There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
AL YANKOVICKind of wish I was dead. Maybe, I’ll blow my brains out, mama, or maybe I’ll go bowling.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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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Doing things that I don’t know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them.
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You can try on our suede underwear if you choose. Do what you want, but don’t step on my blue suede shoes.
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I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.
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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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I’m an ugly girl, My face makes you hurl, Sad I have it, I should bag it. Acne everywhere, Unwanted facial hair. I’m a relation to Frankenstein’s creation.
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So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.
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Pop culture’s gotten much more disposable.
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I was a huge fan of ‘Mad’ magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I’d scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I’d wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.
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As it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.
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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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My own personal tastes don’t really have an effect on whether song is a parody target or not. But having said that,
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Not 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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The music has always been my bread and butter, and I’ve focused more of my attention on that.
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