Weird: A Brief History Of Weird Al On The Big Screen

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It seems like popular musicians who also have an acting career are more common than those who don't, but every performer is different. Some are just as prominent on the big screen as they are in the music world, while others appear in a few fascinating scattered cameos.

Weird Al Yankovic probably doesn't get enough credit for the decades of stellar material and world-shaking influence he's had on the comedy world. It's hard to imagine what «enough credit» could possibly look like. Over forty years of transcendent fame and influence have left Weird Al in the sort of cult fandom that surrounds him with an army of fans and a long history of interesting accomplishments.

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Weird Al's primary acting exposure comes from his many entertaining music videos, in which he often portrays a facsimile of the artists he's parodying. The man has almost 200 credits on IMDb, but so few of them are film projects. Music videos make up the bulk, but he's in a tremendous amount of TV series. In every medium, he appears as himself more often than as a character. He's an accomplished voice actor in a wide variety of animated series, portraying the main character in Milo Murphy's Law and iconic villain Darkseid in multiple episodes of Teen Titans Go!. Though he is very prolific in a variety of fun roles, his film career is less substantial but just as interesting.

The biggest moment and first era of Weird Al's film career came in the 1989 comedy he wrote and starred in. UHF is the story of George Newman, an unemployed weirdo who finds himself in a management position at a local broadcast TV station. Newman's oddball sensibilities revolutionize the medium with bizarre game shows,