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‘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’


'Weird Al' Yankovic recalled quitting his day job in a mailroom in the '80s after his song hit the Hot 100 during an appearance on 'The Late Show'.

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