Weird Al Yankovic News

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Loyal followers of the hit #Ham4Ham show will recall that Weird Al Yankovic was featured on a digital episode of the popular pre-show performances that Lin-Manuel unwittingly began on the afternoon of Hamilton's first Broadway lottery. Last night, Weird Al returned the favor, inviting Miranda to join him on stage to sing 'Yoda' at a concert in Chicago, where Miranda is currently in rehearsals for the Chicago production of Hamilton.

?The on sale date for the Palace Theater's highly anticipated 16 - 17 theater season is Sunday, September 18 at 11:00 am. The Box Office will be open that day until 8:00pm.

Cartoon Network continues to expand the MIGHTY MAGISWORDS interactive world with its linear series debut, Thursday, Sept. 29 at 6:30p.m.

Can you guess that TV show? It's funny. Unpredictable. Hosted by Craig Ferguson. It's garnered two consecutive Daytime Emmy(R) wins for Outstanding Game Show Host. That's right, it's CELEBRITY NAME GAME! 

Michael Jackson's personal RIAA gold record award for his epic album “Thriller” will be auctioned by Nate D. Sanders Auctions on August 25. Interested bidders may participate in the auction online.

Creator and host of COMEY BANG! BANG! Scott Aukerman took to Twitter today to announce that  the IFC series would conclude after its fifth season.

Seeso, the ad-free streaming comedy channel, today announced the renewal of three Original Series: travel parody show “HIDDEN AMERICA WITH JONAH RAY”; animated sketch series “THE CYANIDE & HAPPINESS SHOW,” based on the popular web comic; and “BIG JAY OAKERSON'S WHAT'S YOUR F@%KING DEAL?!” These renewals are in addition to the already announced second seasons of “BAJILLION DOLLAR PROPERTIE$” and “THE UCB SHOW.”

Ten-Foot Rat Cabaret is proud to announce its Third Anniversary Show! The show that brought you such luminaries as Anthony Atamanuik (30 Rock, Trump Dump, Trump vs Bernie London Debate), Reformed Whores (opening act for Alice Cooper, Weird Al Yankovic), Taradise (2014 Burlesque Idol Award winner) and Dwayne Hill (Mean Girls) celebrates its 3rd anniversary with a very special edition on Wednesday, September 7 at 9:30pm.

The Bushwick Starr is proud to announce our 2016-17 Season of Programming. The Season begins with our developing work program, the Propeller Project, which this year introduces a new piece by eclectic performance artist, Shasta Geaux Pop, aka Ayesha Jordan (Enter & Exit, Living Room Dance Breaks). Our Main Stage shows feature an ambitious and exciting line-up of world premiers from: award-winning theater ensemble The Mad Ones (The Essential Straight & Narrow, The Tremendous Tremendous), celebrated downtown duo Kate Benson and Lee Sunday Evans (A Beautiful Day in November on the Banks of the Greatest of the Great Lakes), rising star playwright Phillip Howze(abominable, Tiny Boyfriend), and multi-media cult favorites Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble(Everything One in the Disc of the Sun). Our ongoing community events and festivals, Puppet Kitchen, Brooklyn Gypsies, and Big Green Theater, will continue to present new collaborative work geared towards our Bushwick neighborhood audience, including a multi-lingual partnership between playwright William Burke (Comfort Dogs, the food was terrible) and Modesto Flako Jimenez(Brooklyn Gypsies). And finally, our free Starr Reading Series will cultivate new plays in development from some of NYC's most exciting young playwrights.

Conan O'Brien will welcome an all-star lineup of guests when he returns to San Diego for a week of shows to be taped during Comic-Con(R) International.

Few would have guessed that 'Weird Al' Yankovic - who as a shy, accordion-playing teenager got his start sending homemade tapes in to the 'Dr. Demento Radio Show' - would go on to become the biggest-selling comedy recording artist in history and a pop culture icon. Now in his fourth career decade as America's foremost song parodist, he has been honored with four Grammy® Awards and 15 nominations, including his most recent win in 2015 for Mandatory Fun, the first-ever comedy album in history to debut at #1 on the Billboard charts, capping a career's worth of accolades for classic song and music video parodies such as 'Eat It,' 'Like a Surgeon,' 'Smells Like Nirvana,' 'Amish Paradise,' 'White & Nerdy,' and 'Tacky.'

'COMEDY BANG! BANG!' is getting weirder this season... and it's not just thanks to the new bandleader and co-host, 'Weird Al' Yankovic. Season five, premiering with two back-to-back episodes today, June 3 at 11:00pm ET/PT and 11:30pm ET/PT on IFC, brings us the highly-anticipated return of the surreal, wildly entertaining scripted talk show, hosted and created by Scott Aukerman. The new season returns with 20 episodes filled with an exciting line-up of guest stars, including award-winning musicians, top-tier comics, sketch luminaries, and the star of an 80's classic dance movie, each joining in on the fun with Scott and Al. Every week, two back-to-back episodes will air starting at 11:00pm; the first 10 episodes run through July 1, and the remaining 10 episodes will air on IFC this fall.

The Emmy Award®-winning pop-culture phenomenon is reimagined and better than ever when a cast of all-star celebrities take center stage and partner with contestants from across the country to compete against each other with hopes of making it to the winners circle

'COMEDY BANG! BANG!' is weirder than ever before this season, thanks to the addition of new bandleader and co-host, 'Weird Al' Yankovic, and fans don't need to wait to the TV premiere to start feeling the weirdness.

The Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts is concluding the 2015-2016 season with two shows in June.