[SeekAndFind]

[Sans-Culotte]

I will never be able to enjoy Weird Al’s parodies again, because I am 100% unfamiliar with the material he is satirizing. Unless he satirizes Sinatra, or Mozart, or Bach or Beethoven, I will no longer be able to get the joke.

[SeekAndFind]

WORD CRIMES (parody of Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines)

[Maceman]

A couple of comedy sets came close since then, including Steve Martin's No. 2-peaking "A Wild and Crazy Guy" back in 1978 and a pair of No. 2 Cheech & Chong titles in the early 1970s.

Gee. Now I feel guilty because I always meant to buy those Cheech & Chong albums back when I was in college in the early 1970s, but for some reason I kept forgetting to do it.

[SeekAndFind]

FOIL (Parody of Lorde's Royals)

[Mr. K]

I LOVE “Amish Paradise” - I can watch that over and over...

[fatnotlazy]

Well deserved for a decent guy. Unlike many of the artists he parodies, Al doesn’t do drugs or drink to excess. You don’t hear about him cracking up his Porches or going to rehab. Family man too.

[FlipWilson]

Great album, very funny. Watch the video for “word crimes.” Even if you don’t know the song being sent up, watch it as it hits social media and its impact on the millennial’s writing skills right in then nose.

[Fiji Hill]

At football games, the USC Trojan Marching Band plays Weird Al's Another One Rides the Bus whenever the defense sacks the opposing team's quarterback.

[BuckeyeTexan]

Right on. Go Al!

[a fool in paradise]

What were the charts like in the 60s, 70s, and 80s?

Did it only take 104,000 copies of an album sale to hit #1?

It’s funny that the music biz has long said that new album sales are down because of “bootlegging”/downloading.

Does that same excuse hold for low Summer movie ticket sales? Declining tv and radio audiences? Declining newspaper and magazine sales?

[apillar]

Weird Al was joking on one of the music shows a few years back about how he was "just" a one-hit wonder. Although he was had dozens of top 40 songs, the only one to crack the top 10 was "White and Nerdy", his parody of "Ridin' Dirty" that hit 8 on the charts several years ago, technically making him a one-hit wonder by the standard definition of "an artist or group with only one top ten song". (of course he was in good company, because under that definition so was "The Grateful Dead", their only top ten song being "Touch of Grey")

Lol! I guess now he is a bonafide artist and not just a "flash in the pan" one-hit wonder....

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Weird Al as Hitler on “Drunk History” was hilarious. The funny clip isn’t on the web anywhere.

I found something I didn’t know about Weird Al while looking for the clip. He will not do anything if it involves using a curse word. Pretty rare these days.

[chaosagent]

I think my favorite Weird Al parody is his retelling of Star Wars Episode I to the tune of ‘American Pie’ called ‘The Saga Begins’.

Very well done.

[zeugma]

bfl

[BuckeyeTexan]

Fox News just said there’s a petition for Weird Al to play halftime at the Superbowl next year. Heh! Awesome.