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"Weird Al" Yankovic is practically the personification of "funny". His songs have at least one Funny Moment by their very nature.

Songs and Videos:

"Weird Al" Yankovic (Album)

"Weird Al" Yankovic in 3-D

  • The video for "Eat It". From the Spit Take onward, it skews every visual cue from Michael Jackson's "Beat It" video with unerring accuracy. And funny as hell.
    • It's also the parody song that put Weird Al on the map.
    • The guitar solo is also a brilliant parody of Eddie Van Halen's solo on the original. It's funny as well. It's played on the recording by Rick Derringer.
  • The backmasked message in "Nature Trail to Hell":
    Satan eats Cheez Whiz!

Dare to Be Stupid

  • "Dare To Be Stupid" has his announcement that "Mashed potatoes can be your friends"...while emerging from a large pot with a finger raised and an "And Knowing Is Half the Battle" 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.
    • "I can't hear you! (Dare to be stupid!) Okay, I can hear you now..."
    • The song is a style-parody of Devo. Mark Mothersbaugh once stated that he hated Weird Al for doing the song before he could.
  • "Girls Just Want to Have Lunch", just from how deliberately bad he made it.
  • The "Like a Surgeon" video is one of his all-time greats, starting with the P.A. system announcing, "Paging Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard". Other random wackiness included:
    • The "Operation" board game on display in the O.R.
    • Al performs magic tricks on the patient which concludes with him pulling a rabbit from his chest, to the other surgeons' applause.
    • "Madonna's" appearance as one of the nurses.
    • The EKG machine at one point displays George of the Jungle.
    • Al's spirited dancing, including the ending that has a Shout-Out to "Lucky Star".

Polka Party!

  • "Good Enough For Now" is three minutes of the most backhanded compliments ever put on wax.
  • It wasn't enough for Al to do pitch-perfect Talking Heads style parody in "Dog Eat Dog"... he dons a gigantic blazer a la David Byrne in "Stop Making Sense" to perform it.

Even Worse

UHF - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Other Stuff

  • A clever transition in "Hot Rocks Polka", Al's polka tribute to The Rolling Stones:
    So goodbye, Ruby Tuesday
    Who could hang a name on you
    When you change with every new day
    Still... I'm gonna miss you
    (silly woo-woo version of the hook from "Miss You")

Off the Deep End

  • Special mention for the "Smells Like Nirvana" music video. ALL OF IT.
    • To put it in perspective - Kurt Cobain himself cracked up at the video. When the author of a song laughs at its parody, that's a non-subjective Funny Moment right there.
    • Speaking of "Smells Like Nirvana", here's a lyric from the live version:
      And I forgot the next verse....
      (falls silent for two straight bars)
      ...Oh well, whatever, never mind
    • The original lyrics for that point in the song are pretty funny, too:
      And I forgot the next verse,
      Oh well, I guess it pays to rehearse...
      The lyric sheet's so hard to find,
      What are the words? Oh, nevermind
    • You can tell this helped Kurt crack up quite a bit from this.
      Well I'm yellin', and we're playing,
      But I don't know what I'm saying!
      A banana, dadadada, nananana, badabada... (cue gibberish)
    • "garglegarglegarglegarglegarglegargle..."
    • Al's guitar turning into rubber.
    • It's hard to bargle nawdle zouss ??? / With all these marbles in my mouth.
    • The random Man on Fire in the background of the video.
  • "You Don't Love Me Anymore" is borderline disturbing... and totally hilarious.
    I knew that we were having problems when
    You put those piranhas in my bathtub again
    You're still the light of my life
    Oh darling, I'm beggin', won't you put down that knife?

Alapalooza

  • Hilarious in Hindsight: "Jurassic Park" condenses all of the miserable experiences of the movie's tour group into one funny, unidentified first-person perspective, but between the "I admit it's kind of eerie/But this proves my chaos theory" lines and the general snarky tone it's easy to regard it as Dr. Ian Malcolm's Image Song. Guess which character's become the most popular human in the franchise?

