TV-14 | 1h 47min | Comedy, Satire, Parody, Biography | 4 November 2022 (USA)
Arriving in tandem with the advent of MTV, “Weird Al” Yankovic was a custom glove-fit for the burgeoning audio-visual music revolution, yet he was unlike anyone else making music or videos at the time. Accompanying himself on accordion with a traditional guitar-bass-drums backing band, Yankovic’s stock-in-trade was in parodying other people’s songs. Not covers or novelties, just parodies.
