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  • __NOEDITSECTION__ Image:Information-silk.png|Character Template rect 0 0 20 20 Staff Template desc none "Weird Al" Yankovic Real Name Unknown Job Titles Voice Actor First publication Unknown
  • "Weird Al" Yankovic là ca sĩ, người viết bài hát, nghệ sĩ châm biếm, nhà sản xuất thu âm, nghệ sĩ trào phúng, diễn viên, đạo diễn video âm nhạc, đạo diễn phim và nhà văn người Mỹ. Ông nổi tiếng với nhiều bài hát châm biếm văn hóa đại chúng và thường nhại lại những bài hát riêng của các nhạc sĩ đương đại, mô phỏng phong cách những tác phẩm của các nghệ sĩ khác và thực hiện liên khúc polka những bài hát nổi tiếng, cùng sự xuất hiện của đàn phong cầm. Ông lồng tiếng cho nhân vật Milo Murphy trong chương trình Milo Murphy's Law.
  • "Weird Al" Yankovic is an American singer and probably one of the best musical artist of modern times, and therefore one of the most liberal. He is also Vegetarian so there's some proof. He asks artists before he makes his parodies so the industry doesn't shoot him like they did 2Pac. Yankovic is a parody artist and probably the most famous in the genre. He has also received tons of praise from Urban Dictionary definitions, which is really quite something.
  • "Weird Al" Yankovic, the undisputed king of pop culture parody, (born October 23, 1959) has sold more comedy recordings than any other artist in history. In a career spanning nearly three decades, he has amassed 30 Gold and Platinum albums, 7 Gold and Platinum-certified home videos and 3 Grammy Awards (with 11 nominations). In recent years, Al has contributed some of his recent popular music to play during the various RiffTrax Live! show events and even was a guest-differ on Jurassic Park.
  • An accomplished director, Al has helmed many of his own award-winning music videos as well as clips for Ben Folds, Jeff Foxworthy, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Hanson, and The Black Crowes. His video for "Smells Like Nirvana," nominated for an MTV Video Music Award in 1992, was chosen by Rolling Stone as one of the "Top 100 Music Videos Of All Time." Al also created the critically acclaimed title sequence for the Leslie Nielsen feature film "Spy Hard."
  • Weird Al is a famous parody musician.
  • Weird Al Yankovic, AKA "Weird" Al Yankovic, AKA Weird Al "Yankovic", or better known by his pseudonym "Alfred Matthew" Yankovic, was born in Siberia from a hole in the snow. He later became famous after Nikita Khrushchev listened to "Let's Bomb Iraq" and promoted him to Entertainer In Chief of the KGB at the tender age of 8. Yankovic later moved to America, following an invitation by U.S. President Richard Nixon for tea, and a nice little record party. The Russians misinterpreted this act as treason, and Yankovic currently lives in exile as a wanted criminal of the Putin regime. If you have any information concerning Yankovic, please contact your local Russian consulate immediately. He is the son of King Alfred Yankovic VI.
  • "Weird Al" Yankovic is a musician who performs polkas on an accordion.
  • Al was used as a test subject to make the very first clone. Once the clone was completed, he actually made up a song about that called "I Think I'm a Sith Now", err, sorry, "I Think I'm a Clone Now". When finished, he made more clones to make more songs for him. However, his clones' songs didn't get published, so the clones placed them illegally on the internet. One song that had to do something with Star Wars,"Star Wars Cantina" (Duh), was never published, but told the cruelness of Chalmun's Cantina then he made two more yoda and the saga begins.
  • Weird Al Yankovic is a Guest Star as the voice of Singing Minstrel
  • Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic (Downey, California, 23 de octubre de 1959) es un humorista y cantante estadounidense, famoso por sus humorísticas canciones que iluminan la cultura popular y parodian canciones específicas de artistas musicales contemporáneos.
  • "Weird Al" Yankovic, or Alfred Matthew Yankovic, is a rock artist best known for his parodies of hit songs such as "Eat It" on Michael Jackson's "Beat It". Al did a few Star Wars related songs. The first was called Yoda and it appeared on his album "Dare To Be Stupid" and his second Star Wars song was based on the song "American Pie" and was called The Saga Begins this song appeared on his album "Running With Scissors". And in his Music Video for his song "White and Nerdy" there is a shot of a kid buying a copy of the "Star Wars Holiday Special."
  • Peel played "Weird Al" Yankovic's version of Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit called "Smells Like Nirvana" on his BBC Radio One show on 13 June 1992 and thought the record was: "Reasonably funny and worth a play I think" There has been no record of Peel playing any other "Weird Al" Yankovic records on his show, but Yankovic did play accordian on MC Lar's 2008 track "True Player For Real", whose lyrics include the words: "Piss off the British press when I’m like, “Who’s John Peel?”
  • Alfred Matthew Yankovic (b. 1959), widely 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. As a connoisseur of pop-culture, "Weird Al" has declared his inner-Muppet inclinations on several occasions - including a Dec. 26, 1999 LAUNCH.com chat:
  • Alfred Matthew Yankovic (born October 23, 1959, in Downey, California), is a musical humourist with a career spanning thirty years. Raised in Lynwood, Al got an accordion and lessons for his seventh birthday; according to him, his parents made the decision because "The world needed one more accordion-playing Yankovic" (the first being Frankie, who isn't related). When he went to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo for an architecture degree, he worked for the school's radio station as a disc jockey, where he got the nickname "Weird Al". Studio album discography: EP discography: Videography:
  • Yankovic's involvement in the show was first teased when he tweeted a link to a fan-made My Little Pony video set to his song "Polkarama!" in April 2011. Series director Jayson Thiessen later replied to the tweet, asking Yankovic if he was interested in "doing a guest spot on the show." Yankovic's appearance was teased further when he met with score composer William Anderson, who used to play harmonica and other instruments in Al's band, in August 2012. Songwriter Daniel Ingram was informed of Yankovic's official involvement sometime in 2013.
  • "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.
  • "Weird Al" Yankovic is an American singer, musician, actor, satirist, parodist, songwriter, accordionist, and television producer. He is known for writing and singing humorous songs that spoof other songs (examples are: Another One Rides The Bus (Spoofing: Another One Bites The Dust), Lasagna (Spoofing: Labamba) and Eat It (Spoofing: Beat It). Yankovic appeared in all three of the Naked Gun Films as himself in the first and the last film and in the second as a police station thug. Yankovic's first album Weird Al Yankovic was released in 1983 and reached nr. 139 on the Pop Album Chart. Yankovic also sang the title song for Spy Hard wich starred Leslie Nielsen (who portrays Frank Drebin in the films and the series). Yankovic has also written his own film (UHF) and his own tv series (The Weir
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