There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
AL YANKOVICI was able to come up with a couple articles for the magazine, I was able to solicit help from a bunch of my friends to contribute pieces: Patton Oswalt, Seth Green, Emo Phillips, Chris Hardwick, John Hodgman, and more.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
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A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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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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I’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
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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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He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.
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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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It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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Somebody will come up to me after a show and have me sign their arm, and the next time I see them my autograph has been permanently inscribed on their arm.
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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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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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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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They somehow didn’t see the need for an accordion player. That’s when I realized that I had to find my own path in life.
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Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they’re not afraid of wolves.
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Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I’d just be another guy in L.A. with a movie script in his drawer.
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