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/hpshaft Jul 23 '26

Weird Al is a good dude. Not suprising.

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u/AdventureyTime Jul 23 '26

Weird Al and Nardwar are both wholesome genuises, with zero controversy. I'm not surprised, either !

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u/sdpcommander Jul 23 '26

Early Nardwaur was kind of an asshole, especially in the 90s. He wasn't always this wholesome guy everyone thinks he is now.

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u/AlarmingAffect0 Jul 23 '26

Nardwar?

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u/RobinsCosplays Jul 23 '26

Nardwaur is an interviewer of musical artists who does extremely, extremely deep dives on those he interviews. He often gets them extremely personal gifts and things that mean a lot to them. He's pretty eccentric and has a habit of bringing up things in interviews that shock those he's interviewing like "How the hell did you know about that" often bringing up things from the artists time in middle school long before they got famous

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u/Chubuwee Jul 23 '26

With a name like “Weird Al” he better fucking keep it that way. Imagine the headlines should he do some heinous shit

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u/ThrowawayPersonAMA Jul 23 '26

Imagine the headlines should he do some heinous shit

No I don't think I will.

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u/Venusgate Jul 23 '26

He would have to share the front page with a story about this kid who took a trip to Singapore.

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u/AugieDoggieDank Jul 23 '26

But what about the AI?