_UHF_ (Weird Al's, that is)

A friend of mine saw wierd al in a bar with hot chicks around him. He goes "Hi wierd al!" WA: "hi." friend: "you suck!" WA: "syracuse gotta love this place!" Em, just a boring anecdote.

this movie is utterly classic. second to big lebowski as one of the most quotable movies.

this used to be my favorite movie. my best friend and I brought spatulas to school for an entire year -- it was funny until she started hitting me with one.

This is a great Mandee story. (And a great story period.)

http://thedissolve.com/features/oral-history/817-an-oral-history-of-weird-al-yankovics-uhf/

SPATULA CITY!
WE SELL SPATULAS
– AND THAT'S ALL!

And now here's an even MORE extensive oral history:

http://www.avclub.com/article/we-got-it-all-uhf-oral-history-weird-al-yankovics--215579

This was a surprise:

Yankovic: [Cream’s Ginger Baker] came in to audition for the role of the “Change? You got change?” guy. And he came in and he read, and he was okay. But he just wasn’t as good as Vance [Colvig Jr.], who wound up doing the part. But it was a bit surrealistic for me and Jay, you know, who were big Cream fans, to have Ginger Baker come in for this movie.

Levey: Oh my God, do I remember that. As a child of the ’60s, Cream was probably second only to The Beatles as being my favorite band. I was a giant Creamhead. And when I heard that Ginger Baker was going to come in and read for that role, it was one of the most surreal experiences of my life. I didn’t know where to put that. The fact is, he just wasn’t right. I guess it’s like the Crispin Glover thing. I dreaded the idea of saying no, having to turn him down for the role. He wasn’t an actor, but he was just trying all kinds of things, and his agent saw the listing for this and saw it was a small enough role. He could’ve conceivably worked. It was just Vance, who had worked with Spike Jones, was just a bull’s-eye. So there was no reason to go elsewhere, you know?

Yeah, lots of fun/random details. Also thought the whole section with Watanabe and Levey weighing in on comedy and stereotypes was pretty good.

This is great! LOL at Michael Richards having Bells Palsy. "Hey Weird Al I have Bells Palsy for the next foreseeable while, wanna get someone else or what?" "No let's roll with it!"

They made the right choice with casting the "Change?" guy, he was just perfect, like he was born to play a bum.

Lol, I looked at Vance Colvig Jr.'s filmography at IMDb, and it lists 23 roles for him, including "Bum", "Wino", "Old Man", "Alcoholic Man", "Old Man" (again), "Bum" (again!), "Bum" (third time!), and "Wino" (again!!). So I guess that really was his forte...

This is such a great read.

Weird that Joel Hodgson and Crispin Glover were almost in this.

The vibe in the Joel Hodgson part is really weird. He seems pretty down on it, and they seem down on him.

I rewatched this with my wife the other day and it really doesnt hold up imo.. and I rented this like 15 times as a kid.