Bad Hair Day

Running with Scissors

  • The entirety of "Albuquerque" with these special mentions:
    • "IT'S GOOD FOR YOU!!"
    • Al graphically explaining the plane crash and then telling how he survived:
      Cause I had my tray table up
      And my seat back in the full upright position
      Had my tray table up
      And my seat back in the full upright position
      Had my tray table up
      And my seat back in the full upright position
      A-HA-HA-HAAA! HA-HA-HAAA! Haaa...
    • "And just as I suspected, it's some big fat hermaphrodite with A Flock of Seagulls haircut and only one nostril. Aw man, I hate it when I'm right!"
    • The entire donut shop scene. On tours, Al would extend the Overly Long Gag with different kinds of donuts, some fictional (e.g. "Do you have any Halle Berry donuts?").
    • ”Y’know I think it was just about that time that a little ditty started going through my head, I believe it went a little something like this”:
      DOOHHH!! GET ‘EM OFF ME! GET ‘EM OFF ME! OHHH! NO, GET ‘EM OFF, GET ‘EM OFF! OH, OH GOD, OH GOD! OH, OH GOD! AH, AHH, AHHH!!
    • "The world was our burrito. So we got married and we bought us a house and had two beautiful children, Nathaniel and Super Fly!"
    • Al asks a guy named Marty if he'd like some help moving a sofa. Marty answers with "NO, I want you to cut off my arms and legs with a chainsaw!" (Beat) "So I did. And then he starts getting all indignant on me. He was like, 'Hey, man! I was just being sarcastic!' Well, that's just great. How was I supposed to know? I'm not a mind-reader for crying out loud. Besides, now he's got a really cute nickname: Torso Boy! So what's he complaining about?"
    • The fact that Al was merely telling the story just to point out his hatred of sauerkraut!
    • In the liner notes, the lyrics are cut off after the first few stanzas, replaced by this message:
      "... you know what? The rest of these lyrics aren't gonna fit on here. There's just no room left. What a drag, huh? I guess we didn't plan this out very well... probably should've used a smaller font or a bigger piece of paper or something. Sorry. We all feel just horrible about this. Well, I guess you'll have to listen really carefully and try to figure out the words yourself. Good luck."
  • Al's unfailing cheerful delivery of all the terrible things predicted in "That's Your Horoscope for Today":
    Gemini!
    Your birthday party will be ruined once again by your explosive flatulence
    Your love life will run into trouble when your fiancé/e hurls a javelin through your chest
    Cancer!
    The position of Jupiter says that you should spend the rest of the week face down in the mud
    Try not to shove a roll of duct tape up your nose while taking your driver's test
    [...]
    Sagittarius!
    All your friends are laughing behind your back... KILL THEM.
    Take down all those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine you've got hanging in your den
    Capricorn!
    The stars say that you're an exciting and wonderful person, but you know they're lying
    If I were you, I'd lock my doors and windows, and never never never never ever leave my house again!
  • "Jerry Springer" has this bit of dialogue:
    Man: Baby, I've been sleepin' with your sister.
    Woman: Oh? Well, which one?
    Man: All of Them...
    Woman: Oh! Well, I've been sleepin' with your best friend Jake!
    Man: Yeah? Well, me too!
    Woman: Oh!
    Man: And I've been sleepin' with your dog Woofie!
    (barking)
    Woman: Woofie, you b(bleep)tch! ...Well, I'm also sleeping with your pet goat!
    (bleating)
    Man: That goat doesn't love you!
  • "Germs". A parody of Nine Inch Nails' style, it's pure hilarity from how Al's exuberant singing style just clashes yet at the same time works so well against a genre/style much Darker and Edgier than is usual for him. And that's not even getting to the lyrics...
  • The account given in "The Saga Begins" of Yoda warning Qui-Gon about Anakin.
    They interviewed the kid
    Oh, training they forbid
    Because Yoda sensed in him much fear
    And Qui-Gon said, "Now listen here
    Just stick it in your pointy ear
    I still will teach this boy"

