World of Weird Al Yankovic

Alright, I did the Albuquerque speech. It came out to about 7-8 minutes. The class thought it was unfunny and gross... that was completely unexpected.

TheLazenby @ Nov 30 2005, 08:31 PM wrote: Alright, I did the Albuquerque speech. It came out to about 7-8 minutes. The class thought it was unfunny and gross... that was completely unexpected.

Unfunny! How could they find it unfunny! And gross! It's not gross! I don't understand.

What age are your classmates?

I have a feeling there's a reason Albuquerque is set to music. I don't think it would be as funny as a speech (no offense to TheLazenby).

yeah i do think that Alburquerque needs the music.....i'm guessing that you didn't just read it in a monotone, but i still think it would be missing something just being spoken, eventhough it is just spoken in the song.....

wow, that made sense

My class is in the 18-to-23 age bracket. (It's a college class.)

I didn't read it monotone; I actually emulated Al's tone as close as possible. I even threw myself on the floor and screamed for the crazed weasel part!!

I actually emulated Al's tone as close as possible. I even threw myself on the floor and screamed for the crazed weasel part!!

Please tell me that someone has a video of this and will post it to the internet soon.

You could be bigger than the Star Wars kid.

I don't know if this has already been mentioned, and I don't want to go through 16 pages, but I recently noticed that at the very end right before the song's over, there's laughing (most likely Al) that I can only hear with headphones. I guess it's kind of like the fade-out ending to Phony Calls.

Alright, I did the Albuquerque speech. It came out to about 7-8 minutes. The class thought it was unfunny and gross... that was completely unexpected.

I did that, too, on the last day of school. And I got pretty much the same response, only they did applaud (pathetically), just to be polite. It was about the 6-7 minutes long, but I did it as a speech. I would have done stuff like scream and roll around, etc., but it would have got the other teachers mad because all the classrooms are inside and there are no doors to any clasroom. Go figure. My teacher (the same teacher who really liked my talent show act) said "Very, um...interesting...", then made me sit down. Oh well. I do think Albuquerque needs the music and all the vocal emphasisms (is that a word?) for it to be fully effective.

twinkieweinersandwiches24_7 @ Dec 14 2005, 06:55 PM wrote: I don't know if this has already been mentioned, and I don't want to go through 16 pages, but I recently noticed that at the very end right before the song's over, there's laughing (most likely Al) that I can only hear with headphones. I guess it's kind of like the fade-out ending to Phony Calls.

It's Jim. Al mentioned that in The Ask Al Archives.

Really? Oh. I've got to read that again.

Ask Al Archives wrote: Reina Samuels of Washington D.C. asks: HI! First let me start by saying I LOVE YOU! Okay, now I was just listening to your new CD last night, like I do every night, and I noticed something at the end of Albuquerque. Who is that laughing in the last few seconds and was it left on the CD on purpose or was it a mistake?

That’s Jim West laughing - I thought it would be a good way to end the album. He’s cracking up because of the stupid chord he played at the end of the song.

See?