But people get very sensitive about, “Don't give away anything!” But I just mentioned that, and everyone was like, “Spoiler, spoiler!” That’s not really giving away the plot, really, to say somebody was wearing a T-shirt. I was very happy to make those appearances. Clark was listening to “My Bologna” in episode two. Dustin’s wearing a T-shirt with my face on it, and Mr. Actually, you know, I posted online I make two appearances in it. What did you think? Were you pleased with the third season? “Weird” Al: I finished last night about 5 in the morning. Q: I’ve got to ask you if you were binge-watching the third season of “Stranger Things” yesterday? For more information, visit or stop by the box office at 450 S. Yankovic will headline the July 23 “Tuesdays in the Park” concert at Artpark in Lewiston. Yankovic is a pop culture legend recently seen as a T-shirt on “Stranger Things,” and paying homage to Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway masterpiece with “The Hamilton Polka.” He has sold millions of records parodying Michael Jackson (“Eat It,” “Fat”), Madonna (“Like A Surgeon”), Queen (“Another One Rides the Bus”), Nirvana (“Smells Like Nirvana”) and Coolio (“Amish Paradise”). “Weird Al” Yankovic is a five-time Grammy winner and the top comedy recording artist of all time. 4.Fri, Jul 12th 2019 06:45 pm READ: Musical icons to take stage at Artpark: 'Weird Al' & Sarah McLachlan to perform in Lewiston Weird: The Al Yankovic Story is available to stream for free in Canada on The Roku Channel from Nov. This might just be the funniest comedy of the year. Weird Al himself pops up as a record executive who doesn’t get why people would want to listen to parodies of music they already own. It’s high-energy, non-stop zaniness, full of bonkers, off-the-wall humour and celebrity cameos, as in famous people playing different famous people. And he’s telling a Colombian drug lord: “Pablo Escobar, you just made the biggest mistake of your life.” Just after Weird Al’s first foray into non-parody songs with the food-themed He’s also feuding with Michael Jackson, who had the audacity to release In short order he’s dating Madonna (Evan Rachel Wood), who can’t decide whether their celebrity couple name should be Weirdonna or Madonnavic. Demento (Rainn Wilson), Yankovic quickly climbs the ladder of fame, turning down a spot with Queen at Live Aid, kicking the Knicks out of Madison Square Garden for his 25-night sold-out concert, and marveling at the feeling of “hearing 20,000 people singing along to my words … to other people’s music.” , while making sandwiches and listening to the Knack’sĭiscovered by novelty-song aficionado Dr. As a young man (a bizarrely, perfectly cast Daniel Radcliffe in signature hair, moustache and glasses) he writes his first hit parody song, Young Alfred Yankovic buys an accordion from a door-to-door squeezebox salesman and dreams of becoming the most famous performer in a very specific subgenre of music. The now-finished film, which had a raucous world premiere at the Toronto festival in September and now arrives on the streaming service Roku, follows the same basic beats. The project began almost a decade ago with a fake trailer (I guess it’s not fake any more) on the website. If anything doesn’t jibe with the life of its subject, that’s Weird Al’s fault for not living up to his name. Writer/director Eric Appel and co-writer/subject Weird Al Yankovic dared to go the other way. Each has been accused of getting some detail of its subject’s life wrong, the better to fit the cinematic form. Judy, Bohemian Rhapsody, House of Gucci, Eyes of Tammy Fay Turns out biopics have been doing it all wrong.
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