""For too long, people have been messing it up, calling me 'Weird Al' Yankovich. That stops now," he said. "The Yankovics didn't come to this country with just an accordion on their backs and the wrong words to other people's songs in their hearts just to have their names mangled and butchered." Continuing with his speech, however, "Weird Al" experienced an existential crisis, wondering if Yankovich is actually "the real pronunciation" and pondering whether he may have "gone so far down the rabbit hole of satire that I don't know what's real and what's a spoof?""
""Is this even my real hair?" he continued, ripping off a wig. "My entire life is a lie." Yankovic/Yankovich also sat down with Colbert for an interview about his lengthy musical career, which began in 1982 when he was still working in a mailroom and culminated in his first Madison Square Garden show last year."
Weird Al Yankovic clarified on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert that his last name is pronounced Yanko-VICK, not Yanko-VICH. He delivered a holiday message that mixed correction with satire, joking about his family and then experiencing a mock existential crisis that led him to rip off a wig. Yankovic also spoke with Colbert about a music career that began in 1982 while he worked in a mailroom and peaked with his first Madison Square Garden show last year. He will launch a 90-city Bigger & Weirder Tour beginning in May 2026.
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