I don’t really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I’ve never been to therapy so there’s probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don’t know.
AL YANKOVICBy the time I’m in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
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Sometimes I get, “Have you ever thought about doing real music?” I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.
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I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.
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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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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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Many years ago I found out something about hamburgers that really grossed me out. You may not know this, so I hope I don’t make you sick, but it turns out hamburgers are actually made out of dead cows.
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I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.
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I’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
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I’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.
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There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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You still have Top 40 radio now, but it’s 40 different stations. There aren’t many hits that everybody knows, and there aren’t many real superstars.
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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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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 was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
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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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