Al Yankovic
Al Yankovic
Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic is an American singer, songwriter, parodist, record producer, satirist, actor, voice actor, music video director, film producer, and author. He is known for his humorous songs that make light of popular culture and often parody specific songs by contemporary musical acts, original songs that are style pastiches of the work of other acts, and polka medleys of several popular songs, featuring his favored instrument, the accordion...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth23 October 1959
CountryUnited States of America
I've done a movie and a TV series, and someday I'd like to do a successful movie and a successful TV series. That would be nice.
I'm watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
I don't watch a lot of other people's parodies because I don't want to be unduly influenced.
I'm very analytical, I'm very precise.
I'm obviously not a rapper, and I don't have any claims to be one, really.
How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you're doing?
You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.
In a genre where most of the artists are one-hit wonders, I've been able to hang around longer than most "serious" acts. I pride myself in being a very talented leech.
Whenever I do a parody it's not meant to make you hate anybody's music really.
When I go to my live shows it's often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist's performance on whether or not they had a good seat?
That's a big part of my life - doing things that I'm not prepared to do. Doing things that I don't know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them. I always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I'll catch up.
He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.
Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I'm praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.