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Alfred Matthew " Weird Al " Yankovic ( / ˈjæŋkəvɪk / YANG-kə-vik; [2] born October 23, 1959) is an American musician, comedian, and actor. He is best known for writing and performing comedy songs that often parody specific songs by contemporary musicians.
May 13, 2024 · ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic is a musician and songwriter best known for his parodies of songs and music videos by other musicians. He gained national fame in 1984 with the song and music video for ‘Eat It,’ a parody of Michael Jackson’s hit song ‘Beat It.’
In addition to his 1989 cult hit feature film UHF, his late 1990s CBS Saturday morning series The Weird Al Show and numerous AL-TV specials he has made for MTV and VH1 over the years, Yankovic has remained a staple of film and television, from appearances on The Simpsons and 30 Rock to performing on the 2014 Primetime Emmy Awards.
May 3, 2023 · "Weird Al" Yankovic's self-titled debut came out 40 years ago, on May 3, 1983. So our resident super-fan listened to all of his songs and ranked the 40 best.
AL WINS AN EMMY! Al picked up his very first Emmy for being one of the producers of WEIRD: The Al Yankovic Story, ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK. The Original Soundtrack for WEIRD: The Al Yankovic Story is out NOW, digitally and on CD and double-LP! (The LP WEIRD DVD, Blu-Ray, & 4K!
Apr 17, 2023 · In 1982, a young and still mostly unknown “Weird Al” Yankovic got on stage at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium to belt out some of his song parodies in a 45-minute set. Instead of being ...
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Mini Bio. Few would have guessed that "Weird Al" Yankovic - who as a shy, accordion-playing teenager got his start sending in homemade tapes to the Dr. Demento Radio Show - would go on to become a pop culture icon and the biggest-selling comedy recording artist of all time, with classic song and music video parodies such as "Eat It," "Like a ...
Apr 9, 2020 · Weird Al Yankovic was a full-on rock star, a legitimate performance monster. He was not just a parasite of cultural power but — somehow, improbably — a source of it himself.
Nov 5, 2022 · Directed by Eric Appel from a script written with Al Yankovic, it tells the fully authenticated story of a man who ends the climate crisis, inflation and flatulence by writing and recording song...
