“Weird Al” Yankovic cemented himself in popular culture after his comedic debut within the late ’70s. The multitalented comic is thought for his inventive parodies of well-liked songs equivalent to Madonna’s “Like a Virgin” and Coolio’s “Gangsta Paradise.” Yankovic has earned quite a few awards and accolades over the course of his profession, together with 5 Grammy Awards for finest comedy album and finest idea music video. Several of the comic’s albums are additionally licensed platinum and gold. With such an esteemed legacy, it solely is sensible that Yankovic is lastly getting the biopic therapy.
“Weird: The Al Yankovic Story” starring Daniel Radcliffe, coming to The Roku Channel, is an “unexaggerated true story” that traces the comic and musician’s profession. It additionally stars Evan Rachel Wood as pop icon Madonna and “Abbott Elementary” star and creator Quinta Brunson because the incomparable Oprah Winfrey.
The movie, which parodies conventional music biopics, begins streaming on Nov. 4. But in order for you a preview of what to anticipate, scroll forward to see what the remainder of the forged seem like subsequent to their real-life counterparts.