Al on Tom Green . . . Reviews!

Post by **scottidog** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 8:41 am

Did I find a word OE doesn't know the meaning of??? According to this site, yes I did!

I couldn't verify it at dictionary.com because they didn't have gruntled. They thought perhaps I meant grunted.

CatraDhtem · Post by **CatraDhtem** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 8:44 am

QUOTE I was wondering if I am the only who is tired of people always asking Al about the Coolio thing. Because it seems like every interveiw Al does he gets asked about it.

That's something that's also been bugging me recently. While watching the Tom Green interview, you kind of get the sense of "Weird Al on autopilot."

Granted there is always bound to be a question that Al has been asked numerous times before, but man.....bringing up both the Coolio thing and the "new" look? Sheesh...if we need to hear about topics from a previous decade, I'd rather hear Al again explain where he got the idea for "Like A Surgeon."

Seriously, did Tom ask anything new at all? That dumb story about his poem doesn't count, since it wasn't really a question to Al.

Unfortunately without a music video, Al has to grab whatever publicity he can this time around....even if that means sitting through clueless interviews on doomed talk show and news network entertainment updates.

sarley27 · Post by **sarley27** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 4:05 pm

Well, I thank Tom for not asking anything stupid, and doing some research.

Sun Jul 13, 2003 5:28 pm

Wow, I didn't think "gruntled" was a real word.

I think I've been reading too many books by Richard Lederer.

"My, you're looking kempt this morning!"

Website · Post by **Teh Dingo** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 5:53 pm

We're not crazy, we're just a little unwell.

Post by **Squirrelygirl** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 7:27 pm

That is so discouraging to hear talk show interviews where the interviewer

doesn't even bother to learn the first thing about their guest. That's not

only unprofessional, it's rather discourteous. Even I get tired of hearing the same questions over & over & over, and I don't hear half the interviews that Al does. I can't imagine how he manages to rein in his temper.

I remember when Roseanne introduced IAATP as "It's All About the Premiums", and asked Al how he liked working in the video store in his

younger days (somehow apparently confusing him with Quentin Tarrantino :crazy: ).

It was, however, rather original when she asked Al if he wanted to have sex with her and then sat on him. :nervous: OK, now that's one thing that

probably wasn't in Al's press kit.

Post by **TMBJon** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 7:40 pm

what exactly do you want these people to ask al?

99% of the people watching these shows aren't die hard al fans and its better for everyone's publicity to answer stupid questions that we already know the answer to. for obscure answers, we have Ask Al

Post by **scottidog** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 10:11 pm

I don't know... if I wasn't a fan, but was anticipating interviewing someone, I would do a little research. Trust me, Tom Green has people who do this stuff for him. A few minutes spent at weirdal.com would steer you away from asking at least that stuff.

And wouldn't you want an interview on your show to be different from other interviews with the same artist. The best interviewers go off the press kit anyway.

Dave Letterman would have done a much better job. A Conan interview would rock. Leno probably wouldn't have done any better, but he wouldn't have wasted valuable time on the tin cans.

Jimmy Fallon... now there's an interesting possibility.

Post by **TMBJon** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 10:18 pm

i read thru this whole topic and no one really has given a good breakdown of what happened in detail. could anyone do this? it figured i'd see every episode of a show ever except for one episode.

Website · Post by **Teh Dingo** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 10:23 pm

Jimmy Fallon has "Destined to host The Tonight Show after Leno finally leaves" written all over him. And then Conan will get all mad and CBS will take him to replace Letterman when he leaves (Letterman's had all kinds of health issues lately), and the cycle will begin anew.