WeirdAl-related stories
Posted Aug 6th 2009 9:02AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Music and Variety, Web, Celebrities, Reality-Free
He once saved a crowded school bus from falling off of a cliff ... using only a scarf.
Firefighters blamed him for the Laguna Wildfire when his Aviator sunglasses came in contact with the sun.
People stop and stare at every word he writes, particularly when he writes "boobs."
He is the most interesting man in the world. And his name is Charles Nelson Reilly. The actor, comedian, director and
Match Game fixture has been posthumously immortalized by comedy musician "Weird Al" Yankovic in
a new hilarious online single called "CNR".
Continue reading Charles Nelson Reilly kicked the holy living s*$& out of me
Posted Jun 27th 2009 3:03PM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: OpEd, Web, Celebrities, Reality-Free
Actor, comedian and classically trained suit wearer Joel McHale has taken his talent for riffing to the next level.
The star of
The Soup and the upcoming NBC sitcom
Community has joined forces with Michael J. Nelson's
Rifftrax.com to provide a running comedy commentary for the perennial craptastic 80s classic
Red Dawn. Nelson announced the guest commentary on the Rifftrax site and
his Twitter blog earlier this week.
Rifftrax, for those who may not be familiar with the site and are therefore in no way cool, is the comedy website that provides downloadable MP3s of funny movie commentaries featuring the voices and talents of the minds behind
Mystery Science Theater 3000 including Nelson, Bill Corbett and Kevin Murphy. It is the only reason I still own all three
Matrix films, that and the fact that my desk is missing part of a leg.
Continue reading TV's Joel McHale riffing with Rifftrax on Red Dawn
Posted Oct 3rd 2006 6:38PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Video, Web, Celebrities
Apparently, the key to getting a lot of votes on digg (and maybe Netscape, for all I know) is to mention
"Weird Al" Yankovic in some capacity or another. Blogger Scott Robbin decided to let everyone know what his
favorite ten Yankovic videos were, in order, and that got him
a whopping 1267 diggs.
Was there controversy? A little; Robbin ranks Al's new video, "White and Nerdy", as his 2nd favorite, ahead of the classic video for "Fat" and behind the song that catapulted Al into the song parody Pantheon, "Eat It." The video is pretty funny; both the song and video have little in-jokes that only the nerdiest among us would get ("I can write in both JavaScript and Klingon"). It's definitely one of his best. But #2? Not really. You can form your own opinion after watching the video, which is after the jump.
All ten videos -- including classics like "Like a Surgeon", "Amish Paradise", and "I Lost on
Jeopardy!" -- can be found on Robbin's page.
[via
Pop Candy]
Continue reading Watch a blogger's top ten Weird Al music videos - VIDEO
Posted Aug 9th 2006 11:02AM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, CBS, Video, Children
Amelie over at
The Hater found a full episode of
The Weird Al Show on YouTube. I've posted it after the jump so everyone can enjoy it until somebody finds out and takes it off of YouTube. This was the Saturday morning kids' show Al did for CBS in the late 90s, which was around the time I was starting to get over an infatuation with his music that had pretty much dictated my musical tastes for the better part of my early years. You can actually
buy the entire series on DVD when it comes out on August 15, but this is a nice preview. Lenny and Squiggy themselves, Michael McKean and David L. Lander, appear as miners. Listen for special guest voices Emo Philips and
Billy West in the "Fatman" cartoon segment. Enjoy for now:
Continue reading Watch Weird Al
Posted Feb 17th 2006 12:53PM by Ryan j Budke
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, OpEd, Lost
Lost, Weird Al Yankovic
h and Queen, "Three great tastes that taste great
threegether". This is the greatest thing I've seen in a long long time, and any fan of
Lost will gleam at
least a little humor from this. This is kind of along the lines of the Jib-Jab political cartoons from the past couple
of years. I'm not sure how to describe it beyond that too much. Just watch it. For me, the best part of the entire
short was Grimlock's (from the
Transformers) cameo. So head on over to Weird Al's site and
check out this short. Trust me, you'll love it.
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