Name: How "Weird Al" Went From Working In The Mailroom To Selling Out Madison Square Garden
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Ladies and gentlemen, my next guest is a Grammy and Emmy award winning musician who's hitting the road again for his bigger and weirder 2026 comedy tour.

Mr. Yankovic, your weirdness, we're ready for.

Please welcome back to the late show, Weird Al Yankovic.

I didn't get a chance to talk to you that night.

I want to thank you for coming the night.

First show after we were canceled, you came on with Lin Manuel Miranda to help us celebrate this cold pulpit.

He came to my house once like pre Hamilton and was like, we should work on a musical together.

And I was like, yeah, he just cold called you?

We had the same agent and I let them know that I was maybe interested in doing something on Broadway.

They said, we get this young up and coming guy, Elon Manuel Miranda.

Maybe you guys could do something together.

And we haven't yet to this point, done something, but we became friends.

Obviously, you're the king of music parody.

Can you believe you've been doing this for 46 years?

Well, no, I mean, you know, I went to college to get a degree in architecture, which I got.

I want, you know, let me see if I can get a record deal.

I mean, they said, oh, you're very funny.

It wasn't until a few years later, I mean, I was trying to get a record deal.

And nobody wanted to sign me because, you know, what I do is considered novelty music.

Because anything humorous in rock and roll is considered novelty.

And novelty is sort of the domain of one hit wonders.

It historically does not have a long shelf life or long career trajectory.

We want to assign people that, you know, are going to be around for a while.

So, you know, 46 years later, I'm here on the Late show.

A lot of other people around that time, not so lucky was what.

What was the moment when you thought, okay, I.

It was right before I walked out tonight.

I mean, I made the decision to be like, weird out full time.

And that doesn't mean you're gonna be famous or rich or anything.

It just means, like, we've got you under contract.

Sure, they didn't give me a big pile of money, but

I was still working in the mail room, literally for like $5 an hour, which I think was minimum wage back then.

And I picked up the mail one morning from the post office, and

sticking out of the sack was the new Billboard magazine.

And I opened it up to the Hot 100 chart and I was on the Hot 100.

You hit a milestone this summer when you played Madison Square Garden for the first time, which I'm really surprised.

If you look closely on the sign, it says sold out at the bottom of it.

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How "Weird Al" Went From Working In The Mailroom To Selling Out Madison Square Garden

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