Weird Al Yankovic

2022 - 8 - 29

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Daniel Radcliffe and Evan Rachel Wood Make Out as Weird Al and ... (Variety)

"Weird: The Al Yankovic Story" starring Danielle Radcliffe is set to premiere on the Roku Channel on Nov. 4. Watch the trailer.

Along with producing such hits as “White & Nerdy” and “Another One Rides the Bus,” the comedian-singer’s 2014 release “Mandatory Fun” earned him his first No. In addition to “Harry Potter” star Radcliffe as Yankovic, the film also features Evan Rachel Wood as Madonna; Quinta Brunson as Oprah Winfrey; Rainn Wilson as broadcaster Dr. 4, but it will screen a bit earlier as the opening film of the Toronto International Film Festival’s Midnight Madness programming series on Sept.

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Weird: The Al Yankovic Story trailer is a perfect parody of music ... (Polygon)

The latest trailer for The Roku Channel's Weird Al Yankovic movie parodies musical biopics in all the right ways. The movie stars Daniel Radcliffe and is ...

Weird is directed by Eric Appel (Silicon Valley) and written by Appel and Al Yankovic himself. Weird: The Al Yankovic Story will star Daniel Radcliffe as [Weird Al](https://www.polygon.com/tv/2020/5/14/21258509/eat-it-charity-video-weird-al-bryan-cranston-david-cross-bob-odenkirk-sarah-silverman-jack-black) himself and and tell the not-so-true story of Al’s famous life. [parody artist’s parody biopic](https://www.polygon.com/23055558/weird-al-movie-daniel-radcliffe-trailer-release-date-roku).

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'Weird Al' Makes Out With Madonna, Hits the Bottle in Wild 'Weird ... (Rolling Stone)

The new film — starring Daniel Radcliffe and Evan Rachel Wood — puts a clever overwrought biopic spin on the parody king's life story. By Jon Blistein ...

based on a script Appel and Yankovic co-wrote. But of course, no music biopic would be complete without a redemption arc — and you better believe Weird has got one of those, too. [Weird: The Al Yankovic Story](https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/watch-daniel-radcliffe-weird-al-teaser-1346987/).

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Daniel Radcliffe Gets Savage as 'Weird Al' Yankovic in New Movie ... (Newsweek)

The Boy Who Lived is now officially the Boy Who Became a Worldwide Superstar by Playing Polka-Inflected Parodies of Hit Songs. In the just-released trailer ...

He's set to appear opposite Jonathan Groff and Lindsay Mendez in New York Theater Workshop's production of Stephen Sondheim's musical Merrily We Roll Along in November. Demento tells him—and even smugly putting out his lit cigarette in the palm of a cameo-ing Will Forte. The film also stars Evan Rachel Wood as He won his first Grammy for 1984's "Eat It." He keeps getting caught at polka parties, you see, and his parents simply won't stand for that sort of rebellion. It's slated to open the Toronto International Film Festival's Midnight Madness series on September 8.

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'Weird: The Al Yankovic Story': A new official trailer shows Daniel ... (CNN)

Daniel Radcliffe is getting weird in Monday's new official trailer for the upcoming "Weird Al" Yankovic biopic. In addition to Radcliffe as "Weird Al," the ...

and will premiere in September at the Toronto International Film Festival. From there, the trailer takes off -- chronicling the bizarre rise of Weird Al, including a hook-up scene with Madonna (played by Evan Rachel Wood). Radcliffe -- with his curly brown mop of hair, wire-rim glasses and bushy mustache -- is almost unrecognizable.

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Daniel Radcliffe and Evan Rachel Wood Channel Weird Al and ... (GQ Magazine)

From Freddie Mercury to James Brown to Madonna herself, many of the artists that “Weird” Al Yankovic has parodied have either received the biopic treatment, ...

Demento (who, like in the movie, really did give Yankovic his first airplay); and Evan Rachel Wood as Madonna, who, unlike in the movie really didn’t seduce Al and drag him to the dark side. That trailer was more of an explicit parody of rise-and-fall dramatic music biopics, while the new promo for the new full-length movie shows a slick, slyer take. So it’s only fitting that the musical madman himself is finally getting his own origin story in Weird, a movie about Al’s rise to mainstream ubiquity—one that turns out to be a parody of biopics themselves.

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'Weird Al' Yankovic Bringing Latest Tour to Greeley's UCCC (Retro 102.5)

Weird Al Yankovic show at Union Colony Civic Center in Greeley on Friday, September 9, 2022.

The man is a legend in his own time: He is one of only five artists with Top 40 singles in each of the last four decades, the other four being Michael Jackson, Madonna, U2, and Kenny G. "Weird Al' will be performing hilarious non-parody original material found on his 14 albums, with each performance having a different setlist. In the end, we'll find that 'Weird Al' isn't all that weird at all.

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