"Weird Al" Yankovic | Club Random with Bill Maher
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Why did Bill Maher move from his first house to a new one?
Nice digs, man. Like your place.
You know, I say this every time somebody says that, but I'm it you're not everybody. I know it's been afflux beer. Yeah, he used to own this. Uh I I without the music it this place really needs music, but we can't have music as we're talking. But like it is a nightclub. It's supposed to be it was before it was a podcast studio. This is where I partied. When I m bought this place, this thing room was filled with video games. Yeah w which I'm the least interested in video games, you know. That came with a house? That's what Ben had here, I think. You know. And uh it was just very different, but it was but the structure was the same and it was so cool. It was crooked. You saw the door is crooked. It's just like it's built on a hill on the side.
It's just weird and I always loved it. You just feel it so you just feel a vibe about a place.
Where do where do you live? Not too far away. I I'm up um uh in the Hollywood Hills, like uh in the Bird Streets, like up like Oh sure.
Yeah. And like how long you been in that house? Uh bottles only show about twenty years. Okay, so you were mature enough when you move there to be I feel like at a certain point in life, like you know where you're supposed to live. You walk into it and you just go, Oh yeah. I'm supposed to live here.
Mm-hmm.
Whereas when you're young I'm living in an apartment where it just like it's whatever I could get. Right, right. For the money. You know. But I felt like when I w walked into my house, which is not here d you know, it's over the it's it's near here. Yeah, yeah. Uh I said, Oh yeah. First of all, it's it's built for a single person. Like very few houses are built that way. They're built for families. Right. But mine's like There's only one other bedroom beside the master bedroom, but then there's like a nice closet and a outer office and an office. It's just not built for kids.
Yeah. But was this your first like kind of big house?
This is my third house and I feel like I went like up the ladder. Like you the first house was like the first one you can afford. Right. It it's in a struggling neighborhood. Mine was. I moved 'cause the hookers started to live on the corn live well live, but they started to uh congregate on my corner. I lived right below sunset. A little east of Fairfax, right where Hugh Grant got his blow job.
Okay. Remember the
famous I know
the plaque on the f on the corner there, yeah.
Yeah. And uh that was the neighborhood and I mem you know, the the first house it's it's You can't believe you're gonna go from like I think my rent was three fifty. And now I'm gonna have a mortgage of fourteen hundred. It was like, Holy shit, what did I just do?
I feel like uh you exploded in the early eight it was like eighty three or something.
It was like eighty four. And I remember my my my first place was. What year was My Bologna? Gosh, my well, My Bologna was not, you know uh that was it was n seventy nine was the original Seventy nine? When it came out the origin first time, yeah.
Oh, cause that's interesting 'cause that was my very first year in Shrub business. I mean, that's why f my first year out of college. That's when I moved to New York and like started to hang out at the improv and catch a rising star and And it's very weird, you know, I almost called myself Weird Bill. Even you know, even we're weirder, I almost called myself Weird Bill Yankovic. Really made crazy. What are the odds? And I must say, uh I always thought when I uh heard your name. I always thought anybody who's named weird, like that's it they must be like the most normal guy in the world.
It's like an ironic Nickel l like huge people are called tiny, you know, that kind of thing. Exactly. Am I right? Yes. Right.
It it you seem you just you radiate normal when you're not doing your craziness. Yeah. It's great that you can uh be crazy like the Right. It's a nice job
description, why not?
As opposed to like what else would you have done in life? Right? I don't know. What are your other skills? Yeah, well I I got a degree. Where do you see yourself in five years?
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
Why did Bill Maher move from his first house to a new one?
0:01–13:02
2
What birthday gift did Al’s wife give him and why is it special?
13:02–29:27
3
What is the most common joke that shows up in writers’ rooms?
29:27–44:34
4
Which famous alumni attended Al’s high school?
44:34–58:02
5
How is the new Weird Al biopic “Weird” being approached as a parody of biopics?
58:02–1:10:06
6
What happened to Sacheen Littlefeather after she accepted Marlon Brando’s Oscar?
1:10:06–1:12:43