History Funny / WeirdAlYankovic

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

'''Weird Al:''' Ooookay. Well, uh... Welcome to AL TV, Jessica Sampson. And you can just call me "Wired Al Iankuwitz"!

* 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 [[UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheories 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.

* The video for "[[IncrediblyLamePun Polka]] [[Music/LadyGaga Face]]". It's the first music video for a polka medley, and ''boy'' does it show. Highlights include: the "baby" snippet, where a baby Music/JustinBieber is looking forward to get some breast milk (as a nod to his LikesOlderWomen status) [[TakeThat only to be given a pacifier instead]], the "I kissed a girl" part where Music/KatyPerry "hopes her boyfriend doesn't mind", [[GirlOnGirlIsHot with his response being a couple of thumbs-ups]], Music/LadyGaga being generally even crazier than usual, and Weird Al's own appearance as his own SuperDeformed avatar.

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

* "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 pulled a "pretty good gag" of his own by [[spoiler:leaving Larry to die bound and gagged in the middle of the woods]].

* The video for "[[IncrediblyLamePun Polka]] [[Music/LadyGaga Face]]". It's the first music video for a polka medley, and ''boy'' does it show. Highlights include: the "baby" snippet, where a baby Music/JustinBieber is looking forward to get some breast milk (as a nod to his LikesOlderWomen status) [[TakeThat only to be given a pacifier instead]], the "I kissed a girl" part where Music/KatyPerry "hopes her boyfriend doesn't mind", [[GirlOnGirlIsHot with his response being a couple of thumbs-ups]], Music/LadyGaga being generally even crazier than usual, and Weird Al's own appearance as his own SuperDeformed avatar. About that last one, we'd say UncannyValley if only he wasn't that funny. And awesome.

* A clever transition in "Hot Rocks Polka", Al's polka tribute to Music/TheRollingStones:

Getting close to the drive-thru!'\\

* Pretty much the entity of "A Complicated Song", but special mention goes to the final two choruses.

Your love life will run into trouble when your fiancé [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice hurls a javelin through your chest]]\\

* "Jerry Springer" has this bit of dialouge:

'''Woman:''' Oh? well, which one?\\

I just smiled at him and [[TurnTheOtherCheek turned the other cheek]],\\

--> 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!]]]]

* While hosting an ''Al Music'' special on Canada's MuchMusic, Al runs around downtown Toronto pestering random people on the street.

--> '''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.

* From the 1996 special (with the original/parody videos): 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.

** "The world was our burrito. So we got married and we bought us a house and had two beautiful children, [[AerithAndBob Nathaniel and]] ''Film/SuperFly''!

* [[https://uproxx.com/indie/weird-al-yankovic-kid-rock-dont-tell-me-how-to-live/ Weird Al denies writing Kid Rock song "Don't Tell Me How To Live".]]

!!Other ''Al TV''/''[=AlMusic=]'' moments

* Weird Al in Music/AlanisMorissette's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp3cJ8orTE0 "Ironic" video.]]

!!Other ''Al TV'' moments

[[TotallyRadical Like wow]], [[RefugeInAudacity I'm sorry, but we towed it away!]]\\\

It's time to kiss your little car goodbye"\\\

!!Songs and Videos

* "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.
** "[[ICantHearYou 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 [[StylisticSuck deliberately bad he made it.]]
* "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? [[IdTellYouButThenIdHaveToKillYou 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 [[SignedUpForTheDental "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 Music/LadyGaga.'' (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 Music/{{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 [[EyeScream poke your eye out]] with a dress like this" [[OffhandBackhand *slam*]] [[WilhelmScream ("Aaaaugh!!")]] "Back off and enjoy the show!"''
** There's a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo45pBJdcUM 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) [[TheComicallySerious 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.
* 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\\
[[OverlyLongGag Did I mention the drive-thru?]]''
** The fact that the original version is so [[{{Narm}} over-the-top]][[note]]For the uninformed, it involves a LoveDodecahedron, copious amounts of gun misuse, a midget, a stuttering pimp, and the mafia. It also goes on for an innumerable amount of installments, literally ever single one of which ends with an AssPull. It's one of [[SoBadItsGood those works]].[[/note]] that the only way Al could made it funny was to have the lyrics be as banal as possible.
** And of course, the ending -- [[BrickJoke they wound up forgetting the onions]].
* The video for "[[IncrediblyLamePun Polka]] [[Music/LadyGaga Face]]". It's the first music video for a polka medley, and ''boy'' does it show. Highlights include: the "baby" snippet, where a baby Music/JustinBieber is looking forward to get some breast milk (as a nod to his LikesOlderWomen status) [[TakeThat only to be given a pacifier instead]], the "I kissed a girl" part where Music/KatyPerry "hopes her boyfriend doesn't mind", [[GirlOnGirlIsHot with his response being a couple of thumbs-ups]], Music/LadyGaga being generally even crazier than usual, and Weird Al's own appearance as his own SuperDeformed avatar. About that last one, we'd say UncannyValley if only he wasn't that funny. And awesome.
** The Womanizer. Dear God, the Womanizer.
** It's essentially a professional Website/{{Newgrounds}} video.
* "Good Enough For Now," from ''Polka Party,'' is three minutes of the most backhanded compliments ever put on wax.
* Just about every line of "Confessions Part III", but especially when he admits to dressing up like Creator/ShirleyTemple (or, in the live shows, Sarah Palin) and spanking himself with a hockey stick.
** [[https://youtu.be/yjhKIttvX34 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]]That-that thing was hideous, what were you ''thinking''?[[/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" from ''Straight Outta Lynwood'' 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 [[RefugeInAudacity yet so very hilarious]].[[note]]And worry not - [[NoAnimalsWereHarmed no actual weasels were harmed in the making of the song]]. The sound effects were provided by smashing fresh fruits and veggies. Along with his wife, baby, and pet parrot, according to the Making Of DVD.[[/note]]

