Ghoddammit, it was just yesterday or thereabouts I was listening to him call in to Dr. Demento on the Mighty KMET.
Happy Birthday, Alfred Matthew Yankovic!
That’s what I was gonna say!
I’ve also been listening to Al since the beginning. I wrote to him once in high school (he replied; I still have it) and I’ve met him twice. Very cool guy. What an amazing career he’s carved out for himself.
Happy birthday, Al!
Jesus, I thought he was a lot older than THAT. I turn 59 next week.
And he’s so much more famous than me…(sob).
Also, Amy Klobuchar was in my same college class. But I’d rather be Al than Amy.
Did you give him the idea for Like a Surgeon?
Apropos of nothing, I just found out today that Vera Lynn is still alive. She’s 102.
Oh my gosh, I was a really geeky accordion player and him on Dr. D (yes on KMET, Sunday nights were the best hours of my junior high school life) was a revelation. Not that it made me any less geeky but it made it a little more ok to be (white & ) nerdy.
Little bit of Heaven, 94.7
KMET, tweedle-dee
Dr. Demento was a staple. Weird Al was a major part of that. Happy Birthday, Al!
When I was working as a PA for LiveNation, I worked one of his shows in DC and he let me try on the fat suit. It wasn’t the same one from the video which was inflated, the concert one was just foam. And it was exceptionally large on me because I’m much shorter than Al.
Hell of a nice guy. In person and off stage he’s actually quite reserved.
His name was listed in the newspaper’s “Celebrities Born Today” list. When I saw that he turned 60, my reaction was, “He’s only 60??!!”. FWIW I turned 58 in July.
I turn 65 in January. I already feel old, thanks. 
You don’t feel as old as I do. I could have babysat for Weird Al. (The cousin I did, in fact, babysit for is turning 66 next week.)
Yeah it’s weird that he’s only a few years older than me. That would have made him about 20 or 21 when he did “Another One Rides The Bus”? I was a freshman in college when that came out. The guy who drove the bus from the dorms to campus would play it on his tape player every morning to a bus full of students.
I’m surprised he’s only 60. It’s been close to 40 years since he first became well-known to Dr. Demento fans.
He actually was a teenager when he got started. His first song was played on Dr. Demento when Al was 16.
Al turning 60 doesn’t make me feel old at all. Hearing Mary Lou Retton in a radio commercial pitching a menopause supplement made me feel old. She is permanently a perky teenager in my mind.
Weird Al recorded “My Bologna” in a restroom at my college (Cal Poly San Luis Obispo). Apparently there’s a plaque next to it. I should check that out next time I go down there to visit.
I thought Weird Al blew his brains out in the late 80s when nobody was buying his records.
No, I don’t think you did think this. Why the mean-spiritedness?
Hank Hill said so.
2nd edit: I found this old thread too! Fun.