"Weird Al" Yankovic
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"Weird Al" Yankovic (born Alfred Matthew Yankovic on October 23, 1959) is a multi-Grammy-winning musician who has been in the business for over four decades. "Weird Al" is famous for his parodies of popular songs, as well as "style parodies" that emulate specific acts' musical styles.
Al has also directed music videos for various other musicians, including Ben Folds Five and Hanson. He has produced and starred in numerous specials on MTV and VH1, a cult-hit movie UHF, his own one-season Saturday morning TV series, The "Weird Al" Show, and his biographical parody Weird: The Al Yankovic Story.
"Weird Al" also has a long list of cartoon voice acting credits, appearing on such shows as Johnny Bravo, The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Robot Chicken, Adventure Time (as Banana Man), DC Nation (as the Riddler and Animal Man), My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (as Cheese Sandwich), the animated movie Batman vs. Robin (as Dollmaker) and the title character of Milo Murphy's Law.
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Musician
The Transformers: The Movie
Voice roles
Transformers Animated
Transformers: EarthSpark
Fiction
Dark of the Moon novel
When Sam Witwicky and Seymour Simmons went to a bar to find some ex-cosmonauts, Sam thought it looked like the sort of place James Bond would frequent. He was unimpressed with Simmons's approach, reflecting that Simmons was more "Weird Al" Yankovic than Daniel Craig. Dark of the Moon (novel)
IDW movie comics
"Weird Al"'s voice on the radio was used by Bumblebee when he, Arcee, and Sam Witwicky were under attack by Space Case. Transformers: Space Case
Convention appearances
Notes
- In an interview, Derrick J. Wyatt revealed that during Weird Al's recording session for Animated, regular voice actor Tom Kenny wasn't scheduled to show up, but came anyway just so he could introduce his son to Weird Al. Dawwwwww.
- In an "Ask Al" interview, Weird Al revealed at long last the riveting story behind how "Dare to be Stupid" wound up in the Transformers the Movie soundtrack.
- Thomas Stanford of Buffalo, NY asks: I'm a huge Transformers fan. I always found it interesting how "Dare to be Stupid" ended up in the middle of it. How did you manage that?
- Weird Al: The Transformers soundtrack came out on Scotti Bros., so oddly enough, there were a bunch of Scotti Bros. artists on there. I think I probably got a phone call saying, "Hey, we're gonna use one of your songs in this movie, if that's okay with you," and I probably said, "Sure, why not - hey, how did you get this number?"
- Fascinating.
- During his concerts, clips of his animated/live-action appearances are shown during costume changes. By the time of the Mandatory Fun tour, this included the scene from "Garbage In, Garbage Out" when Wreck-Gar proclaims "I dare to be stupid!", played right before the song of the same name.