* [[AntiLoveSong "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?''
* Pretty much the entity 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?\\
[[{{Understatement}} 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.''

* It wasn't enough for Al to do pitch-perfect Music/TalkingHeads style parody in "Dog Eat Dog"... he dons a gigantic blazer a la David Byrne in "Stop Making Sense" to perform it.

* "Stop Draggin' My Car Around", because only Weird Al can make a song about your car being impounded hilarious.
-->''[[FelonyMisdemeanor But, man, that car of yours is so uncool]]\\
[[TotallyRadical Like wow]], [[RefugeInAudacity I'm sorry, but we towed it away!]]\\\
Look out the window, there's tow truck in the driveway\\
I grabbed the driver and I asked him why\\
He said, "I'm sorry kid, you're late with the payments\\
It's time to kiss your little car goodbye"\\\
[[WorryingForTheWrongReason Hey! Hey! I left a sandwich in the backseat!]]''
* A clever transition in "Hot Rocks Polka", Al's polka tribute to Music/TheRollingStones:
-->''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")''

* Weird Al's take on ''Gangnam Style'' with "HEEEEEYYYY SEXY LAAAADDDY" a la Creator/JerryLewis.

* "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!"
* "Good Old Days" has this [[CrossesTheLineTwice disturbing, yet hilarious]] verse about a grocery store owner:
-->''Always treated me nice, gave me kindly advice\\
I don't know why I [[MoodWhiplash set fire to his place]]\\
Oh, I'll never forget the day I [[RefugeInAudacity bashed in his head]]\\
Well, you should've seen [[OhCrap the look on his face]]''
* "Jerry Springer" has this bit of dialouge:
-->'''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!
* "Hardware Store"'s infamous MotorMouth list includes many things one would expect to find at a typical hardware store...with [[BreadEggsMilkSquick "automatic circumcisers"]] slipped into the middle of it.
* The fact that Weird Al managed to turn Charles Nelson Reilly, a goofy CampGay comedian famous for being on ''Series/MatchGame'', into a MemeticBadass who would put Chuck Norris Facts to shame.
* "Germs". A parody of Music/NineInchNails' style, it's pure hilarity from how Al's exuberant singing style just clashes yet at the same time works so well against a [[IndustrialMetal genre/style]] much DarkerAndEdgier than is usual for him. And that's not even getting to [[TerrifiedOfGerms the lyrics]]...
* "Since You've Been Gone" starts out as a pretty normal (for Weird Al) song, with a man who's recently lost a loved one singing about how much worse it feels than all kinds of AmusingInjuries. But let's just say TheEndingChangesEverything...
--> 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!]]]]
* HilariousInHindsight: "Jurassic Park" condenses all of the miserable experiences of [[Film/JurassicPark 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 [[Creator/JeffGoldblum Dr. Ian Malcolm's]] ImageSong. Guess which character's become the most popular human in the franchise?
* "Don't Download This Song" is a lighthearted TakeThat toward the whole "DigitalPiracyIsEvil" mindset, with Al mentioning [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope 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''
** Al then gets a little too real when he offhandedly describes [[OnlyInItForTheMoney why certain recording artists would be so dead-set against digital piracy anyway]]:
-->''Don't take away money\\
From artists just like me\\
[[FirstWorldProblems How else can I afford]] [[ConspicuousConsumption another solid gold Humvee?\\
And diamond-studded swimming pools]]\\
These things don't grow on trees!''
** During the fade, Al shouts "[[PrecisionFStrike You cheap bastard]]!"
* The stanza introducing [[Franchise/SpiderMan Norman Osborn]] in "[[Film/SpiderMan1 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''
* The account given in "The Saga Begins" of [[Film/ThePhantomMenace 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"''
* All the frivolous lawsuits in "I'll Sue Ya", especially the last ones in the two verses.
** Suing Delta Airlines because Al's trip to [[PlaceWorseThanDeath New Jersey]] sucked.
** He sued Ben Affleck, but there's a space where he gives the explanation. Then, he says, "[[TakeThat Aw, do I even need a reason]]!?"
* In the music video for "I Love Rocky Road", both times Al says "Ow!" The first time it's because of an ice cream-induced brain-freeze. The second time, after a kid bites his leg.
* The voice-overs provided by Creator/TomKenny 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!''

* Wanna B Ur Lovr. Just... yeah.