At this point I’ve got a bit of a track record. So people realize that when ‘Weird Al’ wants to go parody, it’s not meant to make them look bad… it’s meant to be a tribute.
AL YANKOVICAs it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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It fit pretty nicely into my schedule because we’d pretty much finished the bulk of promotion for Mandatory Fun and were just getting geared up for the World Tour so this was a nice time for me to be working on it.
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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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I think that was the genesis of my polka medleys, because every rock song I played on the accordion just sounded like a polka and my friends thought it was funny.
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I’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
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I am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.
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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 don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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I have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I’m concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the Internet is severely eating into my album sales and having a decidedly adverse effect on my career.
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Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they’re not all good!
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About four or five months ago, at a dinner in New York, John made the very nice offer of my being guest editor for an issue of MAD and I thought about it for about half a nanosecond and decided that was a pretty good idea.
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I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
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It’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.
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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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