Poodle Hat

  • Pretty much the entirety of "A Complicated Song", but special mention goes to the final two choruses.
    Tell me,
    Why'd I have to go and get myself decapitated?
    It really is a major inconvenience
    Oh man, I really hate it
    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.
  • "Angry White Boy Polka":
    (In an incredibly cheerful voice) "I cry, when angels deserve to die, die, die, d-d-die-die-die-die-die. HEY!"
  • "Hardware Store"'s infamous Motor Mouth list includes many things one would expect to find at a typical hardware store...with "automatic circumcisers" slipped into the middle of it.
  • The stanza introducing Norman Osborn in "Ode to a Superhero", just for the rhyme Al creates for "screwy".
    Now Norman's a billionaire scientist
    Who never had time for his son
    But then something went screwy
    And before you knew he
    Was trying to kill everyone

Straight Outta Lynwood

  • From another parody called "Trapped In The Drive-Thru":
    Then we drive to the drive-thru
    Heading off to the drive-thru
    We're approaching the drive-thru
    Getting close to the drive-thru!
    Almost there at the drive-thru
    Now we're here at the drive thru
    Here in line at the drive-thru
    Did I mention the drive-thru?
    • The fact that the original version is so over-the-topnote  that the only way Al could made it funny was to have the lyrics be as banal as possible.
    • And of course, the ending — they wound up forgetting the onions.
  • Just about every line of "Confessions Part III", but especially when he admits to dressing up like Shirley Temple (or, in the live shows, Sarah Palin) and spanking himself with a hockey stick.
    • Somebody synched the lyrics to Usher's video for the original Confessions Part II. Some of Usher's dance moves and gestures fit the lyrics so well, it was uncanny—for example, "when I'm kissing you, I fantasize you're a midget!" plays when Usher kneels in front of the woman and hugs her legs, and the spoken part in the bridge "remember that shirt you got me for my birthday? Well, I returned it for store credit.note " plays just after Usher has stripped off his undershirt in the video. At other junctures, the lyrics make Usher's dramatic gesturing narmtastically funny: for instance, he agonizes on his knees over giving his significant other buttered toast he dropped and picked up off of the floor as if it's the worst thing he's ever done. One gets the sense that Al was writing the lyrics while watching the original music video.
  • "Weasel Stomping Day" starts off as an amusing parody of all those upbeat, cheesy songs from holiday specials. Then the actual weasel stomping begins. It's so very wrong, but yet so very hilarious.note 
  • "White & Nerdy"
    • Al, dressed as a nerd, mowing the front lawn when he stops and waves enthusiastically at the gangsters (Key & Peele) who frown in response. Al then walks up to them wanting to shake their hands, but they drive away as he gets near the car.
      • Not just drive away, they lock the car doors as if they're afraid he's going to bust into their vehicle and contaminate them with his icky nerdiness.
      • Bonus points that they do this while driving in a convertible with the top down.
    • Al showing off the rims on his car: they're stock rims on a Toyota Prius.
    My rims never spin; to the contrary
    You'll find that they're quite stationary
  • "Don't Download This Song" is a lighthearted Take That! toward the whole "Digital Piracy Is Evil" mindset, with Al mentioning the life of crime you'll inevitably lead if you even think of downloading illegally:
    You start out stealing songs, then you're robbing liquor stores
    And selling crack and running over school kids with your car
    Don't take away money
    From artists just like me
    How else can I afford another solid gold Humvee?
    And diamond-studded swimming pools
    These things don't grow on trees!
  • All the frivolous lawsuits in "I'll Sue Ya", especially the last ones in the two verses.

