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The 1989 film UHF featured a " Weird Al " Yankovic parody music video, " Money for Nothing / Beverly Hillbillies *," combining " The Ballad of Jed Clampett " and Dire Straits ' " Money for Nothing.
Rick Dees, at the time a radio DJ in Memphis, Tennessee, recorded " Disco Duck " ( 1976 ) and " Dis-Gorilla " ( 1977 ); Frank Zappa parodied the lifestyles of disco dancers in " Dancin ' Fool " on his 1979 Sheik Yerbouti album, and " Disco Boy " on his 1976 Zoot Allures album ; and " Weird Al " Yankovic's 1981 eponymous debut album includes a disco song called " Gotta Boogie ", an extended pun on the similarity of the disco subgenre name " boogie " to the American slang word " booger " and its British counterpart " bogey ".
Among the irregular contributors with just a single Mad byline to their credit are Charles M. Schulz, Chevy Chase, " Weird Al " Yankovic, Andy Griffith, Will Eisner, Kevin Smith, J. Fred Muggs, Boris Vallejo, Sir John Tenniel, Jean Shepherd, Winona Ryder, Jimmy Kimmel, Jason Alexander, Walt Kelly, Rep. Barney Frank, Tom Wolfe, Steve Allen, Jim Lee, Jules Feiffer, Donald Knuth and Richard Nixon, who remains the only President credited with " writing " a Mad article.
Weird Al Yankovic's song " White and Nerdy " states many other stereotypical nerd interests, including the Segway, ten-pin bowling, A. V.
Popeil has been referenced in the music of Alice Cooper, the Beastie Boys, and " Weird Al " Yankovic, who wrote a parody song entitled " Mr. Popeil " which was a tribute to Ron Popeil's father, Samuel Popeil.
* " Spam ", a song about the meat by " Weird Al " Yankovic on the album UHF – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Other Stuff
Among some of the better known polka ( and waltzes ) artists and composers include Happy Louie and Julie, Frankie Yankovic, Walter Ostanek ( Canada ), Verne Meisner, Mike Schneider, Tom Brusky, Walt Groller, Joey Miskulin, Jimmy Sturr, Kyle Redman Polka Band, and ( in combination with more modern styles ) " Weird Al " Yankovic ( no known relation to Frankie Yankovic ) and The Our Gang Orchestra.
Many popular songs make reference to Captain Kangaroo, including the Statler Brothers ' 1965 hit song " Flowers on the Wall ", the " Weird Al " Yankovic song " The Brady Bunch ", the Bloodhound Gang's " Your Only Friends Are Make Believe ", and the VeggieTales song, " The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything ".
In 2006, the label denied " Weird Al " Yankovic permission to release " You're Pitiful ", a parody of James Blunt's " You're Beautiful ", despite Blunt's own approval of the song.
Many of " Weird Al " Yankovic's original songs are pastiches: for example, " Dare to Be Stupid " is a Devo pastiche, and " Bob " from the album Poodle Hat is a pastiche of Bob Dylan.
* The same sequence was also parodied in the video for Weird Al Yankovic's song " Bob "; that video also includes specific allusions to the INXS video.
" Weird Al " Yankovic recorded a song called Isle Thing, a parody of Tone Lōc's " Wild Thing ", about a rapper whose girlfriend introduces him to the show.
* Musician " Weird Al " Yankovic has a song " Twister " on his Even Worse album about the board game, done in a style parody of early Beastie Boys.
Lander has also appeared in numerous other TV shows and movies including The Bob Newhart Show, Barney Miller, Happy Days, Married ... with Children, Twin Peaks, On the Air, The Weird Al Show, Mad About You, and The Drew Carey Show.
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