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In fact, Yankovic says he turned down "a nice pile of money" to do a commercial for an AI company ...

Yankovic backed out of an AI advertisement despite a huge paycheck after calling it weird. The musician later said he did not ...

"Weird Al" Yankovic brought his polka and parody tunes to Ameris Bank Amphitheatre in Alpharetta on May 31, 2026.

One might not expect Weird Al’s biopic to become an awards juggernaut, but that’s what happened. Maybe juggernaut is a stretch, but the film—which is itself a parody, which makes perfect sense, ...

I didn’t think I’d want to watch a fake biopic, especially not one about a real guy in whom I’m actually interested — which is what Weird: The Al Yankovic Story basically is, a parody biopic about a ...

Are you weird? According to Democrats—who have made “weird” a new term of art for Republicans—you’re weird if you get overexercised about the genitalia of Olympic athletes, think childless ...

You could, however, avoid all of these pitfalls by idolizing Weird Al Yankovic. I’ve waxed poetic often about Mr. Yankovic on ...