Earlier this week, I got to interview Weird Al over the phone. As you may not know but can probably guess, when I was younger I was a huge fan of his work. Weird Al was not just the first album I bought, he was the first several. I’ve written about his work several times on this blog¹, which basically means I enjoy writing about Weird Al in my free time for fun.

Al was very friendly and a real pleasure to talk to, and you can read the interview right now on CollegeHumor. Here’s a teaser:

CollegeHumor: You are by far the number one selling comedy musician of all time. Do you even know who number two is?

WA: Uh, I don’t.

CH: Why do you think there are no other Weird Als out there?

WA: I don’t know, I guess the zeitgeist only had room for one and I got it. I just started at the right time and had a few lucky breaks and worked hard at it and surrounded myself with talented people and I’ve just been very lucky I guess.

1. Past excerpts from JeffRubinJeffRubin.com

- “I really don’t know what to wear to the Weird Al concert.” - 10/19/07
- “Some of [Al]’s recent stuff is better than anything he’s ever done.” - 9/28/08
- “Really, it’s hard to believe Weird Al survived at all - much less thrived - before iTunes and YouTube.” - 10/8/08
- “All this thinking about Weird Al reminded me of one my all-time favorite Onion articles, “I Must Take Issue With the Wikipedia Entry for ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic.” I went back to read it, and I’m a little embarassed how much it resembles the blog post I wrote last night.” - 10/9/08