Alpocalypse

  • "Party in the CIA" is hilarious, as one fan put it "It's hauntingly accurate, I hope we don't have to kill him."
    • "Better put your hands up and get in the van, Or else you'll get blown away!"
    • "We only torture the folks we don't like, You're probably gonna be OK!"
    • "Burn that microfilm, buddy, will you? I'd tell you why, but then I'd have to kill you."
    • The song's protagonist says he is in no rush to assassinate a particular dictator, only to happen to cross paths with him and shoot him. This is rendered in the music video as them being at a bar. Al hides his gun with a folder, shoots the man, then shoots him twice more before leaving. Then reaches back into frame and steals his drink.
    • One of the selling points for the CIA is that they've got "a better dental plan than the FBI."
  • The video for "Perform This Way". Weird Al's face superimposed over a woman's body, exhibiting outfits so outrageous that they manage to out-Gaga Lady Gaga. (with a few real Gaga outfits thrown in, such as the one made of raw meat - though good luck figuring out without doing the research which ones were the real thing) Highlights include a singing porcupine on his/her head, a Taj Mahal/Octopus combo, and a cameo by Madonna impersonator Holly Beavon who appears during the line "I'm so completely original" and later throws in the "Express yourself" reference.
    • For those wondering about the French he speaks "for no reason", it literally translates to, "Excuse me, who farted?"
    • "I'll poke your eye out with a dress like this" *slam* ("Aaaaugh!!") "Back off and enjoy the show!"
    • There's a behind-the-scene video comparing between the final result of the video and the pre-edit one where Weird Al's face has not been superimposed on Vlada Gorbaneva's. The fact that Vlada managed to keep a completely straight expression during the entire shot (with a few minor lapses) is hilarious in and of itself.
    • When doing live performances of this song, expect Al to be wearing something like an octopus suit with an ice cream cone for a hat, with the band's outfits being only slightly less bizarre.
  • The video for "Polka Face". It's the first music video for a polka medley, and boy does it show. Highlights include: the "baby" snippet, where a baby Justin Bieber is looking forward to get some breast milk (as a nod to his Likes Older Women status) only to be given a pacifier instead, the "I kissed a girl" part where Katy Perry "hopes her boyfriend doesn't mind", with his response being a couple of thumbs-ups, Lady Gaga being generally even crazier than usual, and Weird Al's own appearance as his own Super-Deformed avatar.
    • The Womanizer. Dear God, the Womanizer.
    • It's essentially a professional Newgrounds video.
  • The "Another Tattoo" video. Highlights include the tattoos of 4 of his ex-girlfriends (and Clay Aiken), zombie Ronald Reagan, his grocery list, and the geisha tattoo that is actually a tentacle monster.
  • The fact that Weird Al managed to turn Charles Nelson Reilly, a goofy Camp Gay comedian famous for being on Match Game, into a Memetic Badass who would put Chuck Norris Facts to shame.
  • The voice-overs provided by Tom Kenny in "TMZ".
    We caught this Oscar nominee picking up dog poop!
    Is that a baby bump?
    I pronounce you guilty of leaving the house while fat!
    Look who's drinking coffee!
    Everything celebrities do is fascinating!
  • "Stop Forwarding That Crap to Me":
    And by the way, your "quotes from George Carlin"
    Aren't really George Carlin
    Mr. Rogers never fought the Viet Cong
    And Bill Gates is never gonna give me something for nothing
    And I highly doubt some dead girl's gonna kill me if I don't pass your letter along!

