Weird Al Yankovic
speaker
271 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 22 May
Weird Al Yankovic’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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when I had the old family car and they had an old Lincoln Continental, something like that, and they were gonna follow me to college. It's like a four-hour drive. And I thought, well, they don't need to follow me to college, but all right. And I just remember as soon as we hit the 101 freeway, I gunned it. I lost them on the freeway. So that was sort of like my final act of rebellion.
It was the same night, yeah. That, yeah, it was, it wouldn't have been my decision. It was like, I, I, it was a lot of denial, you know, it was, uh, uh, unfathomable and, and obviously the, the hardest, uh, moment in my life.
Uh, and, and it, it, it took, you know, I, I just didn't want to let people down cause you know, uh, and I didn't want people to even know about it cause I didn't want people walking on eggshells around me or cause it's a comedy show. I didn't want to like, uh, you know, make people feel bad. And and I had an army of people working for me and people had made plans to come there.
So even though I was, you know, falling apart emotionally, I thought I got to pull it together and do this show. And Obviously, it wasn't easy. I'm a real the show must go on kind of guy, and I spent the whole night just trying to pretend like I hadn't just suffered the worst horror of my life.
to get through this show. I mean, every now and then, I'd sing a lyric referencing, like, my mother or whatever, and all of a sudden, it would, like, snap back in, like, oh, no! And then reality would hit for a second, and I had to, like, regain my composure and keep on with the show. But it was...
You know, I guess I'm pretty good at compartmentalizing because I was able to, you know, do my show, pretend like I was OK, smile on stage, do comedy and then go back to the bus and fall apart.
Pretty responsible. I mean, I like to think I'm a responsible guy and I, you know, I do things on time and I do what I'm supposed to do.
I guess mostly I just don't want to disappoint people. I don't want to cause hardships for others. Um, I mean, that, that's like a big thing for me. It was like, you know, what, whatever you do, don't make things worse. And I figured if I, if I canceled a bunch of shows, uh, I mean, a lot of people would be upset and a lot of people, you know, make, make their plans in life.
And I didn't want to ruin like thousands of people's plans. I didn't want to take people's livelihood away from them, the people that work for me. So I just figured the best way to do it would be to just kind of trudge through and do the shows. What I did do is I canceled all my interviews. I canceled all the meet and greets because I kind of didn't want to be around people.
All I wanted to do was do what I was supposed to do and then grieve privately.
It's very much that. I mean, thankfully, this was like well into the tour. So we weren't just kind of getting our sea legs. It was muscle memory because the show was established. We were used to doing it. And my body was on stage performing, whereas my mind was somewhere else. It was, you know, I felt like I was like levitating above the sky on stage doing this comedy routine. Yeah.
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