Al Yankovic Quotes, Funny Quotes, Writing Quotes

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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I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.

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I know now that everything I write, I'm going to put out, and I'll have to live with it for the rest of my life.

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People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.

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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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I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes.

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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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I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.

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People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?'

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Well I've made no secret of my life long love of MAD Magazine, it's probably my first and greatest influence in terms of my comic sensibilities. I've known John [Ficarra] for many years, and we've been friends. About four or five months ago, at a dinner in New York, John made the very nice offer of my being guest editor for an issue of MAD and I thought about it for about half a nanosecond and decided that was a pretty good idea.

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Ever since the day you left me, I've been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.

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I've learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.

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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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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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That's a big part of my life - doing things that I'm not prepared to do. Doing things that I don't know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them. I always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I'll catch up.

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I'm stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.

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It's hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.

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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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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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Nows the time to go for all the gusto you can grab. You'll have plenty of time to be low-key when you're laid out on the slab.

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