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♪ (punk rock music) ♪
I love this song!
Fancy?
- ♪ First things first ♪-- - No! Just kidding.
- ♪ And I'm the greatest ♪-- - Weird Al. Oh my God.
Dude, I love him. He's so funny.
♪ I do tiles, I do stone, I do bricks ♪
♪ Call me, I'll come rushing over with my bag of tricks ♪
- ♪ When your front window is busted ♪ - (laughing)
♪ Just one thing that's always rusted ♪
♪ I'm so handy ♪
♪ You already know ♪
♪ I'll fix your plumbing ♪
- ♪ When your toilets overflow ♪ - Whoa!
- ♪ I'm so handy ♪-- - This is great.
♪ Now let me glue dat, glue dat ♪
♪ And screw dat, screw dat ♪
- ♪ Any random draw you got ♪-- - Can we replace Iggy Azalea with Weird Al?
♪ I'll just rewire your your house for fun ♪
♪ I got 99 problems, but a switch ain't one ♪
♪ I'm so handy ♪
I want him to fix my house.
- ♪...when your leaf blower, does it blow? ♪
(laughs) I've always wanted to do that.
I don't like this video.
I don't know who's back, actually, though.
I want to go with the lyrics, but I know the actual song,
not the nerdy.
I missed him.
I don't know he comes up with this stuff.
I loved it! Seriously, if he actually was a handy man,
I would have him come to my house.
♪ I never seem to finish all my food ♪
This one's good too.
♪ I always get a doggie bag ♪
Is that the same guy?
- ♪ And I take it home ♪-- - He's actually a really good singer.
♪ Save it for later ♪
♪ I never bother with baggies, glass jars ♪
- ♪ Tupperware containers ♪ - What the heck?
♪ I just like ♪
♪ To keep all my flavors sealed in tight ♪
♪ With aluminum foil (foil) ♪
I already watched one this five times!
Who makes this song about foil? Who dedicates a whole song to foil?
♪ Stick it in your cooler (cooler) ♪
- ♪ Eat it when you're ready ♪ - I don't even know, man. That's just funny.
♪ You'll choose, you'll choose, you'll choose ♪
I want to know what he's thinking when he's doing these songs.
♪ Oh, by the way I cracked the code ♪
Patton Oswalt!
♪ And the Illuminati know ♪
- ♪ That they're finally prime ♪-- - It's getting scary.
♪ For world domination ♪
I don't even know.
♪ Black helicopters, coming 'cross the border ♪
- ♪ Puppet masters for the New World Order ♪ - Okay, this took a huge turn.
♪ I'm protected cuz I made this hat ♪
- ♪ From aluminum foil ♪ - (laughs)
(singing) Foil!
I'm so happy that he's back!
- ♪ Someday I'll prove ♪-- - I'm so confused!
Eww!
♪ There's a big conspiracy ♪
Ew!
- A lizard. - That was weird.
- Okay. - That was so weird!
That was a little on the weird side.
I love it. I love it!
He's a god. He's a comedy god.
I was worried how he would blend in now that so many people are doing it,
'cause he started off as the only one.
But he's still stands out. He's Weird Al!
♪ (punk rock music) ♪
(Finebros) So, do you know who that parody artist was?
No.
I have no idea who he is.
That's Weird Al Yankovic or something?
Weird Al Yankovich!
Weird Al Yankovic.
(Finebros) He calls himself "Weird Al" Yankovic.
(laughs) What?
It fits the weird part.
He's a good kind of weird! He's like one of those weirds
that you just enjoy.
(Finebros) Why do you know Weird Al?
Oh, goodness. I've known him since I was a kid.
Weird Al is the OG of parody.
Back in middle school, he was so famous!
I used to watch his parody videos all the time and still do everyday.
I have four older brothers, so we would just listen to him 24-7.
He created my love for Rocky Road with I Love Rocky Road.
Weird Al was the first concert that I ever went to
when I was seven years old!
(Finebros) Do you have a favorite parody of Weird Al's?
The last song I heard from him was White and Nerdy.
I Lost on Jeopardy.
The odor one.
Amish Paradise.
Stuck in the Drive Thru.
Constipated? The Complicated parody that he did.
That's Avril Lavigne.
'Cause I'm Fat. (laughs) Michael Jackson remix.
(Finebros) Weird Al has been making parodies of popular songs
- for almost 40 years now. - What?!
40 years?
Dude, how old is he?
Wow! He's dedicated.
I didn't even know that was a thing until YouTube became really popular.
I thought all those weird stuff happened when the Internet was invented.
And now I'm learning that everyone was weird since the dawn of time!
(Finebros) So he's parodied pretty much everyone,
from Michael Jackson, to Kurt Cobain, to Lady Gaga.
Oh my gosh! The Lady Gaga...
He's just a legend. He does everything so perfect.
He went from Michael Jackson to Lady Gaga. Those are two different times.
My parents used to tell me that artists would know they made it
when Weird Al parodied their song.
(Finebros) Call you talk about music video parodies these days on YouTube?
Um...well, there's a bunch of parodies. Everyone does parodies nowadays...
with everything.
They're everywhere and they can't stop.
It's like a virus.
Gangnam Style, there was a parody by every YouTuber on the face of the Earth.
When you type it on YouTube and then it shows a little picture
in the corner, it'll look like the parody's gonna be really good,
and you click on it and it's in a backyard in Compton
and you're wondering...where it came from!
I don't really like how people just make stuff like that
just to get popular.
I like how he does it because he doesn't do it just to get popular.
He does it 'cause that's what he enjoys doing
and he obviously gets really into it.
There are a lot of really good ones, but so many of them
are not trying to be funny. They're just using insult humor
and talking crap about the artist and saying random, generic stuff
that 12 year olds tweet about.
That's not a parody. You're being annoying.
(Finebros) TRUTH!
(Finebros) How do you think Al feels about what's happened to parodies,
- that so many people do it now? - I'd be upset if I was him.
He's been doing this for 40 years.
And there are all these other people who are making these parodies
who don't make any sense, so I would be mad.
You know, I think he'd mostly feel pretty proud.
I mean, he started it.
If he can do it good enough to make up for everybody doing it bad,
then it doesn't even matter!
Out of every 100 people that are making a parody to get views,
there's that one person just like Weird Al that's doing it
because they love what they're doing.
And it's because of Weird Al that they're doing it.
So he should feel happy about that.
(Finebros) So the videos we showed you just came out recently,
and they're still getting millions of views.
Why do you think Weird Al is standing out, despite these songs being parodied
a ton of times already?
Well, for one thing, Weird Al is known. People know who Weird Al is.
It's 'cause he's the original. He knows how to do it.
There's no failing when you're Weird Al.
He's standout amazing!
And there's so many people that are getting behind him,
nostalgically speaking.
Like you guys and Philip DeFranco... so many people are talking about this
and backing him because this is who started their inspiration,
and now they're giving back and helping him get his views up on YouTube.
(Finebros) So Al's new album is number one on the billboard charts.
- How does that make you feel? - That saddens me.
But he's old! Are old people listening to his parodies?
That's weird!
Go Weird Al!
It kinda makes me wonder if, in a few years,
if parody artists are gonna become more popular than the original artists.
I'm buying it, first of all. Maybe two.
And that's huge for him! I'm so happy for him.
It just shows the legend... he's gonna continue.
I can't even handle this guy. He's just so good.
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