I wonder if anyone notices.

  • Valen@lemm.ee
    22827·
    20 days ago

    Weird Al explicitly gets permission before doing a parody. Usually artists ask/beg him to do them. This comic is BS.

        • NevermindNoMind@lemmy.world
          55·
          20 days ago

          It’s more like the Colbert Report back in the day, an exaggerated right winger who is so obviously wrong it’s funny.

          • Sludgehammer@lemmy.worldEnglish
            56·
            20 days ago

            The character “Kelly” isn’t explicitly right wing, instead he’s supposed to be as wrong as possible. As an example rather than “Pro-choice” or “Pro-life” Kelly is “Pro-abortion”, because he hates children and thinks they should be aborted before they have a chance to destroy their parents lives. Or the comic where Kelly opposed drug legalization… because police dramas wouldn’t have anything write about.

            Oddly, Kelly’s “wrong as possible” stance does seem to frequently align with right wing politics, for some reason.

            • GuerillaGorillas@lemmy.world
              17·
              20 days ago

              My favorites are the ones where he’s dedicating a whole comic to some petty personal grievance, like a grocery store being out of a product he had a coupon for.

            • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
              81·
              20 days ago

              Thank you. I was always confused why it was on the onion. I figured there was some weird contract or something lol.

              • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
                2·
                16 days ago

                I mean, it makes sense. The Onion is a parody, so the political cartoons would be double-parody.

                • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
                  1·
                  16 days ago

                  It does make sense. The artist is too good though, apparently I’ve been eating onions for a long time.

    • magnetosphere@fedia.io
      41·
      20 days ago

      I remember an interview where Al was talking about his early career. Madonna asked him “When ya gonna do ‘Like a Surgeon’”? They talked about it, and she said “But only if I can be in the video.” Al, who was MUCH less popular than Madonna at the time, couldn’t say “Okay!” fast enough.

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
        17·
        20 days ago

        And then they fell madly in love. Madonna was a terrible influence on Al, leading him to a life of debauchery and selfishness, which culminated down to Columbia, where he was involved in a shootout with Pablo Escobar… or so his autobiographical movie told me.

      • toynbee@lemmy.world
        46·
        20 days ago

        A few weeks ago, I think I read (here on Lemmy!) that he regretted his beef. In fact, I think he said he thought his managers gave him bad information to cause the beef.

        Before that I didn’t even know there was any, so please don’t think me any kind of expert on the topic.

        • Bertuccio@lemmy.world
          17·
          20 days ago

          I remember it was that he felt his managers should have told him he was an idiot more than they misinformed him. He was upset about what they didn’t say, not what they said.

        • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
          15·
          20 days ago

          Haha, that’s how I know about it too. I just read some interview with Coolio a few weeks ago where he talked about it. The interview was linked here on Lemmy.

    • Vincent@feddit.nl
      94·
      20 days ago

      I never really get the point they’re trying to make in these comic parodies (if there is any), which makes it less meaningful to me if people eat the onion.

      • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
        8·
        19 days ago

        They’re usually a parody of shitty Ben Garrison political cartoons, but artists are expected to crank out more and more content and this guy has found his niche. So you eventually start getting some that aren’t really a parody of anything; except maybe his own work. Although this one is specifically about parodies… I’m just gonna step away before this gets too meta.

    • Wogi@lemmy.world
      83·
      20 days ago

      Most of Al’s music isn’t parody. Smells like Nirvana is one of very few that is, as the song Al writes is about the original work/artist

    • SuspiciousCatThing@pawb.social
      1·
      19 days ago

      I watched both it and Bad recently. I loved how close he got it. Same set, same moves, just as a fat person. Honestly brilliant.

      I’ve only seen that one and Amish Paradise, but I’ve never seen the video for Gangster Paradise, so idk if he always gets it so close.

  • Underwaterbob@lemm.eeEnglish
    17·
    20 days ago

    I haven’t exactly been to a large number of big concerts in my life, but still I have to say that Weird Al’s was the best. It was late 90s. He played every one of his hits in costume and nailed it every time. For the finale, he buried the front rows (I was in row 2) in fake bubble snow while playing Christmas at Ground Zero. It was gloriously ridiculous. 10/10 experience. Hardest working man in showbiz. UHF was a documentary. (I still haven’t seen the new movie. I really should get on that.)

    • CitizenKong@lemmy.world
      1·
      19 days ago

      The biopic? It’s good. Not as funny as it could have been, but Radcliffe is amazing and you learn many interesting facts about Al (like the steamy relationship with Madonna).

  • DarkCloud@lemmy.world
    11·
    20 days ago

    It’s the law that you can make fun of famous works of art for comedy, social commentary, parody, and just to make fun of them… Which is very interesting. It’s interesting that that was decided and made a law.

    Jesters must have the freedom to mock the King.