Name: "Weird Al" Yankovic Goes Beyond Insanity While Eating Spicy Wings | Hot Ones
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Everybody For first, we feast on Shaun Evans and you're watching hot ones.

It's the show with hot questions and even hotter wings.

And today we close out Season seven with Weird Al Yankovic.

He's a four time Grammy winner, a pop culture icon with more than 35 years in the game, and he's not slowing down one bit, either.

Tickets are on sale now for his strings attached to our coming to a city near you in 2019 Riddle.

You're not really I I love of Indian food and Thai food and Mexican food, but I usually order it medium.

So I'm not a big fan of the kind of food kind of spicy food that burns twice.

So your pathway into show business is not unlike the blueprint for many in 2018 whereby you have teenagers all over the globe, making music in their bedrooms and hoping that it finds an audience.

The difference between Weird Al and a Soundcloud wrapper, of course, is that you didn't have the benefit of the Internet in 1976.

When you look at this song parody genre and how it's exploded on YouTube, when are you proud of this monster you've helped create?

And then when you feel shame, Yeah, I definitely came upon the pre YouTube days, and there's a lot of people out there doing comedy videos and music parodies, and some people are doing extremely well and some people not so much.

I want to see somebody that it seems like.

Maybe I influence them in some way, and they're doing doing a great job to take a lot of pride in that.

And there are other times I look at the in it and say, What have I done?

You know, the Internet is a place where it seems like fax have almost no value, and you've experienced that an extremely nish way.

What's been the most annoying example of having to defend yourself against a parody song that's not even yours?

And in the Napster days, every single song parody on the period of peer sites were.

If it's the parodies were in Al, of course, it's weird out like and some of them over like, extremely profane, somewhere racist, somewhere just horrible.

You think these horrible, racist, profane songs like that?

No, that was not me, but I became sort of like the brain name.

I was like Xerox of parody music like People just assumed Well, it's a very It's out.

I know that you got your first start music when your parents signed you up for an accordion lesson.

And here you are, some 45 years later, still playing the instrument proudly in the accordion.

I feel like it's an instrument that gets a bad rap.

You know, people lump it in with the bagpipes at the ukulele.

One of these things that doesn't get taken seriously.

Do you think that That's unfair, in a way.

Yeah, because the accordion is, in all honesty, very essential instrument.

I always talk about Dick Contino, who's a famous according to her in the fifties, and he was afraid of Ah, sex symbol, accordion player.

I mean, you look at his album covers and he has a beautiful woman draped on his legs like, Oh, play the accordion for ASIO Dick canteen.

Oh, I think in the sixties with Lawrence Welk it became sort of like your grandma's music and became sort of unhip.

Uh, instrument, You know, the bellows create the dynamics can be very, very soft and be loud with it.

It flows, you know, which is one of the reasons why I think a lot of artists are now picking up on that recording is not that bad.

Do you know about the Scoville scale out, Uh, Aaron schools, one of my favorite singers.

So throughout your career, you've always made it a point to clear your ideas with these artists that you spoof, which has created a whole mythology around some of these run ins with high profile musicians.

What's been the most amusing interaction you've ever had when trying to get an artist blessing?

Um, when I first approached to Kurt Cobain from Nirvana, if I could do a radio, smells like Teen Spirit called him over the phone when he was doing Saturday Night Live and his immediate The first thing out of my mouth was Oh, great is gonna be a song about food because I was like the eating guy, you know, and I had to explain it.

It's gonna be a song about how nobody can understand your lyrics, you know?

Do you have a favorite Michael Jackson memory?

Um, one time I actually gave him a gold album for my album.

Even worse, which had the fat song on it.

And, uh, you know, I hate it was very nice and gracious.

I imagine he just threw it on his pile of gold albums, but he was always very sweet, very nice.

Soft spoken, seemed to appreciate the parodies, had a great sense of humor, which is a prouder accomplishment for you getting recognized by Paul McCartney at an industry party early on in your career.

Or having Kurt Cobain's say that Nirvana really made it when they got parody by Weird Out.

I mean, you know, I'm hugely flattered by both, but I mean, uh, when I met Paul McCartney for the first time in 1984 and he recognized me in a crowd that blew my mind, I gotta take Group is such a huge Beatles fan, and in fact, there's a There's a video from MTV where Martha Quinn is interviewing Paul McCartney and you can't see my head bobbing up in a Yeah, it blew my mind.

I introduced myself finally to him, he said.

I said, Hi, Mr McCartney and my name's Al Yankovic Weird Al and turns the Linda Look.

I like how the whole point of the show is to, uh is Thio torture public figures?

Invite people on your show and just, like, just punch them in the face and ask him a question.

And every time they answer questions, punch him again.

You know, we're always talking about how he can continue to up the ante.