Mandatory Fun

  • The entirety of the song "Tacky" and the accompanying music video, but special mention must go to the cameos by Aisha Tyler, Margaret Cho, Eric Stonestreet, Kristen Schaal, and Jack Black.
    • Or "Wear my Ed Hardy shirt with fluorescent orange pants! Got my new résumé, it's printed in Comic Sans!"
    • "I think it's fun threatening waiters with a bad Yelp review!"
    • Or this utterly audacious line, especially when lip-synced by the pleasantly plump Margaret Cho in the music video.
      I met some chick, ask her this and that,
      Like "Are you pregnant, girl, or just really fat?" ("WHAT?!")
    • The stuff involving practicing twerking moves at the D.M.V & taking off one's shirt (at least) at the bank.
      • Not helped by the twerking in the video being done by Jack Black. Wearing a sequined fanny pack.
    • "I would live-tweet a funeral, take selfies with the deceased..." followed by, "...If I'm bit by a zombie, I'm probably not telling you...if you're okay with that then you're probably tacky, too!" Looks like the subject of the funeral got up and bit him.
  • "Scream & Shout" has a portion in the polka medley "Now That's What I Call Polka!", in which the lyrics are accompanied by realistic screaming in the background (provided by Al's wife), and the line "let it out" is accompanied by a fart noise.
    • "Best Song Ever" is changed slightly.
      I think it went "Guh eh guh!"
      I think it went "Guhliy-ge guh!"
      I think it went "E-e-e-e-e-e-eeeey, sexy lady!"
    • Weird Al's take on Gangnam Style with "HEEEEEYYYY SEXY LAAAADDDY" a la Jerry Lewis.
  • The song "Foil" starts out as a seemingly normal song about food, par for the course for Al...and then veers off halfway through into conspiracy theories, New World Order, alien abduction, and 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.
  • This awesome line in the Robin Thicke parody "Word Crimes": "You should neeeeverrrrrr... write words using numbers! Unless you're seven! Or your name is Prince!"
    • Even better because not only has Prince consistently denied Al the right to parody his songs, but the number 7 is an arc number for him. Weird Al ribbed him in more ways than one.
      And I thought that you'd gotten it through your skull,
      'Bout what's figurative and what's literal,
      Oh, but just now you said,
      You "literally couldn't get out of bed."
      That really makes me want to literally,
      Smack a crowbar upside your stupid head!
    • His later assessment:
      "Your prose is dopey / think you should only / write in emoji / Oh you're a lost cause!"
    • The little details are just as hilarious, like how when the video gets to 'you're a lost cause', the screen changes to look like an ad for the show Lost, and in the corner, where the ABC logo goes, it says 'learn your abc's, doofus'. In addition, when Clippy shows up, the 'dismiss' button says 'go away forever', something a lot of users probably agree with.
    • The line "Irony is not coincidence" is accompanied by a picture of a bride and groom getting rained on.
  • "Mission Statement" takes a load of corporate buzzwords and makes them into a Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young-styled song.
  • "Jackson Park Express" is a lengthy story about a out-of-control Facial Dialogue conversation, but amid the general escalation and silliness, one line stands out.
    Then I glanced down at her shirt for a second
    In a way that clearly implied "I like your boobs"
    • Another from the same song (and potentially useful as a real pick-up line): "You are my answer to everything, which is why I'll probably do very poorly on the written part of my driver's test."
    • And the implication that most of what's said is clearly just in the delusional mind of the protagonist while the woman of his affection is wondering why this weirdo is gawking at her.
  • The entirety of "My Own Eyes". Brain Bleach at its funniest and most disturbing.
    • Especially the "diabetic chicks" who snort Pixy Stix while belching Stairway To Heaven, the drag queens cracker nose-stuffing contest & the Hara Kiri Guinea pig-turned-hackey sack.

