Awesome Weird Al

Fans of “Weird Al” Yankovic will be excited to hear snippets of the 23 tracks on the bonus 15th album that comes with Squeeze Box. It’s packed with obscure and previously unreleased tunes from the master of novelty music. That Prodigy parody from ALtv is priceless.

As part of his extensive Squeeze Box retrospective, “Weird Al” Yankovic dusted off this previously unreleased 1982 parody of the Beatles’ song Taxman, replacing its subject with one more appropriate to the time – at the height of Pac-Man Fever. Wakka-wakka-wakka.

The ultimate collection for fans of the ultimate parody songwriter. Get all 14 of “Weird Al” Yankovic’s studio albumns on CD or Vinyl, packed inside of an accordion case along with a 100-page collector’s book. Upgraded sets include lots of extra goodies.

xkcd already summed it up best, but The Kicker does a pretty good job of generalizing what goes on in post-game press cons, with help from Weird Al. Seriously though, these things are worthless. Everyone already knows what everyone else is going to say.

Earlier this year, “Weird Al” Yankovic won a Grammy Award for best comedy album. Here, he unboxes his shiny prize, which showed up several months later on his doorstep. We’ll be keeping an eye on eBay for when Al starts selling duplicates.

SNL’s Vanessa Bayer borrows a page from the Zach Galifianakis and Chris Farley school of conversation as her character Janessa Slater sits down to discuss some ideas to help the careers of already successful musicians.

Nah, this isn’t a parody of a The Orb song. It’s just a simple magic trick that Weird Al Yankovic recently learned. You can pull it off too. All you need is a shirt and a trip to the kitchen.

Weird Al channels The Pixies in his latest clip, an angry rant about all of the idiotic things people complain about while important things are actually going on around them. Our first world problem? Not being able to embed the video.

And the hits keep on coming from Weird Al this week. His latest track parodies Iggy Azalea’s catchy hit track Fancy, replacing swagger, Cristal and life in the fast lane with hammers, screwdrivers and wrenches.

Another day, another Weird Al video. For the second of his 8 videos in 8 days, he takes on the horrific state of English grammar, largely brought on by the Internet and text messaging – courtesy of Robin Thicke’s 2013 mega hit Blurred Lines.

We are so pleased to share Weird Al’s parody of Pharrell’s Happy from Nerdist, featuring Aisha Tyler, Kristen Schaal and Jack Black, among others. It kicks off his 8 videos in 8 days project. We have missed you, Al. (Thanks Chris!)

Weird Al’s anthem for people who are saddled with human spam. Share the song to them for a not-so-subtle hint. Of course they might think the song sucks and hate you for forwarding crap to them.

Weird Al plays the lead musician on a sinking ship in this video from College Humor; the medley of songs he delivers when the captain requests him to play on is definitely not what anyone is expecting.

Weird Al takes on B.o.B.’s “Nothin’ On You“, with his latest track, “Another Tattoo”. Hey, why didn’t we think about tattooing our grocery list on our wrist before now?

Weird Al takes on Lady Gaga in his latest parody video. Funny thing is, he doesn’t look any more outrageous than Gaga herself. We’re pretty sure that’s not Al’s body, but we could be wrong.

Weird Al’s latest single, a spoof of Lady Gaga’s Born This Way, was not initially approved, but it’s a go now – good thing, since any song immortalized by Weird Al is classic. (Thanks Daniel!)

Back in 1985, Weird Al Yankovic left a series of messages on his drummer’s answering machine. He recently dug up the tape. We can’t believe he never recorded “I Want a New Dog.”

We didn’t realize how much we missed UHF until we saw this brilliant trailer for Weird: The Al Yankovic Story; no, it’s not a real movie, but we sure wish it was. Thanks, everyone!