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Ahead of a Syracuse, New York, stop on his “Bigger & Weirder” tour, Yankovic revealed to Syracuse.com in an interview published this week that he was offered “a nice pile of money” to appear in a commercial for business-focused software, but he backed out once he realized the ad would involve AI. “I’m not a fan of AI,” he said.

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[-] nevyn@slrpnk.net 4 points 4 days ago
[-] Epp@lemmus.org 23 points 4 days ago

We must have watched a different movie.

[-] nevyn@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 days ago

I watched to 2022 movie "Weird: The AL Yankovic Story" It was crap, it would have been much better off as an honest biography.

[-] prole 11 points 3 days ago

Up until this comment, I thought everyone was talking about U/H/F

A few years ago I saw an interview with Emo Phillips and he held up a royalty check he'd just gotten in the mail for his appearance in that movie. It was for $1.37 or some such. He called UHF "the gift that keeps on giving".

[-] Squirrelanna 17 points 4 days ago

What do you mean? They very faithfully recreated his rise to fame exactly as it happened.

[-] nevyn@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 days ago

I was there as it happened, perhaps my memory is a little fuzzy.

[-] Squirrelanna 1 points 3 days ago

Yup. I'll miss him after his assassination.

[-] Epp@lemmus.org 9 points 4 days ago

Weird. I watched that same movie and it wasn't crap. It was brilliant and entertaining.

An honest biography would be worth watching, but infinitely more boring.

[-] nevyn@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 days ago

"Banned from community" for terrible taste in movies? Bit harsh...

[-] nevyn@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 days ago

It was definitely weird

[-] RoddyStiggs 6 points 3 days ago

You shut your whore mouth

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