Weird: The Al Yankovic Story(2022)11 Available ...
\"Weird Al\" Yankovic cemented himself in pop culture after his comedic debut in the late '70s. The multitalented comedian is known for his creative parodies of popular songs such as Madonna's \"Like a Virgin\" and Coolio's \"Gangsta Paradise.\" Yankovic has earned numerous awards and accolades over the course of his career, including five Grammy Awards for best comedy album and best concept music video. Several of the comedian's albums are also certified platinum and gold. With such an esteemed legacy, it only makes sense that Yankovic is finally getting the biopic treatment.\n\"Weird: The Al Yankovic Story\" starring Daniel Radcliffe, coming to The Roku Channel, is an \"unexaggerated true story\" that traces the comedian and musician's career. It also stars Evan Rachel Wood as pop icon Madonna and \"Abbott Elementary\" star and creator Quinta Brunson as the incomparable Oprah Winfrey.\nThe film, which parodies traditional music biopics, starts streaming on Nov. 4. 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At the time, he was not only influenced by the many sounds of rock and roll in the 1970s, but he was also intrigued by different forms of comedy, whether it be the acclaimed classic Monty Python or albums by comedian George Carlin, according to The New York Times. During this time, he started writing his own comedy songs, which were accompanied by instruments like the accordion. Eager to break through to the world that inspired him so much, he sent his songs to radio host Dr. Demento, known for his unique taste in music and comedy, as reported by NPR. Demento gave Yankovic a chance and played his songs on the radio, leading the bright-eyed teenager to go to college and try to follow his dreams along the way.\nYankovic worked his way through small comedy gigs and started seriously working as a musical comedian in 1980 following the success of his song \"Another One Rides the Bus,\" a parody of the popular song \"Another One Bites the Dust\" by Queen. 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Her success as host of Chicago morning talk show \"AM Chicago\" eventually led to its rebranding and expansion into \"The Oprah Winfrey Show,\" which broadcasted for the first time, nationwide in Sept. 1986. \nWinfrey's show \u2014 on which she frequently interviewed and profiled celebrities \u2014 ran until 2011, concluding shortly after the launch of her own television network, OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network.\n","id":48890358,"type":"image","photo_source":"Image Source: Getty \/ Ron Galella","permalink":"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/entertainment\/photo-gallery\/48818928\/image\/48890358\/Oprah-Winfrey-in-Real-Life","canonical":"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/entertainment\/weird-al-yankovic-story-cast-side-by-side-real-people-48818928","share_text":"Oprah Winfrey in Real Life","use_tall_image":false,"omit_from_countdown":false,"caption_num":4,"slide_tags":"TVOprah WinfreyStreamingWeird: The Al Yankovic Story","embed_html":" View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Roku Channel (@therokuchannel)\n","embed_link":"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Cam-oAQJCgU\/","share_image":"https:\/\/media1.popsugar-assets.com\/files\/thumbor\/-U0Md-yMItGIYWZBUo4koZgtewk\/fit-in\/2048xorig\/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-\/2022\/05\/10\/860\/n\/46712211\/601c6ad2febe4bdd_275101947_534148064805132_2139678128334817327_n\/i\/p.jpg","title":"Evan Rachel Wood as Madonna in \"Weird: The Al Yankovic Story\"","intro_text":false,"body":"","id":48818932,"type":"text","photo_source":"","permalink":"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/entertainment\/photo-gallery\/48818928\/embed\/48818932\/p","canonical":"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/entertainment\/weird-al-yankovic-story-cast-side-by-side-real-people-48818928","share_text":"Evan