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However, after Dr. Demento gives him guacamole laced with LSD, Al comes up with an original new song, which becomes his next hit, "Eat It". Madonna , in search of the "Yankovic bump", begins a relationship with Al to convince him to parody her song " Like a Virgin ", though he insists he now only writes original songs.
UHF (released internationally as The Vidiot from UHF) is a 1989 American comedy film starring "Weird Al" Yankovic, David Bowe, Fran Drescher, Victoria Jackson, Kevin McCarthy, Michael Richards, Stanley Brock, Gedde Watanabe, Billy Barty, Anthony Geary, Emo Philips and Trinidad Silva in his final film role; as Silva died before filming wrapped, the film is dedicated to his memory.
Barret Eugene Hansen (born April 2, 1941), [1] known professionally as Dr. Demento, is an American radio broadcaster and record collector specializing in novelty songs, comedy, and strange or unusual recordings dating from the early days of phonograph records to the present.
He is portrayed as a rival of Dr. Demento (played in the film by Rainn Wilson). From 1978 to 1980, an animatronic band called the Wolf Pack 5 appeared twice at the IAAPA and at the first Showbiz Pizza. The leader of the band was an anthropomorphic wolf who was modeled after Jack. He's voiced by Aaron Fechter. [citation needed]
"The Eggplant That Ate Chicago" is a song about alien invasion by Dr. West's Medicine Show and Junk Band. Its author, Norman Greenbaum, later wrote and performed "Spirit in the Sky" to greater chart success. [2] It was re released on Dr. Demento Presents: The Greatest Novelty Records of All Time, Volume III: The 1960s in 1985.
The music video was the directorial debut of Dror Soref and parodies the "I Love Rock 'n Roll" music video. Dr. Demento makes a cameo appearance in the video as a cashier.. The "ice cream" used in the video is actually mashed potatoes, since real ice cream would melt under stage lights.
The song topped the "Funny Five" on The Dr. Demento Show for several weeks and was the #1 request for 2006. [9] In 2009, the song was re-recorded with a full band, receiving inclusion on the compilation Almanac 2009 and Lemon Demon's first EP Live (Only Not) (2011). [10]
Livingston co-wrote and produced the group's novelty song "The Shakespeare Rap," which became a top 10 hit on the Dr. Demento radio show, and became the group's signature bit. During the non-touring time, Livingston took gigs acting for network TV and movies, including Unsolved Mysteries and Umberto Lenzi's Hitcher in the Dark.