Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
AL YANKOVICThere 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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He died a long painful death. However, you’ll be happy to hear that just a few years later he was reincarnated as Shirley MacLaine.
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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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Right now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.
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I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
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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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What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist’s performance on whether or not they had a good seat?
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So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
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It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I’ve ever done, so it’s a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.
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If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I’d love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now.
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A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
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I love the way they run in fright when I turn on the kitchen light. And when I squish them on the ground, they make a pleasant crunchy sound.
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So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.
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I don’t watch anything on a regular basis – I tend to binge-watch things.
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