Al on Varney & Company--Fox Business Channel

[amzo39]

this is the funniest of all time

Mod edit: language, sir.


amerah edit: i am a girl

[TMBJon]

Any excuse to turn a topic about Al into a political point, right Jon.

So despite this trollish comment from Bruce, it turns out this interview is getting quite a bit of viral traction (more than the Handy video!) for exactly the reasons I mentioned.

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When "Weird Al" Yankovic stopped by Fox Business on Thursday to promote his new album, he ended up having to explain the economics of Internet comedy.

Yankovic has been all over the Internet the past few days, releasing one music video per day from his new album, “Mandatory Fun." As of Thursday, he had released videos for “Tacky,” “Word Crimes," “Foil” and "Handy." He says he'll release four more in the coming days.

A part of his promotion, for some reason, included a visit to “Varney & Company,” where host Stuart Varney grilled the parody artist about how he makes money online.

“How do you make the money when you’re putting it out on the Internet?” Varney asked of the new releases.

Yankovic politely explained how partners like Funny or Die, CollegeHumor, Yahoo and Nerdist paid for the production of the videos and allowed him to make them for free in the hopes of getting people excited for his album.

“Yeah, well, come on, come on. How do you get the money?” Varney persisted.

Yankovic, never losing his charm or composure, explained again how the videos are essentially a commercial for the album and not necessarily for profit.

“Can you make a million dollars for each of the eight videos that you’re putting out?” Varney then asked, ignoring everything the artist had just said.

“Yes, yes of course, why did I argue with you!?” Yankovic joked.

Sometimes you just have to let it go and dance it out.

[Skippy]

Big difference between improvising against comedians vs a cable news pundit!! I think Al is afraid he would not look as funny as the other comedians, but against this d-bag? No problem!

Against? That's not how improv works.

From what I've seen of Al in interviews, I think he'd be great at improv, but if he[/] doesn't think so, then it probably wouldn't go very well.

[Bruce the Duck]

From what I've seen of Al in interviews, I think he'd be great at improv, but if he[/] doesn't think so, then it probably wouldn't go very well.

You're definitely right. He's improved his quick-thinking skills over the years. And of course, improv artists work off each other, so this interview shows how well he could handle that. I'd love to see him improv a duet on Whose Line.

[TMBJon]

Against? That's not how improv works.

I mean that if he is on stage with comedians, he is being compared against their performances. Whereas when he is improvising responses to a dopey cable news pundit, it's pretty easy to come off as the funny one. Perhaps just a dumb word choice on my part.

[mellow weasel]

I think when Al says he's not good in improvising, he means he couldn't just tell jokes from the top of his head; but he can seize and use a funny situation when he sees one. For example, I can be funny when talking to people (not Al level of course, but my friends think I'm funny ), but only if there's specific situation that I can make fun of – I can't just tell jokes whenever I want.

[rangerbob]

what a great insight to the future of music and how music gets sold to the public. I think al is always ahead of his time in the business side of music.

[weird user]

This was a funny interview.

Al mentioned how the various websites paid for the music videos to be made. I wonder if those companies own the rights to the music videos, or if the rights are owned by Sony or whoever owns the existing music videos.

[yankochick38]

This was so funny ohmygosh
I loved Al's reactions to everything like when Varney brought up Time Warner he was like
And the whole "YES YOU ARE RIGHT WHY AM I ARGUING" omg
Who is the king of content????
So much love for Al and his quick wit and his intelligence ugh MARRY me
Al never change.
Or do if you want it's your life.