There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can’t think of a clever enough idea.
AL YANKOVICIf money can’t buy happiness, then I guess I’ll have to rent it.
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I’m just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.
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I mean, I hate to gloat, but I’m extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out for me.
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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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I don’t watch a lot of other people’s parodies because I don’t want to be unduly influenced.
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I don’t want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones’?’
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There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can’t think of a clever enough idea.
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Whenever I do a parody it’s not meant to make you hate anybody’s music really.
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So that’s why one of my rules of parody writing is that it’s gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.
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And then I’ll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
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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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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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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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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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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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