“F che was a murderous, terrorist thug,..”
Agreed. I cringe when I see his image on tee shirts, proudly displayed by people who don’t know a thing about him.
Me too. I bought a t-shirt with General Pinochet image on it. Much like this one:
His "Mandatory Fun" theme seems to have been inspired by his contractual obligation to come up with a new comedy album by such and such date, whether he enjoyed it or not. Hence the "Mandatory" part.
At any rate, being the genius that he is, he took a step to the left with that theme and made certain parts of show about himself, all dressed up as a South American military dictator.
One of the T-shirts for sale after the event was a... uh, kind of a "Che" shirt, except "Che", in his familiar romantic pose, was morphed with Al... thus Al was ridiculing Che in particular.
Of course the back of the shirt says "Weird Al Yankovic, Mandatory Fun tour, 2015"
Now, this shirt ended up becoming my usual shirt to wear to the shooting range, just because I like to. Once, my wife and I went to an indoor range near our house and there were two guys at the counter as we walked up to face them, an older guy and a younger guy. The younger guy was helping us get checked in and stuff, but the older guy just kinda stood there with a stern look on his face and didn't say anything. So we got checked in, did an about face and walked on into the range area and did our thing for awhile - facing downrange, with our backs facing the counter, visible thru the glass windows between the shooting range and the retail store area and counter.
We walked back out, walked up to the counter to clear our tab and stuff, and the younger guy was still there but the older guy had left.
The guy says, "Hey, uh... is that Weird Al Yankovic on the front of your shirt?" I said, "Yes, in fact it is."
The young guy just kinda laughed and shook his head.
I still have that shirt. I think I'm gonna wear it to the gym sometime.