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Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic (/ ˈ j æ ŋ k ə v ɪ k / ⓘ YANG-kə-vik; [2] born October 23, 1959) is an American comedy musician, writer, and actor. He is best known for writing and performing comedy songs that often parody specific songs by contemporary musicians.
Henry Lawson C.J. Dennis, poet and humourist of the Australian vernacular. The "Australian sense of humour" is often characterised as dry, irreverent and ironic, exemplified by some of the works of performing artists like Barry Humphries and Paul Hogan and by character creations such as mock-talk-show hosts Norman Gunston (Garry McDonald) and Roy and HG (John Doyle and Greig Pickhaver).
Facing the Music: A Pantheon Guide to Popular Culture. Pantheon Books. ISBN 0-394-55849-9. Reynolds, Simon (2006). Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978–1984. Penguin Publishing Group. ISBN 978-1-101-20105-3
I want to do some heavy songs.” I wanted [there] to be a juxtaposition, like soft song, heavy song, pop song, art song—you know, stuff like that. They agreed, [and] the label agreed and gave ...
Lists of songs by recording artists (27 C, 34 P)!!!! songs (1 P) 0–9. The 2 Bears songs (2 P) 2 Brothers on the 4th Floor songs (8 P) 2 Chainz songs (81 P)
In theatrical music, the 18th century ballad opera, which included satirical songs set to popular melodies of the time, involved some of the broadest musical parodies. [9] In Così fan tutte Mozart parodied the elaborate solemnities of opera seria arias. [10] His own The Magic Flute was the subject of Viennese parodies in the decades after his ...
Jacob Artist and Lea Michele. Getty Images (2) Unless you’ve been busy thinking about the Roman empire, there’s a good chance you know the conspiracy theory surrounding actress Lea Michele.
As a result, much of their art was intentionally amusing. One example is Marcel Duchamp's Fountain (1917), an inverted urinal signed "R. Mutt". This became one of the most famous and influential pieces of art in history, and one of the earliest examples of the found object movement. It is also a joke, relying on the inversion of the item's ...