Every time he gets mentioned on this forum, everyone who knows his stuff raves about his polkas. That's all I know.

His polkas are BRILLIANT!


Seriously, I'm very fond of his parodies, especially the early ones (I Think I'm A Clone Now, (This Song Is) Six Words Long, etc) but his recent album and his 'original' songs are pretty awful. His videos are very good, he's obviously been inspired by Airplane, Top Secret and the like. The video for Smells Like Nirvana is much better than the song itself.
There are a couple of R1 DVDs worth seeking out if you're a fan, 'WAY: The Videos' and 'WAY Live'.

His site is very annoying though.
http://www.weirdal.com

Bohemian Polka takes some beating...

>Bohemian Polka takes some beating...

Polka Your Eye Out (1992) manages to feature Unbelievable (EMF), Losing My Religion (REM), Ice Ice Baby (Vanilla Ice) and Enter Sandman (Metallica), plus about 10 other hits. It is awesome.

he did a very funny Red Hot Chili Peppers parody on the soundtrack to 'The Flintstones' movie - possibly the only funny thing about this god-forsaken project.

'What I got I got a woman named Wilma,
What I got I got a baby named Pebbles,
What I got I got a doggy named Dino,
We do a little work and we drink a little vino...'

There is a site out there with a searchable database of lyrics. I'll have a look.

Found it. It's at
http://www.yankovic.org/

It used to be more complicated than that...

ah yes the good old days of typing seven words and coming up with 4823585735 approx. sites with 0.33333333 recuring being about born and 0.213523543 about a man named fred from broxbourne.
RE: WAY- whowhatwherewhenhow?

>ah yes the good old days of typing seven words and coming up with 4823585735 approx. sites with 0.33333333 recuring being about born and 0.213523543 about a man named fred from broxbourne.

I don't know, I always kind of liked that about search endings. The fact that Alta Vista in particular seemed to be prone to throwing up at least one pornographic site in the first ten choices, no matter how innocent your search was � search for "tea" and option no. 3 would come up as "Fuckmonkey Drillhall" or "Anal Bavaria". (Surprisingly the latter is the name of an actual porn film, and not, as it may sound, an extremely specialist guidebook. But I digress.)

The other charming search engine characteristic is the fact that, no matter how obscure or bizarre your search, it almost always turns out to be the name of some piddly American town that really, really wants you to come visit. "WELCOME to the Tourist Information site for Dog's Cock Puppet Theatre, Louisiana! We have many local facilities for you to enjoy..." "You'll love to visit Post-Mortem Bloopers, Alabama..."

But yes, I have to agree about Fred from Broxbourne. And you know what Fred's site says? Along with about 8 million other bastard sites, it says:

"hi, you made it to my website, you are visiter no. xxxxx, i havnt got round to doing any more of the site yet but heres a picture of my dog [ ] and heres a picture of me [ ] and heres a picture of me and my dog [ ] and ill be putting up a list of all the really cool books ive been reading when ive got the time, gotta go now byeeee!!"

>ah yes the good old days of typing seven words and coming up with 4823585735 approx. sites with 0.33333333 recuring being about born and 0.213523543 about a man named fred from broxbourne.

I don't know, I always kind of liked that about search endings. The fact that Alta Vista in particular seemed to be prone to throwing up at least one pornographic site in the first ten choices, no matter how innocent your search was � search for "tea" and option no. 3 would come up as "Fuckmonkey Drillhall" or "Anal Bavaria". (Surprisingly the latter is the name of an actual porn film, and not, as it may sound, an extremely specialist guidebook. But I digress.)

The other charming search engine characteristic is the fact that, no matter how obscure or bizarre your search, it almost always turns out to be the name of some piddly American town that really, really wants you to come visit. "WELCOME to the Tourist Information site for Dog's Cock Puppet Theatre, Louisiana! We have many local facilities for you to enjoy..." "You'll love to visit Post-Mortem Bloopers, Alabama..."

But yes, I have to agree about Fred from Broxbourne. And you know what Fred's site says? Along with about 8 million other bastard sites, it says:

"hi, you made it to my website, you are visiter no. xxxxx, i havnt got round to doing any more of the site yet but heres a picture of my dog [ ] and heres a picture of me [ ] and heres a picture of me and my dog [ ] and ill be putting up a list of all the really cool books ive been reading when ive got the time, gotta go now byeeee!!"

Ah, *that's* how you accidentally post things twice. I always wondered.

"Search endings"?

Yes, yes, all right. It was a spelling error. But you know perfectly well what I moan.

In the days when I couldn't remember the correct address, I used to have to search for Lee & Herring's site. It would also turn up some US law firm based around 2 partners: Mr Lee and Mr Herring. True.

Also, there used to be an anti-L&H site called "Lee and Herring Time" run by born-again Christians. It featured an animation of our heroes' heads vanishing into the flames of Hell. More ridiculously, it claimed that TMWRNJ was "better than the woeful 'Fist Of Fun'". Basically, the author was angry about the 'Sunday heroes' sketches, but the site was just one page that was linked to a pre-established site for the Bible Christianity movement (code: hates Catholics).

I once went into the BC site. It was arranged into question-and answer sections, and it had one that said "When will the world end?" On that page the author's style dropped the certainty that pervaded the rest of the site and admitted that that was something the Bible didn't say "but that means it could happen anytime!" The other pages were mostly just ignorant Creationist drivellings.

I wish there would be a new series of TMWRNJ, so that 'Lee&Herring Time' can get revived and have an update.

Or perhaps the Hell animation will turn up in a sketch on 'Live & Kicking'?

Back to Weird Al. Has anyone heard his version of 'The Phantom Menace' to the tune of 'American Pie'?

"My, my, this here Anakin guy,
Maybe Vader someday later but for now he's small fry.
He left his home kissed mother goodbye,
Singing 'Soon I'm gonna be a Jedi'"

Sheer poetry.

Go to http://www.scour.com and type in "The Saga Begins" for the full glory. He's even cut off his perm.

He hasn't cut it off, he's tucked it into a wig.

http://www.sagabegins.com/

The big cheat.