And…I…the author of this piece, should know. I wrote the book on Al, and with Al, in the 2012 coffee table book Weird Al: The Book (which is credited to Nathan Rabin with Al Yankovic), then followed it up with multiple other books about the pop parodist, including 2020’ The Weird Accordion to Al: Ridiculously Ill-Advised Vanity Edition, a 500-page guide to his life’s work in music, television and film, and the recently released coloring book The Weird A-Coloring to Al: Cynical Movie Cash-In Edition, which was just released.
Anyway. Yankovic’s rapturously received Roku faux-biopic Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, which recently won the Midnight Madness People’s Choice Award at the prestigious Toronto International Film Festival and is opening to deafening buzz. Even though the movie is very much not a real account of the actual life of Al Yankovic, it is filled with many references to Weird Al lore.
Here are 31 nifty Easter eggs and deep-cut references you might have missed in Weird: The Al Yankovic Story.
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