Triumph the Insult Comic Dog praises Weird Al: “So many people kept their virginity to your music”

Another day, another virtual event that in another year (except the last one, of course) might have been live. The video that follows would, no doubt, also have made for a great live event, but it’s also pretty damn wonderful in its current form, and the reason is very simple: We, as a society, do not deserve Alfred Matthew Yankovic. He’s like Dolly Parton, or Tom Hanks, or the “What’s Inside Your Butthole” kid in that way.

Triumph The Insult Comic Dog, on the other hand, we absolutely deserve.

Triumph—definitely a real dog and not at all a puppet voiced by Robert Smigel—is here interviewing Weird Al for SF Sketchfest’s Festopocalypse, a virtual fundraiser for the festival that’s also a celebration of its 20th anniversary. (If you want to see more and support the organization at the same time, tickets can be purchased here. Consider it! The arts need you! Be the change you wish to see etc.! ) And it is a doggone delight. (See what we did there?)