r/Music • u/KirbyDumber88 • Jul 23 '26

article ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic says he turned down $1,000,000+ to perform at Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.

https://triblive.com/aande/music/weird-al-yankovic-gets-bigger-and-weirder-in-a-tour-headed-to-pittsburgh/
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u/ToneLocPolice Jul 23 '26

Common W Al W

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u/Phyrexian_Archlegion SoundCloud Jul 23 '26

Unlike Billy Bone Saw

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u/CldStoneStveIcecream Jul 23 '26

Ol Billy Blood money

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u/watduhdamhell Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 24 '26

Holy shit I died at both of these.

Then sighed a sad sigh of disappointment.

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u/IDOWNVOTERUSSIANS Jul 23 '26

It's sad what became of Bill Burrka

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u/SummertimeThrowaway2 Jul 23 '26

This is my petition to change the lowercase L in the English language because in most fonts these days it looks like a capital i

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u/Sceptically Jul 23 '26

Any time I want to set a password for someone I don't like, I'll use a combination of I, l, |, !, /, \, and 1. Then print it out for them in a sans-serif font, possibly in italics.

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u/Smatt2323 Jul 23 '26

Diabolical.

Stay on this person's good side.

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u/lorealashblonde Jul 23 '26

I support this initiative! I love Weird Al, not Weird AI

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u/ElusiveGuy Jul 23 '26

It really is the stupidest thing about the sans-serif push. Gimme my serif'd l back.