Rachel Wood as Madonna in \"Weird: The Al Yankovic Story\"","use_tall_image":false,"omit_from_countdown":false,"caption_num":5,"slide_tags":"TVStreamingWeird: The Al Yankovic Story","image":"https:\/\/media1.popsugar-assets.com\/files\/thumbor\/pRsZ5ySJWJc7kbdZ1X4A4WuZZ1o\/fit-in\/1024x1024\/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-\/2022\/05\/10\/860\/n\/46712211\/e4168363635bb9f4_GettyImages-2231434\/i\/Madonna-in-Real-Life.jpg","share_image":"https:\/\/media1.popsugar-assets.com\/files\/thumbor\/fCub3SLlE5jEXXc4cJjY6-YBGVA\/fit-in\/2048xorig\/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-\/2022\/05\/10\/860\/n\/46712211\/e4168363635bb9f4_GettyImages-2231434\/i\/Madonna-in-Real-Life.jpg","title":"Madonna in Real Life","intro_text":false,"body":"Madonna was arguably one of the biggest artists of the 1980s, with songs like \"Material Girl\" and \"Like a Virgin\" dominating the charts at the time. 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At the time, Demento was a radio personality with his own show, \"The Dr. Demento Show,\" which often featured obscure comedy recordings, unique music, and just about everything weird. In a 2010 interview with NPR, the host talked about his relationship with Yankovic, saying, \"I think without The Dr. Demento Show, the probability is high that Alfred Yankovic would be a professional architect today.\" Yankovic studied architecture while attending California Polytechnic State University.\nDemento and Yankovic collaborated often over the years, with Demento appearing in several of the comedian's music videos. \"The Dr. Demento Show\" officially went off the air in 2010, but the radio personality still hosts the show, which is available to stream online. \n","id":48818937,"type":"image","photo_source":"Image Source: Getty \/ \tMichael Ochs Archives","permalink":"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/entertainment\/photo-gallery\/48818928\/image\/48818937\/Dr-Demento-in-Real-Life","canonical":"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/entertainment\/weird-al-yankovic-story-cast-side-by-side-real-people-48818928","share_text":"Dr. Demento in Real Life","use_tall_image":false,"omit_from_countdown":false,"caption_num":8,"slide_tags":"TVStreamingWeird: The Al Yankovic Story","image":"https:\/\/media1.popsugar-assets.com\/files\/thumbor\/5sW8kBkcpJn0IiMM9ipCpWqKby0\/fit-in\/1024x1024\/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-\/2022\/05\/10\/860\/n\/46712211\/612dbe49af697ba2_GettyImages-1134689770\/i\/Toby-Russ-as-Nick-Yankovic-in-Weird-Al-Yankovic-Story.jpg","share_image":"https:\/\/media1.popsugar-assets.com\/files\/thumbor\/hsD94eGCsThEpQltgdpCNJLexIQ\/fit-in\/2048xorig\/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-\/2022\/05\/10\/860\/n\/46712211\/612dbe49af697ba2_GettyImages-1134689770\/i\/Toby-Russ-as-Nick-Yankovic-in-Weird-Al-Yankovic-Story.jpg","title":"Toby Russ as Nick Yankovic in \"Weird: The Al Yankovic Story\"","intro_text":false,"body":"","id":48818935,"type":"image","photo_source":"Image Source: Getty \/ \tMichael Loccisano","permalink":"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/entertainment\/photo-gallery\/48818928\/image\/48818935\/Toby-Russ-as-Nick-Yankovic-in-Weird-Al-Yankovic-Story","canonical":"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/entertainment\/weird-al-yankovic-story-cast-side-by-side-real-people-48818928","share_text":"Toby Russ as Nick Yankovic in \"Weird: The Al Yankovic Story\"","use_tall_image":false,"omit_from_countdown":false,"caption_num":9,"slide_tags":"TVStreamingWeird: The Al Yankovic