![]() ![]() Demento (played by Rainn Wilson) never laced Al’s guacamole with LSD. Of course the master of parody would ultimately make a parody of biopics: Despite what you see on screen, Weird Al didn’t have a torrid love affair with Madonna (played by Evan Rachel Wood). But make no mistake, this is by no means an actual biopic. Some of that is in “Weird,” which he wrote with Eric Appel. Yankovic has earned five Grammy awards and sold more than 12 million albums. In “Weird,” Daniel Radcliffe plays Al - but Yankovic is there too, appearing as record company exec Tony Scotti (the guy who first gave Weird Al his record deal). Weird Al is so timeless that he has managed to play the 1980s version of himself on shows like “How I Met Your Mother” and “The Goldbergs,” and get away with it. ![]() ![]() So yeah, that’s kind of the big irony of my life is, I’m still here.” “They thought, ‘comedy music, you’re a novelty artist.’ And historically, novelty artists become one-hit wonders, and then they’re forgotten quickly. ![]() “Nobody wanted to sign me in the early ‘80s,” he says. This is a guy who has now spent five decades in the limelight - far longer than many of the artists he has parodied over the years. ![]()
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