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Weird Al Yankovic talking about how he has to work to differentiate himself from YouTubers.

What a crazy world we live in!

Not a question, but a comment:

This is one of the more surprisingly-entertaining AMA(A)'s I've read. Your smart-ass comments are hilarious, and your serious answers are concise yet informative. I also like how there are some examples of you giving a smart-ass response to a serious question, then follow-up immediately with a second, serious response.

Good stuff. I'm going to buy Blood Dragon because of this.

I find this AMA to be unintentionally educational. It shows that even an accomplished, veteran comedic writer can still make amateur mistakes.

A few years ago, I took a class in improv comedy. In the very first exercise of the very first class, I made a stupid joke, and the teacher immediately called me out on it.

"One of the basic rules of improv comedy: don't go for the joke." He said. "The jokes will happen."

Apparently, one of the core ideas of improv is that the best comedy happens organically. You shouldn't force it. Funny people can take something as seemingly boring as talking to a friend in a park and figure out a way to turn it something genuinely entertaining.

So there I was - some doofus taking an intro class in comedy - making one of the biggest mistakes an amateur could make. And here we have a successful professional who has been writing for The Dailiy Show for 16 years making the very same mistake.

Not only is this strangely educational, but it's strangely reassuring as well.

TL; DR: Comedy is hard.

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Man, a lot of respect for you in having a successful small business. I tried it, but I hated doing the things that entrepreneurs need to do. One of them being reaching out to prospective clients using social media. Kudos to you for being able to do that, well!

Would you say that social media marketing takes up a big chunk of your time, week-to-week?