"Weird Al" Yankovic

The foremost song parodist of his generation, "Weird Al" Yankovic has carried the torch of musical humor more proudly and more successfully than any performer since Allan Sherman, and while Sherman's recording career spanned six years, Yankovic's was still going strong nearly four decades after his debut. In the world of novelty records -- a genre noted for its extensive back catalog of flashes in the pan and one-hit wonders -- Yankovic is king, scoring smash after smash over the course of an enduring career that has found him topically mocking everything from new wave ("Dare to Be Stupid," a letter-perfect "style parody" of Devo on 1985's Dare to Be Stupid) and Michael Jackson (his commercial breakthrough, "Eat It," on 1984's In 3-D) to grunge ("Smells Like Nirvana" from 1992's Off the Deep End) and gangsta rap (his goof on Chamillionaire's "Ridin'" and "White and Nerdy" on 2006's Straight Outta Lynwood). He even received the ultimate show biz accolade, a wildly inaccurate biopic: 2022's Weird: The Al Yankovic Story.

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