"Weird Al" Yankovic


 * For the actor's animated namsake, see Weird Al Yankovic (character).

Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic is an American singer, musician, record producer, and actor. Yankovic has voiced fictionalized versions of himself several times throughout the decades.

Yankovic hosted ABC's The ABC Saturday Morning Preview Park from Knott's Berry Farm in 1984. He was interviewed on the Space Ghost Coast to Coast episode "Banjo" in 1994. This interview was later referenced in "Story Book House" and "$20.01," and recreated in "Woody Allen's Fall Project," with Yankovic played by C. Martin Croker.

In 1993, Weird Al performed the song "Bedrock Anthem," which was granted its own music video which contained scenes from The Flintstones TV series. In the following year, the song was included on The Flintstones: Music from Bedrock album to coincide with the release of The Flintstones film.

In the 1997 "Talent Show" episode of The Weird Al Show, Yankovic mentioned that he was originally in the pilot episode of The Flintstones, playing Fred Flintstone's cousin, but was cut after failing to say his line correctly.

He was recently interviewed for The CW's Scooby-Doo, Where Are You Now! in 2021.

20th century

 * The Weird Al Show
 * Al Yankstone ("Talent Show," 1997)

21th century

 * The Brak Show
 * Petroleum Joe ("Feud," 2002)
 * Johnny Bravo
 * Himself ("Johnny Makeover," 2004)
 * Batman: The Brave and the Bold
 * Himself ("Bat-Mite Presents: Batman's Strangest Cases!," 2011)
 * Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?
 * Himself ("Attack of the Weird Al-O-Saurus!," 2019)

Other roles
Yankovic is famous or infamous for his numerous parody music videos of other musicians since the 1980s. From 1984 to 2006, he hosted periodic Al TV specials on MTV. In 1989, he wrote and starred in the film UHF. He also created and starred in the short-lived CBS sitcom The Weird Al Show. He has guest-starred in several television shows as himself, both in live-action and animated forms.

Other voice roles include the title characters of Animal Man on Cartoon Network's DC Nation block, and Milo Murphy's Law on Disney XS, Squid Hat on The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, Wreck-Gar in Transformers Animated, Banana Man on Adventure Time, and even Superman on Mad, and Darkseid, ruler of Apokolips, in Teen Titans Go!

Where to find his

 * Official website
 * He's on Facebook
 * He's on Instagram
 * He's on Twitter
 * He's on YouTube