Perhaps the biggest misconception about Ween is the idea that they are some kind of a joke band. “We’re just a band with a sense of humor,” Aaron “Gene Ween” Freeman said back in 2000. “People who say that we’re a joke band really don’t listen to us and they’ve never seen us live. Weird Al Yankovic is funny and tries to make that kind of music, but we’re not really like that… We just try to keep it simple and scummy in Ween. Nothing pisses me off more than when we get compared to They Might Be Giants. They’re like smart, anal college humor. Our humor is straight up scumbag.”
