How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you’re doing?
AL YANKOVICI’m always a little leery about doing shows where I’m not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and got pelted for 45 minutes.
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They do everything from gangsta rap to polka music and every genre in between. It’s amazing.
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I’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
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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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Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
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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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In the ’80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear – that if I didn’t, people would soon forget about me.
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I do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.
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Not only are they just great, nice guys; they’re some of the best musicians you’re likely to find.
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You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.
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I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children’s book was something that I’d been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.
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So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
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You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
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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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There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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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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