Weird Al Yankovitch’s Normal Look
You can watch the video MTV ID – Weird Al Yankovic Unplugged over on Yahoo–it’s not on youtube. And, on Ask Al he answers what this look is for:
It was a JOKE. I was wearing a WIG. I didn’t cut my hair. Everybody just calm down. Everything’s going to be all right Hey, remember the “Gump” video? I was bald in that one, and the next day, all my hair was back! Amazing what Hollywood can do these days, huh? For the record, a producer at MTV approached me about doing those “Unplugged” spots. My supposed “new look” from the Hanson video was getting such a huge reaction that MTV wanted to confuse people even more with some promos featuring a “serious, introspecive” Al. Man, that really flipped people out Friends I’d known for years were convinced that I’d cut my hair. (And gee, for some reason, my hair suddenly became straight and blonde, too!) At least one person even believed that I’d been wearing a curly-haired wig all these years, and that those commercials finally showed my REAL hair! I mean, I wanted to stir up a little controversy, but I think I’ve confused and disturbed a lot of people. So like I said before… JOKE. Ha ha.
Too bad, he’s quite cute this way.
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It’s an interesting thing about Weird Al… I’ve meet-and-greeted him several times, and he’s a very nice-looking man in whatever state of hair or post-concert weariness. He really is better looking than almost all of his photographs. Personally I like the long-hair-and-goatee look, and my guess is that his wife does too, since he often wears the goatee when he’s not performing.