Posted on 04/30/2019 6:55:18 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain
“Weird Al” Yankovic is in his fourth decade poking fun at the biggest pop songs around.
Does he have to start apologizing for a few of them now? If so, he’s not alone.
Comedians are revisiting their past material given our overly sensitive times. Often, the decision is made for them. Just ask would-be Oscar host Kevin Hart, felled by old homophobic jokes.
Others are taking pre-emptive measures to avoid those “Apology Tours.” It’s why Jonah Hill and Seth Rogen apologized for their comedy hit “Superbad.” It might explain why Judd Apatow, the king of “white dude bro” humor, went woke.
So far, “Weird Al” has mostly avoided the PC Police.
Mostly.
(Excerpt) Read more at hollywoodintoto.com ...
I’m going to drive to Lancaster tomorrow and tell the Stoltzfus clan...
Al released “Craigslist” in the summer of 2009 as an iTunes download. It appeared two years later on his Alpocalypse album.
I actually went to see UHF in the theater when it first came out.
It was glorious.
The theater was mostly empty.
(sigh)
It was still fun, though.
“Don’t you know the Dewey Decimal System?!”
The Left cries that Bill Gaines, publisher of MAD, was red-baiting and playing on hysteria when he published his response to censorship calls from presidential hopeful Estes Kefauver and Dr. Frederic Wertham...
It ran on the inside cover of all of Gaines' EC Comics that month, not just MAD.
Thanks for the link, I just binged on Weird Al videos and haven’t laughed that hard in ages.
>>But, I don’t want to hear Katy Perry’s trash even with funny lyrics.
Same as it’s always been.
Homer and Jethro ran up against this in the 60s as well
Winchester Cathedral
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a__tjdjrErU
Winchester cathedral
you’re drivin’ me mad
I don’t know who sings it
but it’s mighty sad
I’ll really be glad when
this song disappears
it set music back now
at least fifty years
Now everyone knows
just how much we needed a hit
and now that it’s done all i say
i hope that the world is ready for it
winchester cathedral
you’re doin’ me dirt
they finally wrote one
that we couldn’t hurt...
Missed that one. Hilarious. I can’t even remember the song hes spoofing.
This one article is more offensive than all of Weird Al’s music combined.
This all started when gays got the Dire Straits’ song “Money For Nothing” banned from Canadian airwaves.
The mega-hit song contained the verse:
“You see that little faggot with the earring and the make-up?
Yeah buddy, that’s his own hair.
That little faggot’s got his own jet airplane.
That little faggot, he’s a millionaire...”
Surprisingly, the original words are available on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tTmpzfyChw
The song was meant as a mockery of people who do grunt jobs and don’t understand the lifestyles of musicians. In the video, the appliance mover is critical of the fame and fortune of musicians. It has nothing to do with homosexuals other than the stereotyping of skinny strung-out rock musicians like the Rolling Stones and what they must do in their spare time.
“Money For Nothing” was a hit in 1985. The outrage over the lyrics didn’t begin until the late 1990s. Now, if the song is aired in any public setting, that verse will be edited out. Surprisingly, the original
Trapped In the Drive-Thru, which is a parody of R. Kelly’s “Trapped in the Closet” is a classic.
Hey thanks to you both, that’s some good stuff.
Still, he's an incredibly talented musician, and a staple of my childhood.
And most of the artists love it.
If your song is big enough for the Weird Al treatment you’re making good coin.
Classic AL TV “Interview” with Eminem (who refused to let Al parody his song)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QOya9-lwQk
Weird Al has nothing to apologize for! And White and Nerdy is like the funniest song / video ever made by humans.
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