Fake Interviews

  • "We all got cellphones, so come on let's get real..."
  • The whole of the Avril Lavigne one, helped by Avril being clearly batshit insane.
    Avril: (scared, paranoid) Oh my god, cameras, oh my god!
    Weird Al: No, no, Avril! Cameras are your friends! Cameras are here to help you! Cameras gooood...
    Avril: (happy) Cameras!
    • Also from the Avril interview:
      Weird Al: Okay, now do your impression of one of those automatic lawn sprinkler things.
      Avril: (nodding while moving her head around the room) Okay, 'sup, 'sup, 'sup, 'sup...
    • Behold: Avril's favorite punk song:
      Avril: The Y... MCA song.
      Weird Al: Ah, yes, the Village People, how very... punk...
  • The Jessica Simpson interview.
    • The introduction:
      Weird Al: The one and only: Mrs. Jessica Simpson!
      Jessica: Uh, my name is Jessica Sampson.
      Weird Al: Uh... No? I pretty sure it's Jessica Simpson.
      Jessica: Jessica Sampson.
      Weird Al: Ooookay... Well, uh... Welcome to AL TV, Jessica Sampson. And you can just call me "Wired Al Iankuwitz"!
    • Al decides to go for a softball:
      Weird Al: I heard you just go the cutest, sweetest, brand-new, little puppy-dog. How's that working out for ya?
      Jessica: (matter-of-factly) I'm shooting it in April.
      Weird Al: (disheartened) Oh...
  • The Eminem interview. The "you know what I'm saying" bit, Eminem talking about coming out, his triple negatives and the f^))&^king trees!
    Al: I have to admit I was a little bit nervous about doing this interview.
    Eminem: Relax, guy. I like gay men.
    Al: ...that's great, but... I'm not gay.
    Eminem: (sounding almost offended) I don't believe that.
  • Asking Ozzy Osbourne if he's ever seen Ernest Goes to Camp — and when Ozzy answers no, Al offering to have it projected on his own butt.
  • Requesting Bruce Springsteen to say something completely incoherent, and Bruce obliges.
  • The Kevin Federline interview. All of it. Al seems to express a genuine disdain for the man, unlike his other interviews.
  • Robert Plant's interview, where he asks to hold hands with Al near the end.
    Weird Al: ...Well, well, you know, I...All right. You know, I-I-I'm confident enough in my masculinity that I don't feel threatened or nervous or...uncomfortable holding hands with a—with another man, it's, uh...nothing-nothing wrong with that...It's...There. So um...Anything else I can do for you?
    Robert: Squeeze my lemon.
    Weird Al: (stares in shock) ...That's about all the time we have left! Our guest has been Mr. Robert Plant, thanks for coming, Robert...We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming...
  • During the Uma Thurman interview, Al gets her donuts from Dunkin Donuts to try to persuade her to sing karaoke, but:
    Uma: I don't really consider a Dunkin Donut a fresh donut.
    (Beat as Al looks shocked)
    Weird Al: (throwing the donut box to the ground) WHAT THE FU-
    (Technical Difficulties - Please Stand By)

Other Al TV/AlMusic moments

  • The testimonial of "Roxanne", represented only by a shot of her glossed lips:
    Hi...This is Roxanne...[licks lip]...And I watch Al TV, because it makes me want to go...[warbles lips with finger]
  • Weird Al in Alanis Morissette's "Ironic" video.
  • From the 1996 Al TV special (with the original/parody videos), while playing with some toy cars and making them crash and pile up to some graphic commentary, he brings in a toy alligator and then "a giant GENE SIMMONS!"
  • Later in that special, Al has a tattoo done of "Kennedy 4 Ever" (The VJ), then later on adding a rendering of her face. When the latter doesn't turn out so well, he asks to have it "crossed out" instead of going through a removal—And is agonizing going into the commercial break.
  • While hosting an Al Music special on Canada's MuchMusic, Al runs around downtown Toronto pestering random people on the street.
    Al: What is the capital of Canada?
    Man getting into car: Ottawa.
    Al: No, no, it's C! And all the other letters are lower case! You lose. Get outta here. [turns to camera] What a jerk.

Behind the Music

  • The opening to his episode:
    "I've never slept with a band member. I've never crippled a band member. I've never stayed in my boat for three days on a heroin binge. I've never had to deal with weight problems. I've never slept with so many women I lost count. I never lip sync to my songs, except in music videos. I never was an alcoholic, I never was a poster child for marijuana smoking, and I never married my 13 year old cousin, SO WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME?!"
  • "Coming up: Weird Al copes with failure."
    Al: (sobbing) And then my seventh album only went gold instead of platinum! I had to get the medium-sized Jacuzzi! (suddenly calm again) Will that work for you?
  • Emo Philips shows off one of his royalty checks for appearing in UHF. For thirty cents. "It's the gift that keeps on giving."
    • Speaking of, behold: His first line:
      Emo: (with the caption "Emo Philips: Friend" on screen) You know how you pee in the toilet and it sounds like someone commanding you to kill Weird Al Yankovic?
  • Mark Mothersbaugh's completely deadpan Amadeus moment about "Dare to be Stupid":
    Al: And I played the tape for Mark Mothersbaugh back when it came out, and he seemed to really enjoy it. He said, "Wow, that's a really cool synth sound, I wish we could get that!"
    Mark: I was in shock. It was the most beautiful thing I'd ever heard.
    Al: And he was—he seemed to enjoy it. He could have been lying, but I dunno.
    Mark: He sort of resculpted that song into something else, and, um... (shrugs) I hate him for it, basically.

