thou art!
AL YANKOVICIt’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.
AL YANKOVICIt’s hard to say, I picked one of my favorite articles for the MAD vault. Which is one of the features of the Magazine so they don’t have to actually pay artists or writers to come up with new stuff.
AL YANKOVICAs a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.
AL YANKOVICI love the way they run in fright when I turn on the kitchen light. And when I squish them on the ground, they make a pleasant crunchy sound.
AL YANKOVICI am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.
AL YANKOVICI’ll be mellow when I’m dead.
AL YANKOVICI can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
AL YANKOVICNow with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they’re not all good!
AL YANKOVICI suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, ‘OK, this is what I’m going to do for a living and I’m going to be Weird Al.’
AL YANKOVICThe 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.
AL YANKOVICIn fact, when I come up with an idea for a parody I try to resist the urge to Google the idea to see if someone has done it already because the answer is almost always, “Yes, of course they have, they’ve thought of it!”
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