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Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic (/ ˈ j æ ŋ k ə v ɪ k / YANG-kə-vik; 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.
The Original Soundtrack for WEIRD: The Al Yankovic Story is out NOW, digitally and on CD and double-LP! (The LP AL WINS AN EMMY! Al picked up his very first Emmy for being one of the producers of WEIRD: The Al Yankovic Story, AL ON BROADWAY. Al made his Broadway debut on Nov. 25, 2023 as the guest-producer in the Tony-nominated Gutenberg!
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.
'Weird Al' Yankovic. Actor: Weird: The Al Yankovic Story. 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 ...
May 13, 2024 · “Weird Al” Yankovic (born October 23, 1959, Downey, California, U.S.) 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.”
Nov 4, 2022 · Weird: The Al Yankovic Story. Explores every facet of Yankovic's life, from his meteoric rise to fame with early hits like 'Eat It' and 'Like a Surgeon' to his torrid celebrity love affairs and famously depraved lifestyle.
Weird Al’s 14th studio album, the Grammy® award-winning Mandatory Fun (2014), became the first comedy album in history to debut at #1 on the Billboard Top 200 chart, and the first to even reach the top of that chart since 1963. Yankovic set the U.S. record on Spotify for having the most tracks from one album in the viral top 10 at one time ...
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.
Feb 10, 2023 · "Weird Al" Yankovic has parodied some of the biggest artists in the world, but with millions and millions of albums sold, six platinum records, five Grammys and a career going on its fifth decade...
Nov 11, 2022 · How ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic Made a Biopic Just Like His Songs. The accordion-playing polymath opens up about his "pop music-adjacent" career — and finally becoming a critical darling.
