November 27 - December 3, 2022 BY GEORGE DICKIE
Weird Al Yankovic WRITER AND SUBJECT OF ‘WEIRD: THE AL YANKOVIC STORY’ ON THE ROKU CHANNEL
record “My Bologna” in a public bathroom. Now I did it by myself at the time so I didn’t have like a whole band with me. But just to be there on set trying to recreate “My Bologna” in the bathroom was kind of an odd thing for me ... . It was odd to see Daniel Radcliffe playing me, doing this bit of me in college. In writing this, were you flexing the same muscles you would writing a song parody?
There are real aspects of your life that you are recreating here. Was there one particular moment that was somewhat recreated that really sort of brought you back to the moment when it happened in real life?
Dolly Parton stars in “Dolly Parton’s Mountain Magic Christmas” Thursday on NBC.
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There are a couple moments of actual truth sprinkled in (throughout) the biopic, things that people who aren’t familiar with my story may not actually know are true. Like there was, in fact, a door-to-door accordion salesman that came along in my neighborhood offering music lessons. I did, in fact,
I like to think the comic sensibility is the same, the sense of humor is the same at writing a parody song as opposed to writing a movie but they’re very different media. And you know, there’s a story, there’s an arc, there’s characters, there’s a lot of things beyond what you would normally have to flex while writing a song, so there’s a lot going on there. And thankfully, Eric (Appel, the director and executive producer) was the greatest writing partner in the world. We had such a blast writing the script. I mean, writing is usually my least favorite part of my job description but it was so fun writing with Eric. As soon as we finished writing the script, I was like, “Let’s write another one right away.”