I wonder if anyone notices.
Weird Al actually licenses the songs for parodying because free use is thin ice.
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
Amish paradise is another and probs my favourite of Al’s
Amish paradise is not a parody. Coolio actually had a case if he had sued.
Whew boy people ate the hell out of this onion.
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.
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.
It’s not the onions we eat that matters, but the onions grown along the way
If Al is so great why did he lose on Jeopardy?
I know. He just couldn’t get the questions right.
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I believe ‘types of sauerkraut’ was one of the categories.
I have it on good authority Weird Al hates sauerkraut.
He absolutely killed it on wheel of fortune* though.
*On game grumps
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.)
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).
It was a goddamned masterpiece!
Agreed. I have no idea how someone says “not as funny as it could have been”. I rolled in laughter for the entire thing. Hardest I’ve laughed in a long time.
l0/IO title
Oh. Someone did notice. How? You use your own font?
No, I use context
Apparently nobody noticed Michael Jackson is with a bunch of children either
Al has used that joke himself on Xittter.
Music royalties are weird. Somebody that understood it way better than me explained it probably better than I will. From what I remember there is basically a performance, lyrics, and music portion. So when an artist covers a song they only get the performance part. The original artist gets the other two parts(assuming the music/lyrics weren’t written by somebody else). Since Al is redoing the lyrics he gets the performance and lyrics part but he’s still sticking money in the original artists pockets for the music portion. Most artists are plenty happy to have Al use one of their songs.
The video for Fat was awesome.
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.
Are those angel or children Jackson molested? I mean if it’s his heaven.
It may just be their hell.
AI didn’t steal nothing. SHITTY companies “think” they can replace people work with AI and Robots. And i hope them to fall miserably.
BTW. If a Parody is stealing, then all the art even created is stealing from what there was before.
Weird Al explicitly gets permission before doing a parody. Usually artists ask/beg him to do them. This comic is BS.
The comic isn’t serious
This is the artist for The Onion
Al also happily shared the comic yesterday on BlueSky.
Kelly comics are intentional satire of the political comic style and topics.
They’re really fucking good at it, then.
Kelly is one of the best parody comic creators in the business. I believe he works for The Onion?
The “Stan Kelly” persona itself is a fictional satire. The work is actually done by cartoonist Ward Sutton, whose standard political cartoons under his own name criticize the right wing directly.
Hell yeah Ward. I didn’t know that, thank you!
Yeah it’s the Onion
Thank you! Good stuff.
His self-portrait as a sour boomer grandpa is the icing on the cake.
Thank you.
Wait. So they’re not some right wing pundit?
It’s more like the Colbert Report back in the day, an exaggerated right winger who is so obviously wrong it’s funny.
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.
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.
Thank you. I was always confused why it was on the onion. I figured there was some weird contract or something lol.
I mean, it makes sense. The Onion is a parody, so the political cartoons would be double-parody.
It does make sense. The artist is too good though, apparently I’ve been eating onions for a long time.
Huh. TIL
They’re really good, consistently.
I’m not sure if there’s a better archive, but you can find a few more here:
This is a better link.
That one’s clearer in its satire
Are you thinking of Ben Garrison? They’re parodying his style.
I believe I am. I guess I ate the onion
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.
“Ok, you can have a million dollars, but only if I can give you a car too” 😄
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.
Coolio was pissed that Al parodied him. He regretted it later in life and realized Al was great.
Respect to that. Weird Al has full on Dolly Parton vibes, but I can see someone who takes their music seriously and is up their own ass getting pissed
Coolio wasn’t cool about it.
Except for Coolio. Coolio had mad beef.
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.
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.
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.
He sure acted right on his follow up though.
He does, but he doesn’t have to.
I hope Al sees this, because I think he’d think it’s hilarious.
Weird Al shared it on his birthday: https://www.instagram.com/p/DBenaUQS8U-/
Beautiful.
On ther other hand, I hope that AI sees this.
Hang on. This ain’t a real Kelly, there’s no crying Statue of Liberty.
I can’t tell what the moral is without lady liberty crying.
From the art, this looks like a verrrry early one. Must not have added it to the repertoire yet.
Its a day old.
Where are you seeing that? Not seeing this in the Onion recent queue.
Wild, thanks!
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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.
If you think this is true and that creating entirely new lyrics to a song that are both coherent and also funny isn’t a talent, I’d like to hear your parody song. Oh not to mention actually playing an instrument and being able to sing well.
If you think this comic is true…
I write parody lyrics all the time, they are childish and incredibly vulgar.
Like the time I off the top of my head changed the lyrics to “I want to break free” to “I want to fuck Steve” and serenaded my buddy Steven. I made it through most of the song with it being pretty close.
I said “I need to write that down” and Steve was like “Nah, spontaneously that shit was funny. Writing it down would just make it weird” I was inclined to agree.
