‘Weird Al’ Yankovic Recalls How He Quit His Mailroom Job When He Saw His Song on the Billboard Hot 100 After ‘Nobody Wanted to Sign Me’

Stars! They’re just like us… until they reach the kind of breakthrough “Weird Al” Yankovic experienced in 1983.

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During his appearance on Thursday night’s episode (Dec. 4) of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Yankovich recalled his earliest experiences in the music industry, and how record labels didn’t know what to do with him in the late ’70s and early ’80s when