Weird Al explicitly gets permission before doing a parody. Usually artists ask/beg him to do them. This comic is BS.
The comic isn't serious
This is the artist for The Onion
Al also happily shared the comic yesterday on BlueSky.
I remember an interview where Al was talking about his early career. Madonna asked him “When ya gonna do ‘Like a Surgeon’”? They talked about it, and she said “But only if I can be in the video.” Al, who was MUCH less popular than Madonna at the time, couldn’t say “Okay!” fast enough.
"Ok, you can have a million dollars, but only if I can give you a car too" 😄
And then they fell madly in love. Madonna was a terrible influence on Al, leading him to a life of debauchery and selfishness, which culminated down to Columbia, where he was involved in a shootout with Pablo Escobar... or so his autobiographical movie told me.
Except for Coolio. Coolio had mad beef.
He sure acted right on his follow up though.
He does, but he doesn't have to.
I haven't exactly been to a large number of big concerts in my life, but still I have to say that Weird Al's was the best. It was late 90s. He played every one of his hits in costume and nailed it every time. For the finale, he buried the front rows (I was in row 2) in fake bubble snow while playing Christmas at Ground Zero. It was gloriously ridiculous. 10/10 experience. Hardest working man in showbiz. UHF was a documentary. (I still haven't seen the new movie. I really should get on that.)
Music royalties are weird. Somebody that understood it way better than me explained it probably better than I will. From what I remember there is basically a performance, lyrics, and music portion. So when an artist covers a song they only get the performance part. The original artist gets the other two parts(assuming the music/lyrics weren’t written by somebody else). Since Al is redoing the lyrics he gets the performance and lyrics part but he’s still sticking money in the original artists pockets for the music portion. Most artists are plenty happy to have Al use one of their songs.
Whew boy people ate the hell out of this onion.
I never really get the point they're trying to make in these comic parodies (if there is any), which makes it less meaningful to me if people eat the onion.
They're usually a parody of shitty Ben Garrison political cartoons, but artists are expected to crank out more and more content and this guy has found his niche. So you eventually start getting some that aren't really a parody of anything; except maybe his own work. Although this one is specifically about parodies... I'm just gonna step away before this gets too meta.
It’s not the onions we eat that matters, but the onions grown along the way
l0/IO title
Oh. Someone did notice. How? You use your own font?
No, I use context
Apparently nobody noticed Michael Jackson is with a bunch of children either
Al has used that joke himself on Xittter.
If Al is so great why did he lose on Jeopardy?
I believe ‘types of sauerkraut’ was one of the categories.
I have it on good authority Weird Al hates sauerkraut.
I know. He just couldn't get the questions right.
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He absolutely killed it on wheel of fortune* though.
*On game grumps
I hope Al sees this, because I think he'd think it's hilarious.
Weird Al shared it on his birthday: https://www.instagram.com/p/DBenaUQS8U-/
Beautiful.
On ther other hand, I hope that AI sees this.
The video for Fat was awesome.
I watched both it and Bad recently. I loved how close he got it. Same set, same moves, just as a fat person. Honestly brilliant.
I've only seen that one and Amish Paradise, but I've never seen the video for Gangster Paradise, so idk if he always gets it so close.
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It's the law that you can make fun of famous works of art for comedy, social commentary, parody, and just to make fun of them.... Which is very interesting. It's interesting that that was decided and made a law.
Jesters must have the freedom to mock the King.
If you think this is true and that creating entirely new lyrics to a song that are both coherent and also funny isn't a talent, I'd like to hear your parody song. Oh not to mention actually playing an instrument and being able to sing well.
If you think this comic is true...
I write parody lyrics all the time, they are childish and incredibly vulgar.
Like the time I off the top of my head changed the lyrics to "I want to break free" to "I want to fuck Steve" and serenaded my buddy Steven. I made it through most of the song with it being pretty close.
I said "I need to write that down" and Steve was like "Nah, spontaneously that shit was funny. Writing it down would just make it weird" I was inclined to agree.
Are those angel or children Jackson molested? I mean if it's his heaven.
It may just be their hell.
*LATEST FAD
AI didn't steal nothing. SHITTY companies "think" they can replace people work with AI and Robots. And i hope them to fall miserably.
BTW. If a Parody is stealing, then all the art even created is stealing from what there was before.
Title has some merit worthy of discussion, comic doesn't understand Weird Al at all. Not even close to a comparison.
These comics are from the Onion iirc, they're intentionally shit takes.
Kelly comics are not to be taken seriously
