History Funny / WeirdAlYankovic

* His [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIGOch6SPdA interview]] for the ''Anime/Pokemon2000'' soundtrack, for which he wrote and performed "Polkamon," discussing how the root of all great music is polka and voicing genuine concern that there might be ''another'' polka on the soundtrack.

** Al playing "State Of Shock," "Another One Bites the Dust" and "Smoke on the Water" on the phone keypad!

** HilariousInHindsight: He pitches two song ideas to Jon which are parodies of songs he'd parody properly on ''Dare To Be Stupid'': "I Want A New Dog/Goat" and "Girls Just Want To Eat Cheese."
*** "I want a new dog / one that likes to eat cheese / one that's very well groomed / doesn't have too many... [[SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion ticks.]]"
** "WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU?? ''WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU?!?'' '''''[[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext LET'S EAT!!!!!!]]'''''
** "That's not Franchise/{{Lassie}}... it's some ''[[PrecisionFStrike bitch]]'' that's not Lassie!"
** Al playing "State Of Shock," "Another One Bites The Dust" and "Smoke On The Water" on the phone keypad!

I can't eat, I can't breathe, I can't snore
I can't belch or yodel anymore...
\\Can't spit or blow my nose or even read ''Magazine/SportsIllustrated''!''

It's such a drag now\\
I can't eat, I can't breathe, I can't snore, I can't belch or yodel anymore,\\
Can't spit or blow my nose or even read Sports Illustrated.''

I grabbed the driver and I asked him why\\
He said, "I'm sorry kid, you're late with the payments\\

I just smiled at him, then I [[TurnTheOtherCheek turned the other cheek]],\\
I really don't care, in fact I wish him well,\\
[[MoodWhiplash Cause I'll be laughing my head off when he's burning in hell]]''

** To put it in perspective - Music/KurtCobain himself cracked up at the video. When the author of a song laughs at its parody, that's a non-subjective SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}} right there.

* "Dare To Be Stupid" has his announcement that "Mashed potatoes can be your friends"...while emerging from a large pot with [[DeclarativeFinger a finger raised]] and an "AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle" expression. It takes a great comedian to keep a straight face saying that line and having mashed potatoes in his hair.
** All of "Dare to be Stupid" counts, really.

** The guitar solo is also a brilliant parody of Eddie Music/VanHalen's solo on the original. It's funny as well. It's played on the recording by Music/RickDerringer.

*** Al's official channel has [[https://youtu.be/Vq6OncN6_Fo?si=75oWGfyTsGylXYxy "take one"]] of the music video, where none of the green screen effects or other scenes have been added in yet - so it's just three minutes of Al lip-syncing Donny Osmond [[FunnyBackgroundEvent does extremely goofy dance moves behind him]].

** Al's official channel has [[https://youtu.be/Vq6OncN6_Fo?si=75oWGfyTsGylXYxy "take one"]] of the music video, where none of the green screen effects or other scenes have been added in yet - so it's just three minutes of Al lip-syncing while Creator/DonnyOsmond [[FunnyBackgroundEvent does extremely goofy dance moves behind him]].

** The guitar solo is also a brilliant parody of Eddie Music/VanHalen’s solo on the original. It’s funny as well. It’s played on the recording by Music/RickDerringer.

--> ''Satan eats Cheez Whiz!''

--> Ever since the day you left me, I've been so miserable, my dear! [[spoiler: I feel almost as bad as I did, [[TakeThat when you were still here]]!]]
* "I Remember Larry": Larry's "pranks" definitely CrossTheLineTwice, especially "when he cut my car in half." Even more so the last verse, where the narrator reminisces on the time he [[spoiler:left Larry to die bound and gagged in the middle of the woods]] and thinks Larry would agree "it was a pretty good gag."

* The song "Foil" starts out as a seemingly normal song about food, par for the course for Al...[[spoiler: and then veers off halfway through into conspiracy theories, [[OneWorldOrder New World Order]], [[AlienAbduction alien abduction]], and [[TheIlluminati Illuminati]], and how a foil hat will protect you.]] It's doubly funny because Weird Al is so well known for songs about food that you'd never see it coming.
** [[spoiler: And the actual Illuminati was flattered enough [[https://twitter.com/alyankovic/status/510823324776026115 to send Al a gift basket.]]]]

** Al was a contestant on ''[[Series/{{Jeopardy}} Rock and Roll Jeopardy!]]'' in 2001. [[SelfFulfillingProphecy Guess]] [[ForegoneConclusion what]] [[LifeImitatesArt happened?]] [[spoiler:He lost on Jeopardy. Baby.]]

* When it was announced that Creator/DanielRadcliffe would be playing Al in a biopic, Al said that he was thrilled, to the point that, "I have no doubt whatsoever that this is the role future generations will remember him for." Keeping in mind [[Franchise/HarryPotter where Radcliffe started]]...

** Even better because not only has Prince consistently denied Al the right to parody his songs, but the number 27 is an arc number for him. Weird Al ribbed him in more ways than one.

** Al [[TakeThat vandal]][[WikiVandal izing]] the Atlantic Records Website/{{Wikipedia}} page by writing "'''YOU SUCK!'''"

* The stanza introducing [[Franchise/SpiderMan Norman Osborn]] in "[[Film/SpiderMan1 Ode to a Superhero]]", just for the rhyme Al creates for "screwy".

* Creator/EmoPhillips shows off one of his royalty checks for appearing in ''Film/{{UHF}}''. For thirty cents. "It's the gift that keeps on giving."

'''Weird Al:''' Uh... No? I pretty sure it's Jessica ''Simpson''.\\