This year may not have a ton going for it, but it's got a lot of Weird Al. The comedy icon has been (and will be) all over the place in 2022, with an exclusive pinball machine, a new Daniel Radcliffe-starring biopic and a Canadian summer tour all in the works.
However, if that's still not enough Yankovic for you, here's something a lil extra — yesterday, Yankovic shared an unused, song-length "coverage" take from the 1984 video for "Eat It," featuring previously-unseen footage of Al laying around in bed, mugging for the camera and eating donuts. This is history-shifting stuff!
As Yankovic explained in a tweet, a coverage take is film lingo for an unbroken shot of a performer lip-syncing their song and basically doing whatever they want, which is then used to fill any holes that might appear in the final video edit.
"It's insurance, in case for some reason the production runs out of time and doesn't get all the shots they were hoping to get," Yankovic said in the video's description. "I'm pretty sure NOTHING from this take got used in the final video, but I still thought it was stupid/amusing enough to share."
The video was discovered when a friend of Yankovic's "was digitizing all the original film footage that we shot for the 'Eat It' video."
The song-length video is basically just Yankovic vamping and wiggling for the camera while he eats donuts in bed, but it's in a higher resolution than any versions of the OG "Eat It" video that you can find online. Check it out below.
However, if that's still not enough Yankovic for you, here's something a lil extra — yesterday, Yankovic shared an unused, song-length "coverage" take from the 1984 video for "Eat It," featuring previously-unseen footage of Al laying around in bed, mugging for the camera and eating donuts. This is history-shifting stuff!
As Yankovic explained in a tweet, a coverage take is film lingo for an unbroken shot of a performer lip-syncing their song and basically doing whatever they want, which is then used to fill any holes that might appear in the final video edit.
"It's insurance, in case for some reason the production runs out of time and doesn't get all the shots they were hoping to get," Yankovic said in the video's description. "I'm pretty sure NOTHING from this take got used in the final video, but I still thought it was stupid/amusing enough to share."
The video was discovered when a friend of Yankovic's "was digitizing all the original film footage that we shot for the 'Eat It' video."
The song-length video is basically just Yankovic vamping and wiggling for the camera while he eats donuts in bed, but it's in a higher resolution than any versions of the OG "Eat It" video that you can find online. Check it out below.
