When I go to my live shows it's often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
Al YankovicI write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I'll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points, and then I'll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
Al YankovicThere's enough people that do unfunny music. I'll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.
Al YankovicNot 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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