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Weird Al is the most successful comedy artist ever, particularly in an era where comedy records don't sell like they used to. He's most known for his parodies of popular songs (like Beat It), although his albums are half-or-more original songs. He also typically puts a polka medley of popular songs on each record (only two haven't got one -- "Weird Al" Yankovic and Even Worse). He's made a film and had his own Saturday Morning TV show. He's also directed music videos for himself as well as Ben Folds, Hanson and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and produced tracks for other artists. He's currently working on a new record.
Alfred Matthew Yankovic (b. 1959), also known as "Weird Al" Yankovic, is a veteran comedy musician and acclaimed parody artist. With over twelve albums, a full career spanning more than 23 years, and three Grammy awards, Yankovic is one of the best-known comedic musical performers in the world. In total, Al has sold more than 13 million albums, making him the biggest-selling comedy artist in music history.
Yankovic was the subject of a feature article, and cover line, in the Fall 1984 issue of Muppet Magazine. In the article, titled "Wocka, Wocka! It's Weird Al Yankovic!", Yankovic was interviewed by fellow comedy legend Fozzie Bear. In the article Yankovic talks about his start in performing, breaking into the music industry and his view on his success. Fozzie Bear states that his favorite of Yankovic's parody is "Eat It" (a parody of Michael Jackson's "Beat It"). The article, however, incorrectly referred to Yankovic's song "My Bologna" as "My Baloney!". The article was one of the selected articles later republished in the book The Best of Muppet Magazine.
A clip from Yankovic's 1984 music video for his song "Eat It" was featured in an episode of Muppet Babies. The episode credits however misspelled Yankovic's name as "Wierd Al" instead of "Weird Al". Another of Yankovic's music videos (for his song "You Don't Love Me Anymore") was filmed at Charlie Chaplin Studios in Los Angeles, California. The studio was later purchased by The Jim Henson Company.
In 1994 Yankovic's song "Bedrock Anthem" (a parody of two Red Hot Chili Peppers songs) was featured on the soundtrack for the feature film The Flintstones, which featured characters and effects by Jim Henson's Creature Shop. Although the song was not heard in the film, the song was featured on the album soundtrack, as well as Yankovic's album "Alapalooza".
As a connoisseur of pop-culture, "Weird Al" has declared his inner-Muppet inclinations on several occasions - including a 1999 LAUNCH.com chat:
Yankovic's 1985 song "Yoda", a parody of "Lola" by the Kinks about the Star Wars character Yoda, features a minor Muppet mention:
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Well, I've been around, but I ain't never seen a guy who looks like a Muppet, but he's wrinkled and green.
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"Weird Al"'s 1999 promotional television special "ALTV" on MTV featured an Al News segment where Yankovic announced the long-winded title of Fiona Apple's new CD. The fictional album title included a reference to Sesame Street's classic song "C is for Cookie".
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Hot on the heels of latest efforts, Fiona Apple has released yet another album. This one's called "I think I will never see a poem as lovely as a tree, chapter one call me Ishmael, some years ago never mind how long precisely having little or no money in my purse, hey who took my rice cakes, does anybody have a watch, what time is it, does anybody really know what time it is, does anybody really care, well it was the best of times it was the worst of times, cause all we are is dust in the wind, and did you ever think how like maybe our entire universe is really just a molecule in God's toenail, this world is a bunch of B.S. anyway, the important thing to remember is be your own person wear what you want to wear, if you feel good in a tube top you go girl, lather rinse repeat lather rinse repeat, I need to get toilet paper orange juice sunflower seeds Pepto-Bismol and more rice cakes, don't forget dentist appointment at 2:30, dear Cosmo my boyfriend won't leave me alone when I'm trying to come up with a album title, cut it out Paul, I'm trying to write here, I mean it cut it out, would you get the phone I'm busy, C is for cookie and that's good enough for me, shemalama ding-dong yabba dabba do zippidy do da zippidy ay, if you believe in peanut butter clap your hands, does this dress make me look fat, I'm not going to pay a lot for this muffler" - on sale Tuesday.
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Yankovic's 2003 song "Couch Potato", a parody of Eminem's "Lose Yourself", features a reference to The Muppet Show in the lyrics:
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Then I bet I'll watch The Bachelorette followed by Welcome Back, Kotter and The Muppet Show where they go "Mahna Mahna".
