Thursday Night Video – “Weird Al” in Japan in 1984

“Weird Al Yankovic” is the first guest this week on on WTF with Marc Maron. Al spoke about this video.

It was one of the most surrealistic experiences of my life. I was on this TV show, I don’t remember the name of it, but they billed it as the Saturday Night Live of Japan and I was there singing “Eat It” phonetically in half-English, half-Japanese. And while I’m singing there’s a chorus line of dancing sumo wrestlers, there’s a guy that gets wheeled out on a gurney in a giant lobster outfit and demands that I eat him. It was very Lost in Translation.