The “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story,” stars Daniel Radcliffe and Evan Rachel Wood and streams free starting today on The Roku Channel.
Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Evan Rachel Wood, Rainn Wilson, Toby Huss, Julianne Nicholson, Quinta Brunson, Weird Al Yankovic, Will Forte, Patton Oswalt, Michael McKean, Dot-Marie Jones, Jorma Taccone, Demetri Martin, Dean Sharpe, Paul F. Tompkins, Scott Aukerman, Akiva Schaffer, Conan O’Brien, Emo Philips, Nina West, Jack Black, David Dastmalchian, Julie Chang, Josh Groban, Seth Green, Arturo Castro, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Diedrich Bader, Richard Aaron Anderson, David Bloom, Thomas Lennon, Johnny Pemberton, Jonah Ray, Jeremy Bolm, Jack Lancaster, Spencer Treat Clark, Gordon Tarpley, James Preston Rogers, Keanush Tafreshi, Tommy O’Brien, Jacob Lawrence, Trenyce, Lisa Margaroli, LeChristopher Williams, and Devlin Wilder.
Weird Al became a pop culture icon and the biggest-selling comedy recording artist of all time, with classic song and music video parodies such as “Eat It,” “Like a Surgeon,” “Smells Like Nirvana,” “Amish Paradise,” “White & Nerdy” and “Word Crimes.”
In addition to his cult-hit feature film “UHF” in 1989, his late ’90s CBS Saturday morning series “The Weird Al Show” and numerous TV specials he has made for MTV and VH1 over the years, Yankovic has remained a staple of film and television, from appearances on The Simpsons, 30 Rock, The Goldbergs and How I Met Your Mother to performing live on the Primetime Emmy Awards and starring in his own concert specials for Disney, VH1 and Comedy Central. In 2015 Yankovic took over as co-host and bandleader for the fifth season of IFC’s Comedy Bang! Bang! Al can be heard as the voice of the title character in Disney Channel‘s animated series Milo Murphy’s Law (his other voice acting work includes appearances on Bojack Horseman, Gravity Falls, Adventure Time, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Wander Over Yonder, and the DC animated feature Batman vs. Robin).
Yankovic added “New York Times bestselling author” to his resume in 2011 with the release of his children’s book, When I Grow Up (HarperCollins), followed two years later by My New Teacher and Me! 2012 saw the release of Weird Al: The Book (Abrams), an illustrated hardcover on Al‘s life and career, and in 2015 Yankovic became not only MAD Magazine‘s cover boy, but the first guest editor in their 63-year history.
In 2018 “Weird Al” Yankovic received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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