"Weird" Al Yankovic's ALS Ice Bucket Challenge video begins on a hillside, and all seems calm as Yankovic and his wife enjoy the pleasant weather.
"What a perfect day," he says. "The only thing that would make this better is if I had a big bucket of ice water dumped on my head."
If you've seen any of the several celebrity ice bucket videos that have swept the Web in recent weeks, you know what happens next.
Afterwards, Yankovic nominates the Pope, the Dalai Lama, and President Obama to take the challenge next.
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Our own Kyle Dowling conducted a one-on-one interview with Yankovic earlier this summer, and asked how the spoof star survives in the age of Internet comedians.
"It's definitely more of a challenge," Al said. "It's a very healthy thing, though, to level the playing field and let everyone have an opportunity. I realize that I will never again be the only person, nevertheless the first person, to do a parody of any given pop song. There's always going to be a thousand other versions.
"It's always going to be a challenge for me. I need to step up my game and try to make my material all the more enjoyable. Hopefully, I'll be able to come up with a concept that a few dozen people haven't already done."
Yankovic had this to say about future projects:
"Well, it's all speculative right now because I'm at the end of my record contract," he said. "People are asking me 'what are you going to do?' and the answer is 'I don't know.' I haven't given it much serious thought. I've been focused more so on the videos and this album and my tour next year.
"The one thing I have been talking about mostly is that I think I will get away from traditional, conventional albums, because I don't think it behooves me to do twelve songs before I put them out at once. It's very difficult to be topical and timely and fresh that way. I think that digital distribution just makes more sense. It makes sense for me to just put out singles or possibly EPs instead of albums. The more quickly and frequently I put albums out, the better for everybody I think."
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