The video for "Weird Al" Yankovic's much-discussed Lady Gaga parody "Perform This Way" has at last arrived and it's ... kind of unnecessary? True to Al's form, the visuals are literal translations of his lyrics, but skewering someone as outlandish as Lady Gaga feels like shooting fish in an egg. We don't need Weird Al to tell us that Lady Gaga wears silly things, and then show us how silly they are by wearing them himself. Most of us have functioning eyeballs and were able to take in the intentional spectacle of the meat dress or police-tape outfit the first time around...
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We already knew that "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Polka Face" would reference Lady Gaga's "Poker Face," but the rest of the relatively recent pop hits he runs through in under five minutes are news to us. Courtesy of Stereogum, here's what's covered...
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"Weird Al" Yankovic has been cleared to use his parody of Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" on his upcoming album.
On Wednesday, the pop parodist posted a lengthy screed on his blog he called "The Gaga Saga," in which he claimed that the pop diva had blocked the song's use on his next collection. Yankovic's frustration was palpable, since, according to him, he jumped through all of the necessary hoops (all of them through Gaga's people, not her directly) to get his "Perform This Way" cleared...
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Zach Galifianakis' Funny or Die web series, Between Two Ferns, took home two Streamy Awards — for best comedic actor and best comedy series.
The second annual Streamy Awards ...
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Ray Charles got one. So did Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan. Hey, even Dewey Cox got one. So it's about time that Weird Al Yankovic's life story is immortalized in film.
The folks at Funny or Die have unveiled its latest creation, a fake trailer for the stirring Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (which is not coming to a theater near you).
Watch videos of Weird Al
Mocking every formulaic convention of the biopic — succeeding in his ...
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