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The first Lost Rhapsody was set to the tune of "Weird Al" Yankovic's 'Bohemian Polka'. The artwork featured animation of clippings of image elements from the episodes, often accompanied by added mouth animations for speech and song. Robert Montjoy got the idea for his short video from a text version of the song which was posted by Captainaeon on the ABC Lost General board. Captainaeon outlined how the song should be sung by the cast of LOST and who should be singing which parts.
'Bohemian Polka' follows the exact lyrics of Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody'.
Robert Montjoy made an appearance on the Lost Season 2 DVD during the 'Mysteries, Theories and Conspiracies' featurette. He has stated in an interview that some of Lost's writers were fans of Lost Rhapsody, and suggested to include him on the DVD.
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This is a little flash movie I made for fans of the show LOST. I hope you like it! SPOILER WARNING: reveals major plot points, and yet will make little to no sense for people who have not watched the first season. Watch at your own risk! |
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Lost Rhapsody (original)
On December 6, 2006, Montjoy released the sequel, Lost Rhapsody II: Electric Boogaloo,[1] which also features parody music by "Weird Al" Yankovic. The song is "The Alternative Polka" from his 1996 album, Bad Hair Day, a medley of the songs Loser (Beck), Sex Type Thing (Stone Temple Pilots), All I Want To Do (Sheryl Crow), Closer (Nine Inch Nails), Bang and Blame (REM), You Oughta Know (Alanis Morisette), Bullet with Butterfly Wings (Smashing Pumpkins), My Friends (Red Hot Chili Peppers), I'll Stick Around (Foo Fighters), Black Hole Sun (Soundgarden), and Basket Case (Green Day).
The artwork in this second version is based on captured images that have been rotoscoped, retraced, and drawn from scratch, somewhat resembling cel-shaded animation. However often the entire screen has been thus captured from the episode video, rather than individual elements, such as characters or their faces, as in the first video. The characteristic syllable-based mouth animations from the opening of the first video have been used throughout the entire sequel.
During the video numbers are popping up at seemingly random intervals. So far, the following numbers have been discovered:
The Numbers 6 9 8 7 3 6 5 8 6 7 9 2 8 2 8 9 8 9 3 2 7 5 8 8 2 8 3 2 8 4 3 2
On the blast door map is a note instructing viewers to find all the numbers for a secret message.
The following comments were posted by Montjoy at the video's primary distribution at newgrounds.com:
This is my second full-length flash movie. Most of it was drawn and/or rotoscoped by hand except for a few frames that I let flash autotrace. It'll probably only make sense to people who watched season two of LOST, but I hope the rest of you like it too!
Lost Rhapsody 2
"SAYID'S ESCAPE PLAN #5 (This one will work!) 1. Steal Locke's trebuchet 2. Aim at California 3. Launch Sayid 4. Make out with Nadia" and "Nadia smells like flowers" (surrounded by hearts)
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"Weird Al" Yankovic is a well known musician who has made many parodies of songs including Star Wars parodies. Such include "Yoda," a parody of the song "Lola", and "The Saga Begins" a parody of the song "American Pie".
His albums featuring his Star Wars songs Dare to Be Stupid (Yoda) became a United States platinum record, and a Grammy Award Nominee for Best Comedy Recording in 1985. Running With Scissors (The Saga Begins) became a United States platinum record, Australian gold record, and Canadian gold record. Also, the video for his hit "White and Nerdy" gives reference to the Star Wars Kid, and shows him buying the Star Wars Holiday Special in a dark alley.
"Star Wars Rocks!" - Star Wars Insider 40
Weird Al: The Saga Begins... on StarWars.com (backup link on Archive.org) "Weird Al" -- Nerdy Something on StarWars.com (backup link on Archive.org)
'Weird Al' Yankovic at the Internet Movie Database
"Weird Al" Yankovic on Wikipedia
"Weird Al" Yankovic (born Alfred Matthew Yankovic on October 23, 1959) is a musician.
A multi-Grammy-winning musician for over twenty years, "Weird Al" is famous for his parodies of popular songs, as well as "style parodies" that emulate specific acts' musical styles.
Al has also directed music videos for various other musicians, including Ben Folds Five and Hanson. He has produced and starred in numerous specials on MTV and VH1, a cult-hit movie UHF, and his own one-season Saturday morning TV show. He also has a long list of cartoon voice acting cameos (particularly for Cartoon Network), appearing on such shows as Johnny Bravo, The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Robot Chicken... and Transformers Animated. He once made a song about a famous website appears in the 2007 movie.
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