Remember Quisp Cereal? (with "Weird Al" Yankovic)

How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer

All Things Comedy

Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

For our first ever in-person podcast, this week Jonah and Vanessa are joined by a bonafide musical and pop-culture legend: "Weird Al" Yankovic! Vanessa runs her own song parodies from college by our guest today to get his feedback, we dig deep into the history of Weird Al's favorite cereal and present him with a very special gift. Along the way we also talk about his favorite cartoons from growing up, his tour rider snack situation and what goes through his mind when he's onstage singing his hit song parodies to audiences all over the world. Finally we play a game of YESTOLGIA OR NOSTALGIA where we get everyone's take on the return of mood rings, Pizza Hut's New Yorker pizza and Vienetta Ice Cream. You've heard plenty of interviews with Weird Al before but has anyone else asked him about Black Flag or Kudos bars? Terry Gross look out, we're coming from your job!

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Vanessa Bayer and this is my brother Jonah.
0:06.0	We're two siblings who love to talk about our childhood and nostalgia and how it shaped us into the people we are today.
0:11.0	Who are pretty white and nerdy, if I do say so myself.
0:14.0	Welcome to How Did We Get Weird. So, Jonah, I know that we're both absolutely thrilled, so excited about our guests today.
0:35.9	We're here in the studio in person with him and couldn't be more jazzed about it.
0:40.8	Yes.
0:41.2	And something that I think he might not know about me is that when I was in college, I was in an all-female sketch comedy and musical parody troupe called Bloomer's.
0:52.0	And we did quite a bit of song parody.
0:54.1	And so I wanted to, I think once we
0:56.9	introduce him, I'm going to go through a couple of these song parodies for him and just get his
1:01.1	take. And how long ago did you, were you working on this? I'm calling this 2000 to 2004. Okay.
1:09.0	Okay. So, but let's get right into it, right? Yes. Yeah. Okay, well, our guest today is honestly a legend. He's sold millions of albums and is one of only four artists with top 40 hits for four consecutive decades since the 1980s. He's also the co-writer and subject of the new biographical parody film Weird, the Al Yankovic story, which is currently streaming on the Roku channel.
1:30.5	Let's give it up for our first ever in-person podcast guest, Weird Al Yankovic.
1:36.4	Yay.
1:37.5	Hi, guys.
1:38.1	How's going?
1:38.8	Thanks so much for being here.
1:40.4	I'm so honored you named your whole podcast after me.
1:42.9	This really means a lot to me.
1:44.2	Thank you for not suing us.
1:45.5	My pleasure.
1:45.8	Yeah.
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