#'Weird Al'' Yankovic

[beanwood]

real life cartoon character

[jestersroute66]

“As you should.” alright dont get sassy with me now

[lestatslestits]

Visual representation of listening to a popular song when you heard the Weird Al version first

[crypticauthour]

Even Weird Al has had that™ experience with Tony Hawk

[alsbrain]

[nudityandnerdery]

Sometimes I think about how satisfying it is to be writing lyrics to parody a song, and have your syllables and meter match up just right...

And then I think about how Weird Al has probably enjoyed this feeling thousands of times over his life, and I understand how he's such a friendly and happy dude. Good for him, he deserves it.

[weirdalbestshirts]

[junkfoodcinemas]

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022) dir. Eric Appel

[dailyankovic]

[leafaske]

the proposal was *checks entry 17* not accepted he definitely isn't soliciting the government for resources to build a portal gun for funsies, no sir

referencing this amazing photoset of weird al (thank you @thefloatingstone for putting this on my dash)

[atomic-chronoscaph]

UHF (1989)

[ifuckinglovelemondemon-srs]

How do i explain to someone that half of the things i listen to on Spotify is literally just white men singing about weird shit while screaming into the mic

[jestersroute66]

sooooo

can you tell which one of us is Hikaru?

[bizarrelovesquare]

a collection

[doyoulikethissong-poll]

"Weird Al" Yankovic - White & Nerdy 2006

"White & Nerdy" parodies the song "Ridin'" by Chamillionaire and Krayzie Bone. It both satirizes and celebrates nerd culture, and includes many references to activities stereotypically associated with nerds and white people, such as collecting comic books and action figures, editing Wikipedia and playing Dungeons & Dragons. The music video features Seth Green, Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele. Repeated scenes shows Yankovic along with Donny Osmond (the "whitest guy I could think of", according to Yankovic) dancing in front of the Schrödinger equation.

The song became Yankovic's first career Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. It peaked at #9, beating his previous #12 peak for 1984's "Eat It". This was also his first Top 40 single since 1992's "Smells Like Nirvana". Both "White & Nerdy" and Straight Outta Lynwood were certified gold, and later platinum, by the RIAA. This marks the first time any one of Yankovic's singles has been certified platinum. Total yes votes are 67,3%!

If you like Yankovic, make sure to also watch the totally historically accurate 2022 film about him; Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, starring Daniel Radcliffe.

[dilfsuzanneyk]

i recently made a post about coincidentally knowing a few people who first found weird al through their dads so i thought i'd make a silly poll!! (thank you @milfweirdal for the suggestion :D)