Story","image":"https:\/\/media1.popsugar-assets.com\/files\/thumbor\/DShxun_8nQyKRCBdJGY0U-x8J-U\/fit-in\/1024x1024\/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-\/2022\/05\/13\/938\/n\/1922283\/3d6436e5627ece210ef003.02397169_dad\/i\/Nick-Yankovic-in-Real-Life.JPG","share_image":"https:\/\/media1.popsugar-assets.com\/files\/thumbor\/6QQWziLxTkRnDe0eCfZVRy6JdcM\/fit-in\/2048xorig\/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-\/2022\/05\/13\/938\/n\/1922283\/3d6436e5627ece210ef003.02397169_dad\/i\/Nick-Yankovic-in-Real-Life.JPG","title":"Nick Yankovic in Real Life","intro_text":false,"body":"\"Weird Al\"'s father, Nick Yankovic, was a World War II veteran who earned two Purple Hearts for his service as a medic during the war, as reported by The New York Times. He was supportive of Yankovic during his comedy career and appeared in some of his music videos, including \"I Lost on Jeopardy\" and \"Amish Paradise.\" Nick Yankovic tragically passed away, along with his wife and Al's mother, Mary Yankovic, from carbon monoxide poisoning in their California home in 2004. The elderly couple, ages 86 and 81 at the time, lit a fire in their fireplace and died as a result of the chimney duct being closed, per The San Diego Union-Tribune.\n","id":48818931,"type":"image","photo_source":"Image Source: YouTube user BobbyTheDancingBoy","permalink":"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/entertainment\/photo-gallery\/48818928\/image\/48818931\/Nick-Yankovic-in-Real-Life","canonical":"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/entertainment\/weird-al-yankovic-story-cast-side-by-side-real-people-48818928","share_text":"Nick Yankovic in Real Life","use_tall_image":false,"omit_from_countdown":false,"caption_num":10,"slide_tags":"TVStreamingWeird: The Al Yankovic Story","image":"https:\/\/media1.popsugar-assets.com\/files\/thumbor\/-toqZoOAMt_xmAjcp1u5aNpkOzA\/fit-in\/1024x1024\/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-\/2022\/05\/10\/860\/n\/46712211\/8825e6f3b096ccb4_GettyImages-1385050797\/i\/Julianne-Nicholson-as-Mary-Yankovic-in-Weird-Al-Yankovic-Story.jpg","share_image":"https:\/\/media1.popsugar-assets.com\/files\/thumbor\/yaj8Tp7dgODWsX6w3U1CIzasVvg\/fit-in\/2048xorig\/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-\/2022\/05\/10\/860\/n\/46712211\/8825e6f3b096ccb4_GettyImages-1385050797\/i\/Julianne-Nicholson-as-Mary-Yankovic-in-Weird-Al-Yankovic-Story.jpg","title":"Julianne Nicholson as Mary Yankovic in \"Weird: The Al Yankovic Story\"","intro_text":false,"body":"","id":48818939,"type":"image","photo_source":"Image Source: Getty \/ \tSteve Granitz","permalink":"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/entertainment\/photo-gallery\/48818928\/image\/48818939\/Julianne-Nicholson-as-Mary-Yankovic-in-Weird-Al-Yankovic-Story","canonical":"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/entertainment\/weird-al-yankovic-story-cast-side-by-side-real-people-48818928","share_text":"Julianne Nicholson as Mary Yankovic in \"Weird: The Al Yankovic Story\"","use_tall_image":false,"omit_from_countdown":false,"caption_num":11,"slide_tags":"TVStreamingWeird: The Al Yankovic Story","image":"https:\/\/media1.popsugar-assets.com\/files\/thumbor\/dpV42lwHE1kg7Y4153kj_5CdsWo\/fit-in\/1024x1024\/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-\/2022\/05\/13\/938\/n\/1922283\/35ee365f627ece218c8ad5.34187806_mom\/i\/Mary-Yankovic-in-Real-Life.JPG","share_image":"https:\/\/media1.popsugar-assets.com\/files\/thumbor\/lgnbfKIzOdxLNuWiVV3lnRdMP9Q\/fit-in\/2048xorig\/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-\/2022\/05\/13\/938\/n\/1922283\/35ee365f627ece218c8ad5.34187806_mom\/i\/Mary-Yankovic-in-Real-Life.JPG","title":"Mary Yankovic in Real Life","intro_text":false,"body":"Mary Yankovic, \"Weird Al\"'s mother, was a quiet but loving figure to her only child. 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