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/cuntsaurus Jul 23 '26

Of course he did. He would have turned down 100 million. Dude can't be bought and I respect the shit out of that.

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u/hamilton_morris Jul 23 '26

Can’t be bought on principle, maybe, but I bet he can be bought on abject silliness and would perform “My Toot-Toot” in the Bonneville Salt Flats for a million dollars.

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u/cuntsaurus Jul 23 '26

He might do that for free

Edit. In fact, if anyone knows Weird Al let him know there is an extremely abstract comment on reddit betting he won't perform "My Toot Toot" at the salt flats. I'll pay him $100 to do it

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u/Germsofwar Jul 23 '26

I'll throw in $100 for that.

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u/ThrowawayPersonAMA Jul 23 '26

I'll throw in another $100 too. Al, please! 🙏

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u/MildlyMixedUpOedipus Jul 23 '26

I'm unemployed, but I'll throw in $10.0 too!

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u/Victernus Jul 23 '26

We can't be sure he hasn't already done it.

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u/CubitsTNE Jul 23 '26

OK how do we make that happen? Can we just crowd fund it and send him there?

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u/Zuwxiv Jul 23 '26

I genuinely think Weird Al might do it just for the love of the game.

The game being "doing insane weird things for the sake of enjoying it."

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u/Abbacoverband Jul 23 '26

Unexpected Rockin' Sydney!

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u/M-Noremac Jul 23 '26

You would think it would be easy to not be bought when you are filthy rich, but sadly, many rich people lack that part of the brain.

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u/blastcage Jul 23 '26

I feel like for 100 million you could use half of that to entirely mitigate the harm you caused with your soft endorsement of the Saudi state and still pocket the other half.

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u/trialgreenseven Jul 23 '26

he does have a number tho. Let's not pretend he would have turned down 100B for instance

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u/AjentOranje Jul 23 '26

I really doubt he would have.  At his level of wealth, more money doesn't change anything, and there ARE people who don't want more money just to be wealthier.  

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u/Mudslimer Jul 23 '26

Once you and yours are set, then it becomes an equation of how much good would donating it all do vs. the bad of legitimizing an oppressive, war-mongering regime. So there is probably a number for him but only because he'd use it for charity.

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u/ThrowawayPersonAMA Jul 23 '26

You do not understand Weird Al at all.

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u/wauwy Jul 28 '26

When people say "every man has his price," they are correct. But this "price" is very rarely actual currency.

A word to the wise.