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Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic (/ ˈ j æ ŋ k ə v ɪ k / ⓘ YANG-kə-vik; [2] born October 23, 1959) is an American comedy musician, writer, and actor. He is best known for writing and performing comedy songs that often parody specific songs by contemporary musicians.
"Weird Al" Yankovic in 2003 "Weird Al" Yankovic is a multiple Grammy Award -winning American musician, satirist , parodist , accordionist , director , television producer, and author. He is known in particular for humorous songs which make fun of popular culture or parody specific songs by contemporary musical acts, or both.
"Pretty Fly for a Rabbi" (alternatively called "Pretty Fly (For a Rabbi)" in Australia) is a song by "Weird Al" Yankovic. It is a parody of "Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)" by The Offspring, and it was released from the 1999 album Running with Scissors. The song was released as a single exclusively in Australia. [2]
Is it time for "Weird Al" Yankovic to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?. Since the 65-year-old parody musician's career began in the 1970s, he's earned legitimate hits, won five ...
“Weird Al” Yankovic: I wanted to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of my last album by doing a medley of what I thought were a dozen of the biggest songs of the last 10 years. I just kind of ...
"Weird Al" Yankovic's song Pretty Fly for a Rabbi, a parody of Pretty Fly (For a White Guy), contains the line "The parents pay the mohel and he gets to keep the tip!" In the Rugrats Hanukkah episode, the characters walk through the town center of ancient Israel past a shop titled mohel advertising a "cut rate" [18]
Courtesy of RokuAs the story of Alfred “Weird Al” Yankovic goes, on one fateful day, while he was a child in the ’60s, a traveling salesman stopped at his house and offered to sell his ...
Yankovic is an Anglicized version of the South Slavic surname Janković (Јанковић), or perhaps the Polish surname Jankowicz, derived from the given name Janko. Its bearers can be of different South Slav origins. Notable people with the surname include: "Weird Al" Yankovic (born 1959), American parodist