Hours after Weird Al Yankovic unveiled The Hamilton Polka as part of Lin-Manuel Mirandas Hamildrops, the duo appeared on The Tonight Show to lip-sync the medley with Jimmy Fallon.
Earlier in the appearance, both Miranda wearing a shirt that said Close Personal Friend of Al and Fallon geeked out about Yankovic, as both the host and the Hamilton creator were huge fans of his musical satires growing up; Fallons first concert was a Weird Al show.
Miranda also talked about returning to the Alexander Hamilton role for Hamiltons Puerto Rico residency We hope you spend a lot of money in Puerto Rico, which really needs it; our goal is to restore arts funding in Puerto Rico, Miranda said as well as The Hamilton Polka.
We have been talking about this for a year, Miranda said of Yankovics medley. I heard it for the first time last Thursday night. My wife had the presence of mind to film me hearing it for first time; tears streaming down my cheeks. And then the song stops and my phone rings and its Questlove, who somehow already heard it He went, Forget your Pulitzer, your Genius Grant is nothing, youve been immortalized by Weird Al, youre done, youve peaked!'
Miranda and Fallon also shared side-by-side video footage of their first reactions to hearing The Hamilton Polka:
Yankovic and Miranda previously talked about their friendship and the polka medley in a new interview with Rolling Stone.