In the ’80s and ’90s, nothing was a bigger cultural tastemaker than MTV. Long before it became the home to endless reality shows, it played nothing but music videos 24 hours a day. If you wanted to ...

The legendary parodist also opened up about what it meant to sell out Madison Square Garden 46 years into his career.

Unless you have an intense hatred of Hawaiian shirts and/or words that rhyme with lasagna, it’s pretty tough to get mad at “Weird Al” Yankovic. After all, the song parodist has been a beloved staple o ...

Crafting song parodies isn’t easy. That’s why there is just one song parodist of note, Weird Al Yankovic, who doesn’t get enough credit. There’s no one else that has come close to what Yankovic, who ...

In this day and age, “Weird Al” Yankovic just doesn’t seem that weird. Of course, he has a wicked sense of humor, which has served him well during a hugely successful career of creating song parodies, ...

“Weird Al” Yankovic quit his most recent day job in 1983. By then he was a few years out of college and his self-titled debut album was already in stores. But he was still working a minimum-wage gig ...

Is there a music genre less respected than novelty music? Well, disco, but we weep not for the dead. The novelty song, which for our purposes here is defined as "a comical or nonsensical song," is ...