World of Weird Al Yankovic

Microwaved_Head @ Apr 26 2006, 11:01 AM wrote: How can anyone expect an interviewee to enjoy talking to you when you're that rude?

Well, to some interviewers, celebrities (particularly anyone comedic) are regarded as nothing more than performing monkeys.

But then again I just hope nobody's confusing these guys for actual journalists. In most cases, if your press pass has the word ".com" anywhere on it, you're just a hack.

CatraDhtem @ Apr 26 2006, 05:25 PM wrote: But then again I just hope nobody's confusing these guys for actual journalists. In most cases, if your press pass has the word ".com" anywhere on it, you're just a hack.

That sounds about right!

i read that article a long time ago when i was web surfing info about al back when i first became an Al fan. After i read that i thought that maybe he wasnt what i thjought he was but after a while of thinking and finding other stuff i concluded that those guys were just jerks. and now i'm over my oh no is weird al just some sad depressed guy who has to do all this. especially when i realized hey this guy is human and maybe he just doesnt want to go crazy before he has to be on stage of hours.

Exactly, crazygurl. Al isn't one of those performers who has to be "on" all the time. He's funny onstage & off, but offstage he doesn't seem to feel the need to prove it incessantly. I've seen him backstage a couple of times, and what impressed me most strongly was how quiet and gracious he was, and how perfectly ok he was with not always being the center of everybody's attention. But those tweak dweebs wouldn't recognize graciousness if it smacked them upside the head like a dead mackerel.

~OE, off to do a little remedial work in similes.