> You can tell by watching the original video that he knew it was funny then so I'm not > sure why anyone was surprised that he was OK with the internet comedy popularity > whatever. People thought he was going to be like Coolio when Weird Al did Amish > Paradise or something. I'm glad he didn't die before the internet popularity hit. It > must have been a nice final gift for him.
It's pretty interesting that the whole reason for the song being so weird is that they were basically winking at the Soviet censors. The whole thing kind of almost makes sense in that context.