It was lousy timing for all of them. The week it had to happen, the Lonely Island guys—Andy Samberg, 34; Akiva Schaffer, 35; and Jorma Taccone, 36—were finishing up an album, planning a summer tour, filming two music videos, and tending to their own various writing/directing/Digital Shorts-ing/Girls-ing gigs. They were as busy as three guys who write and perform joke songs for a living could possibly be. "We had all this stuff lined up," says Taccone. But to spend a day with their comedy hero, "we'll cancel fucking everything." Weird Al, meanwhile, was in Hawaii. On vacation. Resting up before a summer tour of his own (the Alpocalypse tour) and the release of his second children's book. But when the call came, he left his vacation, flew to Los Angeles, took some pictures with The Lonely Island, and then flew right back to Hawaii, like a bawse. Yankovic says it just meant too much to pass up—a meeting of the minds between the guys who made "Dick in a Box" and the guy who made "Eat It," "Dare to Be Stupid," "Amish Paradise"... "I actually remember listening to The Lonely Island on my AM/FM clock radio in bed, when I was just a little kid," Weird Al jokes. **The Lonely Island has become pretty successful. What do you feel like you could still learn from Weird Al? ** Samberg: Hair hygiene. **Schaffer: **Tailoring and hair hygiene. Samberg: No, how about career longevity? Being so good for so long. How many records are you at now? Fourteen? Yankovic: Yeah, fourteen. Akiva Schaffer: Fourteen fucking albums... **Samberg: **UHF actually is one of our favorite movies ever made. **Yankovic: **You guys found success early. I was ten years into my career before I even started working on my own videos—you guys are directing movies. You guys are like monsters. I can't believe you're only working your third album because you're such a big part of the culture now, it feels like you've been around for a long time. **Taccone: **This just continues to be the best day of my life. Talented people often find success earlier now because of the Internet. Al, do you think you would have been successful sooner if it had existed when you started? Yankovic: It would have been different, yeah. But I also feel sorry for these guys because they weren't around when people were, like, buying records. So I'm fine, thank you. I will trade the early success on the Internet for world album sales. [laughter] Akiva Schaffer: People are like, "You guys are huge! You have like a billion views on YouTube." I'm like, great, we've sold like two records. Yankovic: I'm just inspired whenever I see their videos. I'm actually glad I don't have an album coming out this year because you guys are going to be like a comedy tsunami washing away everything in a trail of destruction. Taccone: Still the best day of my life. Schaffer: What song of yours either created the most legal trouble or pissed people off? Yankovic: It was probably "Amish Paradise"—the Coolio thing. I was under the impression he had signed off. He contends he never did and it was very uncomfortable because I had some veiled threats, back in the day. Samberg: It's funny that it's Coolio, because when you said "Amish Paradise", my mind immediately was like, "Oh yeah, the Amish." [laughter] For some reason, I was way more scared of the Amish. Yankovic: I did run into Coolio a couple of years ago and he's fine now, so... Schaffer: Oh okay, good. Yankovic: He cooled out. **Schaffer: **He Coolioed out. Samberg: Just like his name. Yankovic: Yeah. Schaffer: Coolio. He Coolioed out. Yankovic: Yeah, I get it. Schaffer: Coolioed out. Yankovic: Yeah, I got it. **Schaffer: **No, but his name's Coolio. Yankovic: Oh, God.