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Weird Al Yankovic Filmography
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Weird Al Yankovic: Works
Since Al got a record contract in 1983, he has released many albums and parodies. The following is a comprehensive list of his albums to 2003:
- Weird Al Yankovic - 1983
- "Weird Al" Yankovic in 3-D - 1984
- Dare to Be Stupid - 1985
- Polka Party - 1986
- Even Worse - 1988
- UHF (movie soundtrack) - 1989
- Off the Deep End - 1992
- Alapalooza - 1994
- Bad Hair Day - 1996
- Running With Scissors - 1999
- Poodle Hat - 2003
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- UHF- 1989: A commercially unsuccessful movie satirizing the television industry, starring Yankovic, Michael Richards, Fran Drescher and Victoria Jackson.
- Babalu Music - 1991: A collection of I Love Lucy music.
- Peter and the Wolf - 1988: "This warped classical children's record featuring narration and poems written by "Weird Al" Yankovic and music arranged, composed and performed by synthesizer whiz Wendy Carlos" - WeirdAl.com. Weird Al's text modifies the original story considerably: "The Grandfather will be played by... Don Ameche! What? He can't make it?", while the music features various innovations by Wendy Carlos over the original by Sergei Prokofiev. Side two of the album is "Carnival of the Animals, Part II" which is a sort of homage to The Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saens, with Weird Al taking the role of Edward Lear in writing humorous poems about the slug, the shark, etc.
Weird Al had a short-lived TV series called The Weird Al Show, which aired from September 1997 to January 1998 on CBS. Though the show appeared to be geared at children, the humor was really more for adult fans of Al.
Al has hosted AL-TV on MTV many years, generally coinciding with the release of each new album. For Poodle Hat, however, AL-TV appeared on VH1. The most popular part of AL-TV is Al manipulating interviews especially commissioned for AL-TV by the network for comic effect.
VH1 produced a Behind the Music episode on Al. Al is so clean-cut that the producers couldn't find any of the typical angst-laced problems that make many rock stars' stories compelling (as Al noted in an interview with BTM), so their angle was on Al's life as a bachelor and (what they presumed was) his loneliness. (Also, the commercial failures of UHF
and Polka Party). However, since the taping, Al has married. He and his wife, Suzanne, recently had a daughter, Nina.
Al has also made a number of cameo film appearances, including all three Naked Gun films.He currently plays a role in the "Haunted Lighthouse 4-D" Show at the Busch Gardens Williamsburg theme park. He has also appeared in cartoons such as EEK! The Cat
, The Simpsons
, The Brak Show
, Johnny Bravo
and The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, lending his voice to that of the Squid Hat, a parody of the Sorting Hat in the Harry Potter series.
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