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"Weird Al" Yankovic in 2003 "Weird Al" Yankovic is a multiple Grammy Award -winning American musician, satirist , parodist , accordionist , director , television producer, and author. He is known in particular for humorous songs which make fun of popular culture or parody specific songs by contemporary musical acts, or both.
"White & Nerdy" is the second single from "Weird Al" Yankovic's album Straight Outta Lynwood, which was released in 2006. It parodies the song " Ridin' " by Chamillionaire and Krayzie Bone . The song both satirizes and celebrates nerd culture, as recited by the subject, who cannot "roll with the gangstas " because he is "just too white and nerdy ".
The Weird Al Star Fund was a campaign started by Yankovic's fans to get him a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Their mission was to "solicit, collect, and raise the necessary money, and to compile the information needed for the application to nominate "Weird Al" Yankovic for a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame". [228]
In 1984, his second album, “Weird Al” Yankovic in 3-D was released, with the first single being a parody of Michael Jackson’s “Beat It,” entitled “Eat It.” The single and its music ...
“Weird Al” Yankovic is back with “Polkamania!,” his first new song since 2022’s “Now You Know.” It’s a four-minute medley, featuring 12 pop hits from the past decade, ranging from ...
Al Shipley of Stylus gave the album a "B−" and felt that, while "White & Nerdy" was a solid parody, the other spoofs on the album were not quite up to par. He praised "Pancreas" and "Virus Alert" as the album's best style parodies, comparing the latter to the 1985 single " Dare to Be Stupid ", while criticizing "I'll Sue Ya", "Close but No ...
Al Yankovic [1] Original song. 1988 "Fat" Jay Levey [1] Parody of "Bad" by Michael Jackson: 1989 "Money for Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies" Parody of "Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits "UHF" Original song, lead single on the soundtrack for "Weird Al"'s feature film UHF: 1992 "Smells Like Nirvana" Parody of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana
Face to Face with "Weird Al" Yankovic was an American YouTube comedy web series hosted/written by comedian "Weird Al" Yankovic. [1] It ran on the YouTube channel Nerdist, from early April-mid August 2012. It was presented as a talk show. At the start of each episode, Yankovic would introduce the celebrity he interviewed that day.