“I got in my car, and I was like the guy in Boogie Nights.
I was like, You’re an idiot.
You’re an idiot.
Weird Al Yankovic; Lin Manuel-Miranda.Kevin Winter/Getty; Tristar Media/Getty
Why did you do that?!
Why did you do that?!'”
Lin-Manuel Mirandais recalling the embarrassing way hethrew away his shotat one day working with parody iconWeird Al Yankovic.
“It’s like meeting Santa Claus, meeting Weird Al,” he toldJimmy Fallon.
“And I was so nervous that I, like, self-destructed.”
That includes, apparently, suggesting that someone else was a better fit for the job.
“Like, midway through it, I said, ‘You know who you should work with?
“I was like, ‘He’s writing a show with theSouth Parkguys [Trey ParkerandMatt Stone].
You should write with them.’
And, like, talked him out of working with me.”
To this day, Miranda isn’t quite sure what caused him to short-circuit during the encounter.
“Some self-esteem thing happened to me.
It’s never happened before!”
“And I got in my car, and I was like the guy inBoogie Nights.
I was like, ‘You’re an idiot.
You’re an idiot.
Why did you do that?!
Why did you do that?!'”
“I really pooped the bed.
It’s amazing he’s friends with me,” Miranda joked.
“Because the first time I was like, ‘H-H-Hi.'”
Watch Miranda discuss the botched meeting and how his 4-year-old son fell asleep duringHamilton in the clip above.
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