Live Shows

  • In live performances, each member of the band gets a chance to show off their skills at one point, except bassist Steve Jay, who will just play one note.
    • Guitarist Jim West will also sometimes screw up the last note playing something like "Mary Had a Little Lamb", and drummer Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz's "drum solo" will usually consist of him hitting his snare drum once.
    • Keyboardist Ruben Valtierra, being the group's Butt-Monkey, doesn't really get a chance to show off his keyboard skills, but that doesn't stop him from trying. Usually he'll play a rather grandiose piano solo, which is what he does during Al's lead-in story before the song "One More Minute" in "Weird Al" Yankovic Live!. Al stops and turns to Ruben, who sees him and ceases his piano playing, then Al goes back to his story... and Ruben busts out a catchy Mexican salsa piano beat, interrupting Al's story again. To finally get Ruben to stop, Al eventually grabs a gun from the stage and shoots him.
  • During the "Hooooo!" instrumental break in "Fat", Santa Claus suddenly bounds onto the stage shouting "Ho-ho-ho!" and Al just as promptly beats him up.
  • Anytime they play the "Jurassic Park" video during his concerts, whenever they show the scene where Barney the Dinosaur gets his head bitten off by a dinosaur, expect the audience to cheer in delight.
  • Before the huge fan-favorite "Albuquerque" was actually added to the set list, Al would often tease the audience with references to the song and hints that his band would play it. During one such performance:
    Al: So... anyone here tonight from Albuquerque? (audience cheers) Well, we've got just the song for you! (audience cheers even louder) It's called "One More Minute"!
  • "Wanna B Ur Lovr", while already hilarious as a song, becomes something else when performed live. Donning on a gaudy Leisure Suit, Al leaves the stage and serenades individual audience members with the pick-up lines in the song. Considering it's a relative deep cut of a song, some will be completely caught off-guard with their compliments, while others are just swoon to share a bizarrely intimate moment with Al, all leading to the biggest belly laughs of the night for any concert it shows up in. As one audience member once put it, their life was complete when Al stared lovingly into their eyes while saying "Your eyes are even bluer than the water in my toilet".
  • Al started at least one live show thusly:
    "ARE YOU READY TO ROCK?!"
    (audience cheers)
    (facepalming) "I was afraid of that."
    • He says this before launching into the largely-acoustic ballad "You Don't Love Me Anymore" on the Alpocalypse Tour live DVD.
    • During the 1992 Off the Deep End Tour his response to the cheers was an apologetic "I'm sorry, we don't do that anymore...We're gonna 'Polka Your Eyes Out'!" Cue the medley.
  • The mere fact that he named one of his tours (which focuses on his original songs and other non-parodies) "The Ridiculously Self-Indulgent, Ill-Advised Vanity Tour."
    • Every night on the tour, he played a (mostly) straight cover song. The show in Medicine Hat, Alberta, had him duet "Summer Nights" with "Reluctant Audience Member." On Weird Al's video with snippets, while Al's singing the song straight, you can hear his poor partner admit "I've only watched Grease once" in place of one of the lines.
    • In Toronto, he played "Wipeout" by The Surfaris... which each band member playing in a different key.
    • His Columbia, MO performance featured "Take The Money And Run" by the Steve Miller Band... until he abandoned it before the chorus due to his disgust with the Painful Rhymes and switched to another song.

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