Your opinions of Weird Al Yankovic's talent?

[Sunbird]

I :heart: love his songs.

Some are even better than the originals!

 

[StageLeft]

Not so special, but somewhat funny.

 

[gigapet]

ehhhh

im sure if i concentrated enough and smoked enough dope i ccould come up with some really excellent parody lyrics myself.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

i respect his creativity

 

[Gibson486]

doing cover songs...making them your own....atempting to be funny and failing........what do you think?

 

[Slvrtg277]

Originally posted by: Gibson486
doing cover songs...making them your own....atempting to be funny and failing........what do you think?

That's pretty much my take on it. Has anyone ever seen UHF part 2?

 

[Pliablemoose]

I've seen him in concert, recently:heart:

You haven't lived till you've heard a couple thousand nerds singing The Saga Begins, holding up their cell phonesi

 

[Zysoclaplem]

Down in the workshop all the elves were makin' toys
For the good Gentile girls and the good Gentile boys
When the boss busted in, nearly scared 'em half to death
Had a rifle in his hands and cheap whiskey on his breath
From his beard to his boots he was covered with ammo
Like a big fat drunk disgruntled Yuletide Rambo
And he smiled as he said with a twinkle in his eye,
"Merry Christmas to all... now you're all gonna die!"

The night Santa went crazy
The night St. Nick went insane
Realized he'd been gettin' the wrong deal
Something finally must have snapped in his brain

Well, the workshop is gone now he decided to bomb it
Everywhere you'll find pieces of Cupid and Comet
And he tied up his helpers and he held the elves hostage
And he ground up poor Rudolph into reindeer sausage
He got Dancer and Prancer with an old German Luger
And he slashed up Dasher just like Freddie Krueger
And he picked up a flamethrower and he barbequed Blitzen
And he took a big bite and said, "It tastes just like chicken!"

The night Santa went crazy
The night Kris Kringle went nuts
Now you can hardly walk around the North Pole
Without steppin' in reindeer guts

There's the National Guard and the FBI
There's a van from the Eyewitness News
And helicopters circlin' 'round in the sky
And the bullets are flyin', the body count's risin'
And everyone's dyin' to know, oh Santa, why?
My my my my my my
You used to be such a jolly guy

[soft, pleasant original version]
Yes, Virginia, now Santa's doing time
In a federal prison for his infamous crime
Hey, little friend, now don't you cry no more tears
He'll be out with good behavior in 700 more years
But now Vixen's in therapy, and Donner's still nervous
And the elves all got jobs working for the postal service
And they say Mrs. Claus, she's on the phone every night
With her lawyer negotiating the movie rights

They're talkin' 'bout - the night Santa went crazy
The night St. Nicholas flipped
Broke his back for some milk and cookies
Sounds to me like he was tired of gettin' gypped

Wo, the night Santa went crazy
The night St. Nick went insane
Realized he'd been gettin' the wrong deal
Something finally must have snapped in his brain

Wo, something finally must have snapped in his brain
Tell ya, something finally must have snapped... in his brain

 

[jemcam]

Although I think most of his stuff is stupid, it does take talent to do what he does which I can't say for most rap "singers".

I respect his talent and some of his stuff cracks me up.

 

[MaxDepth]

did you call it "talent"?
:roll:

 

[Sunbird]

I really like the Trigger Happy (Beach Boys parody) song most if I had to choose one.

 

[ni4ni]

Don't knock him until you have seen him in concert. My side was literally hurting from all of the laughing. The same goes for Carrot Top. Totally hilarious!

 

[FoBoT]

i have been a big fan since the early 80's
i took my daughter to see his concert last year, we had a really good time. got good seats and when he came down into the audieance during the show, he went right past us, my daughter thought that was neato