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“Weird Al” Yankovic Talks New Album, ATP, Upcoming Children’s Book

Revealed in this interview:  the children’s book, When I Grow Up, will be released on March 1, 2011 and will be a word-for-word duplication of the UHF script, oops no wait, I mean it’ll be about a curious monkey named George, no wait, it’s about a boy hoping to someday be the subject of a book by Weird Al and other careers.  Yeah, I think that’s it.

“Inside the Magic”, the longest-running Disney podcast in the world, gets an intimate one-on-one interview with Weird Al just before his Orlando show and asks him all about one of my favorite songs “Skipper Dan” plus other Disney related connections with Al.

Super hush hush secret revealed:  The Skipper Dan costume used in concert is authentic and was recovered from the  grave of a former Skipper captain who met an untimely demise when battling those hungry, hungry hippos.  Amazing!

[Thanks Gil for the link]

Check out the lastest podcast from Nerdist.com:

http://www.nerdist.com/2010/05/nerdist-podcast-17-weird-al-yankovic/

(Thanks Greg!)

So Al tweeted a pay phone number at the airport yesterday where he said he’d be available for a quick chat for 15 minutes.

Twitter / Al Yankovic: Killing time at LAX…

I tried the number and not surprisingly it was busy.  Just curious if anybody actually managed to get through and what did you two talk about?  Anyone?

On Friday, Weird Al was on Comedy Death-Ray on Indie1031.com with Scott Aukerman and the two ladies from the comedy group Garfunkel and Oates.    It’s a hilarious interview including a cover of “One More Minute” by G&O which is very NOT family-friendly, and a very thorough discussion about spiders, amorphous blobs, and bathroom attendants.

Download the entire interview from their podcast

Received this note recently:

I’m with a little radio show called The Mad House. Well I wanted to let you know that we have an interview with Jim West on March 17th. The shows website is blogtalkradio.com/the-mad-house and our myspace is http://www.myspace.com/themadhouseradio. The show airs Wednesdays @ 8 pm pt.

Thanks,
-Ron

This Saturday (Jan 23rd), Weird Al talks with that guy he’s always with.  You know who I’m talking about.  Yeah THAT guy… AGAIN!  You’d think they would have talked about everything there is to talk about by now.  But NOOOOO.  What?  No I’m not jealous… shut up! Well if you’re in the area then head on over to Cobb’s Comedy Club and watch them talk about… um… stuff.  Then Al will introduce a showing of UHF at midnight at the Clay Theatre.  Nice!

http://www.cobbscomedyclub.com/calendar.html#weirdal

Just a reminder to catch the Biography channel tonight (Tues Jan 5) for William Shatner’s Raw Nerve at 10pm Eastern.  Also, just before that, they are showing the one hour Biography special on Al.  So tune in 9pm Eastern for the whole thing.

Here’s another TV alert.  If you get the Biography Channel, then make sure to watch William Shatner’s Raw Nerve on Tuesday January 5 at 10pm ET for a half-hour interview with Weird Al.

Host William Shatner sits down with Grammy Award-winning artist Weird Al Yankovic. Shatner talks to Weird Al about his early days as a DJ on college radio and his turnabout from architecture student to parodying famous hits. Yankovic discusses the tragic death of his parents, his concerns about the environment and the oddities of being in the music industry.

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Weird Al will be ham for the holidays

Interview from the A.V. Club on the upcoming RiffTrax LIVE: Christmas Shorts-Stravaganza event, the Essential Weird Al Yankovic compilation, his past Christmas songs, and his holiday plans in general.  Al mentions “There’s the yearly bobbing for pork, of course.”  Well, since Al is vegetarian, I’m guessing it’s some sort of tofu pork… maybe it’s called TOFORK.   If there’s no such thing, I have the perfect slogan for this new product: “TOFORK: It’s exactly as tasty as it sounds.”   Where’s my royalties?