Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
"Couch Potato" is a parody song by American musician "Weird Al" Yankovic. It is a parody of the Academy Award winning song " Lose Yourself " by Eminem . In it, the narrator details his obsession with watching television and the television shows he watches.
Best Music Video, Short Form: Australian gold long form videos The Ultimate Video Collection [32] U.S. gold long form videos The "Weird Al" Yankovic Video Library [32] [33] Alapalooza: The Videos "Weird Al" Yankovic Live! Bad Hair Day: The Videos: U.S. platinum long form videos The Ultimate Video Collection [32] [33]
[30] [31] Poodle Hat has not been certified by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), making it one of only a handful of "Weird Al" Yankovic albums to not receive the honor. Nathan Rabin, in Weird Al: The Book (2012), argues that this is because "Couch Potato" never had a music video, resulting in the album stumbling commercially ...
The song begins with Al talking about a traumatic childhood, living "in a box under the stairs in the corner of the basement of the house half a block down the street from Jerry's Bait Shop (You know the place)" and being force-fed sauerkraut by his mother for his own health until he turned 26½ years old.
Here are “Weird Al” Yankovic’s 2025 tour dates: June 13-14, 18, 20-21: Las Vegas (Venetian Theatre at The Venetian Resort) June 23: Salt Lake City (Maverik Center)
"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.
Alapalooza: The Videos is a VHS release of four of "Weird Al" Yankovic's music videos. Al later joked that it was originally supposed to be called “Alapalooza: Two Videos Based On Songs From The Album And Two Videos That Really Don’t Have Anything To Do With Alapalooza But We Thought You’d Appreciate Having Them On This Collection Anyway” but the retailers preferred the shorter title.
Among the album's original creations were "Talk Soup", a tune originally intended to replace the theme song of the television show of the same name, and "Harvey the Wonder Hamster", an oft-requested jingle from one of Yankovic's Al TV specials. A music video compilation, entitled Alapalooza: the Videos, was released the following year and ...