Weird Al explains his 5 favorite comedy movies

polygon.com:

“Weird Al” Yankovic shaped the humor of many of pop culture’s funniest comedians, including Patton Oswalt, The Lonely Island, and Garfunkel and Oates. But what comedy inspires Weird Al?

As Yankovic’s delightful biopic parody, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, leaps from its confined home on Roku into wider availability on 4K, Blu-ray, DVD, and VOD, we marked the occasion by sitting down with Yankovic to talk about his five favorite comedy movies of all time.

Some will be obvious to fans (Yankovic’s adoration for Top Secret is not a secret), but others may surprise them, like his love for an underappreciated 1970s family comedy about an American spy’s attempt to stop a global plot to trigger rampant economic inflation.

This interview has been edited for clarity and concision.

Polygon: Back in 2018, you told our sibling site Vulture that Top Secret is the funniest film ever made. Do you remember the first time you saw it?

“Weird Al” Yankovic: I do. It was during its initial theatrical run, which would have been 1984. I remember the woman I took to see the movie — I think it was the woman I wrote “One More Minute” about. But I remember being in the theater — I don’t think I’d ever laughed that hard in a theater in my life. I was amazed by how funny that movie was.

I wanted to make my top five list for you a bit diverse — I was tempted to put two or three Zucker brothers movies on there, because how could you leave off Airplane! or Naked Gun? But if I have to pick one from their oeuvre, I went with Top Secret, because I think that’s still my favorite movie of all time.

When did you know it was your favorite?

I don’t know if I walked out saying “That’s the funniest movie I’ve ever seen in my life.” But looking back on it