Yank Blog

Phew, been a busy week.  I’ll just gather up all the video links into one nice group here…

• Jimmy Fallon interview
• Performing CNR
• Special performance of Good Old Days
• Interview on CNN (thanks to wrdalfn for heads up)
• Kevin Pollak Chat Show Archives – In case they change the link again, I’ll just link to the overall archives.  It’s a really great, well-researched interview that lasts about two hours.  On the bottom right of the page, they do provide links to download the audio and the video of the entire session.  Awesome!

Whoa, Al tweets that he’s gonna be on CNN very soon. Which I think should be around 2:30pm Eastern/1:30pm Central. There’s not a whole lot of detail on this, so start watching early.

Hope you get this message in time.

Hope you got to see Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night.  If not, the entire episode should show up in their archives very soon.  In the meantime, if you live in the US, you can watch a web-only exclusive video of Weird Al singing “Good Old Days” with The Roots during which he can be seen briefly tweeting something.  heh.

Plus check out the Late Night blog for this fun read:
5 Things About “Weird” Al Yankovic That I’m Not Yankin’ Your Chain About

Just a friendly reminder, watch tonight’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (Wed Oct 28) for Al’s performance of CNR.

Also, it looks like the video archive of Kevin Pollak’s Chat Show with Weird Al is back online again.
Check it out at:  http://kevinpollakchatshow.blip.tv/file/2779420/

Update: Kevin Pollak link has been changed again.

Now you can order The Essential Weird Al Yankovic through Amazon for all your friends and family.

As Al mentioned before, this album is probably not for the hardcore fans, but of course they make great Halloween treats for the neighborhood kids. Or how about 8 awesome nights of Hannukah presents? Aw yeah, that would be great.

By the way, don’t forget to catch Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday night to catch Al’s performance.

Al tweets with:

In case you missed my interview-a-thon with @kevinpollak, you can witness it at http://bit.ly/4hd3oB – or download the free iTunes podcast!

KPCS – Ep. 29 with “Weird Al” Yankovic.

Update: Hmm, that’s odd.  The video seems to have been removed by the owner.  Will let you know if there’s any more news on this.

On this very day FIFTY years ago, Alfred Matthew Yankovic opened his eyes for the first time and the world hasn’t been the same ever since. Holy cow, FIFTY?!?  The roman numeral L?!? One squared plus seven squared?!?  Five squared plus five squared?!?!?  Two squared factorial times two plus two?!?  Wow!

What will the quintessentially quirky quinquagenarian do to mark this occassion?  Parody “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover”?  Something by 50 cent?  Get himself put on the $50 bill?

Happy Birthday Weird Al from all of us at Yank Blog!

From the Jay Leno Show, actor Rainn Wilson shows us some of his favorite Halloween pranks:

http://www.thejaylenoshow.com/video/clips/rainn-wilson-plays-earn-your-plug/1168750

Photo by qtschlepper

Updated today on WeirdAl.com:

KEVIN POLLAK CHAT SHOW!
Al will be Kevin’s prisoner on the Kevin Pollak Chat Show, starting Sunday
at 5 PM PDT. kevinpollakschatshow.com

Got this heads-up by a fellow named Greg:

Just FYI,
MC Lars’ video for “True Player for Real” is the free video on iTunes right now.

I did have trouble with the link he sent me, but was able to search for MC Lars and found the free video featuring Weird Al on the accordion on iTunes easily enough. Thanks Greg!