Ahead of a Syracuse, New York, stop on his “Bigger & Weirder” tour, Yankovic revealed to Syracuse.com in an interview published this week that he was offered “a nice pile of money” to appear in a commercial for business-focused software, but he backed out once he realized the ad would involve AI. “I’m not a fan of AI,” he said.

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    17 days ago

    In case the size of Weird Al’s balls was in question, here’s his response to a fan when the people who have the rights to his movie didn’t release it right away in Australia.

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          17 days ago

          I watched to 2022 movie “Weird: The AL Yankovic Story” It was crap, it would have been much better off as an honest biography.

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            17 days ago

            What do you mean? They very faithfully recreated his rise to fame exactly as it happened.

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            16 days ago

            Up until this comment, I thought everyone was talking about U/H/F

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              A few years ago I saw an interview with Emo Phillips and he held up a royalty check he’d just gotten in the mail for his appearance in that movie. It was for $1.37 or some such. He called UHF “the gift that keeps on giving”.

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            17 days ago

            Weird. I watched that same movie and it wasn’t crap. It was brilliant and entertaining.

            An honest biography would be worth watching, but infinitely more boring.