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Weird Al, Tenacious D, Grand Budapest Hotel, and Joan Rivers All Win at This Year’s Grammys
February 9, 2015
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In the gigantic crowd of Grammy nominees, finding the comedy winners might be a little difficult, especially since they’re never all announced during the telecast. 

So, we’ve hunted through all them and found 2015 Grammy winners in or somehow connected to comedy.

Best Comedy Album-Weird Al Yankovic “Mandatory Fun”
Best Spoken Word Album-Joan Rivers “Diary of a Mad Diva”
Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media-Alexandre Desplat “The Grand Budapest Hotel”
Best Metal Performance-Tenacious D-“The Last In Line”

Honestly, there are no surprises here and we’re glad to see Yankovic cap off his 2014 Billboard #1 album with a Grammy win.

Now you can go enjoy the rest of your evening with Better Call Saul and Last Week Tonight.

Weird Al Yankovic Going on Giant, 5 Month Worldwide Tour
January 20, 2015
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Coming off his #1 album Mandatory Fun, Weird Al Yankovic is now going on a worldwide tour that spans all over the country and all over the world including Belgium, Ireland Norway, Netherlands, Canada, and more.

The Mandatory World Tour will also go from May 12th to Oct 6th as of now with 88 dates, which is pretty much unheard of as far as comedy tours go. 

Even more impressive, Yankovic might be more dates.

Here Are The Comedy Nominees for The 2015 Grammys
December 5, 2014
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The Grammys have just announced the majority of the nominees for their 83 categories, which include Best Recording Package, Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package, Best Album Notes, Best Contemporary Christian Music Album, and Best Comedy Album.

Of course, we’re only concerned with comedy here rather than how an album is packaged or what music is playing in your local chapel’s gift shop, so the nominees for Best Comedy Album are:

“Mandatory Fun”-Weird Al Yankovic
“Obsessed”-Jim Gaffigan 
“Oh My God”-Louis C.K.
“Tragedy Plus Comedy Equals Time”-Patton Oswalt
“We Are Miracles”-Sarah Silverman

Honestly, it’ll be hard to tell who’s going to win as Silverman has an Emmy for We Are Miracles, Yankovic scored #1 Billboard spot with Mandatory Fun, and Oswalt, C.K., and Gaffigan are critically and commercially amongst the top tier of funniest people in comedy right now.

Also, we’d like to note that Joan Rivers got nominated posthumously in the Best Spoken Word Album category for “Diary of a Mad Diva”, Tenacious D got nominated for Best Metal Performance for covering Dio’s “The Last in Line”, and Tegan & Sara and The Lonely Island’s “Everything Is Awesome” from The Lego Movie got nominated for Best Song Written for Visual Media.

See the full list, if you dare, of nominees here.

Weird Al Yankovic on His Song Process, Getting a #1 Album, and Playing Wheel of Fortune with James Brown
October 1, 2014
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Turns out the Weird Al Yankovic has just wrapped up a three decade plus long record contract with his latest chart topping album Mandatory Fun. Yankovic chatted about that with Seth Meyers on Late Night last night as well as how he makes sure to clear his song parodies with the artists (even if its the night before recording) and his overall process in song writing and what he goes for.

While that’s all well and good, Weird Al also talked about the one time that he played Wheel of Fortune with Little Richard and James Brown, which is a thing that really happened.

Weird Al Yankovic Might Be Just Releasing Singles and Music Videos From Now On
August 2, 2014
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(via Laughspin)

Weird Al Yankovic who scored a #1 album for Mandatory Fun on Billboard might have made his last complete album. The success of his 8 music videos over 8 days is undeniable in its conjunction with the release of the actual album. 

So, maybe it might be sad that Mandatory Fun could potentially be the last full album from Weird Al, but, on the other hand, it might not take 3 years to get another song and video from him either.

Weird Al Yankovic Scores His First #1 Billboard Album
July 23, 2014
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Billboard has just reported their official chart toppers and it Weird Al Yankovic has indeed made it to #1 with his latest album Mandatory Fun. This is an overdue first for Weird Al.

We’re not surprised given how well crafted both the album and music videos were as well as Yankovic’s release strategy across the wild plains of the Internet. 

Even more impressive than that is Mandatory Fun now rests as the sole comedy album to reach the top of the charts this millennium as the last #1 comedy album was released in 1963 with Allan Sherman’s  My Son, The Nut.

Weird Al Yankovic Is Uniting the Internet with His #8Videos8Days and Might Be On His Way to a #1 Album
July 21, 2014
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Nerdist, Funny or Die, College Humor, Vevo, Yahoo!, Pop Crush, Amazon, and even The Wall Street Journal all got to release one of Weird Al Yankovic’s 8 music videos from his new album Mandatory Fun.

To our knowledge, there hasn’t been such an expansive rollout of music videos over so many brands that make or host original content and, as you might imagine, this move has gotten Yankovic has gotten tons of views and a #1 album overall on iTunes as well as possible #1 album on Billboard.

For any album, not just a musical comedy parody album, that’s impressive.

Weird Al Yankovic Parodies Lorde’s “Royals” with “Foil”
July 16, 2014
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The 8 days of 8 music videos from Weird Al Yankovic’s latest album Mandatory Fun continues today with Yankovic’s spin on the megahit from Lorde played on nearly every radio station in existence, “Royals”.

Watch “Foil” made with College Humor featuring cameos from Patton Oswalt, Thomas Lennon, and Robert Ben Garant, and you’ll forget about how you’ll never be royal.

Weird Al Yankovic’s First Music Video “Tacky” Parodies Pharrell’s “Happy”
July 14, 2014
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Weird Al Yankovic has begun his 8 days of 8 consecutive, brand spanking new music videos by parodying Pharrell’s mega hit “Happy” with his “Tacky”. Enlisting the loudest possible clothes you could find and the talents of Jack Black, Kristen Schaal, Aisha Tyler, Margaret Cho, and Eric Stonestreet, Yankovic is off to a great start making the release of his new album Mandatory Fun tomorrow all the more exciting.

Nerdist has the exclusive first video to watch right here.

Weird Al Yankovic Announces Track List for Mandatory Fun
July 7, 2014
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Weird Al Yankovic Announces Track List for Mandatory Fun

While we’re still a week away from the release of Weird Al Yankovic’s latest album, Mandatory Fun, the track list has been announced as Mandatory Fun is currently up for pre-sale. 

Sure, you can try guessing which popular songs Weird Al will be parodying, but we can’t wait to hear “NOW That’s What I Call Polka”.

Weird Al Yankovic Has 8 Music Videos Ready for “Mandatory Fun”
June 29, 2014
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Weird Al Yankovic Has 8 Music Videos Ready for “Mandatory Fun”

The release of Weird Al Yankovic’s latest album Mandatory Fun isn’t until July 15th, but, starting a day before, Yankovic will be releasing a horde of music videos for the album. 

In fact, Weird Al has 8 lined-up and he’s going to release them day-by-day for 8 days.  So, two weeks from now is going to be a lot of fun, whether you’re want to have some or not.

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