“Weird Al” Yankovic has long established himself as the King of Pop Parody with songs ranging from hilariously funny to kind of mediocre to described as the band he’s parodying as better than any of their own songs.
For many years (and possibly still, but I doubt it), he did specials on MTV to promote his albums which were called AlTV, wherein he’d turn MTV into his own personal channel. While the majority of the show was Al presenting unusual and surreal videos, both his own and by others, these were interspersed with parodies of other MTV segments (back when they were primarily a music video channel), including interviews with rock stars. Al interviewed the same rock stars by brilliantly mashing up footage from real MTV interviews (sometimes using bits that would normally be edited out) with his own bizarre and sometimes even audacious questions, including asking them their, often very negative, opinions of his own albums and regularly bringing up his pet, Harvey the Wonder Hamster.
There is a Youtube playlist of over 30 interviews you can watch, but I’ll just put up a few of my favorites.
The best, and probably most audacious, one is his ‘interview’ with George Harrison:
There’s also his sexually-charged interview with Paula Abdul:
He gets up-close and personal with James Brown:
Tries to understand Keith Richards:
And starts a collaboration with Snoop Dogg:
Al appears to still be doing them on YouTube, but the classic ones will always be my favorites.