{"id":12038,"date":"2022-11-04T07:27:12","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T07:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/04\/weird-al-yankovic-story-cast-next-to-real-life-counterparts\/"},"modified":"2022-11-04T07:27:12","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T07:27:12","slug":"weird-al-yankovic-story-cast-next-to-real-life-counterparts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/04\/weird-al-yankovic-story-cast-next-to-real-life-counterparts\/","title":{"rendered":"Weird: Al Yankovic Story Cast Next to Real-Life Counterparts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"slide-body\">\n<p>&#8220;Weird Al&#8221; Yankovic cemented himself in popular culture after his comedic debut within the late &#8217;70s. The multitalented comic is thought for his inventive parodies of well-liked songs equivalent to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/Madonna\" class=\"ga-track\" data-ga-category=\"internal click\" data-ga-label=\"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/Madonna\" data-ga-action=\"body text link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Madonna&#8217;s<\/a> &#8220;Like a Virgin&#8221; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/entertainment\/coolio-gangstas-paradise-story-48965087\" class=\"ga-track\" data-ga-category=\"internal click\" data-ga-label=\"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/entertainment\/coolio-gangstas-paradise-story-48965087\" data-ga-action=\"body text link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coolio&#8217;s &#8220;Gangsta Paradise.&#8221;<\/a> Yankovic has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weirdal.com\/archives\/awards\/\" class=\"track-outbound\" onclick=\"trackOutboundLink(&#039;article:page&#039;, &#039;www.weirdal.com&#039;, &#039;48818928&#039;, &#039;https:\/\/www.weirdal.com\/archives\/awards\/&#039;)\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-category=\"internal click\" data-ga-label=\"https:\/\/www.weirdal.com\/archives\/awards\/\" data-ga-action=\"body text link\" rel=\"noopener\">earned quite a few awards and accolades<\/a> over the course of his profession, together with 5 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/Grammy-Awards\" class=\"ga-track\" data-ga-category=\"internal click\" data-ga-label=\"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/Grammy-Awards\" data-ga-action=\"body text link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grammy Awards<\/a> for finest comedy album and finest idea music video. Several of the comic&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/entertainment\/daniel-radcliffe-weird-al-yankovic-biopic-48684318\" class=\"ga-track\" data-ga-category=\"internal click\" data-ga-label=\"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/entertainment\/daniel-radcliffe-weird-al-yankovic-biopic-48684318\" data-ga-action=\"body text link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Weird: The Al Yankovic Story<\/a>&#8221; starring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/Daniel-Radcliffe\" class=\"ga-track\" data-ga-category=\"internal click\" data-ga-label=\"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/Daniel-Radcliffe\" data-ga-action=\"body text link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Radcliffe<\/a>, coming to The Roku Channel, is an &#8220;unexaggerated true story&#8221; that traces the comic and musician&#8217;s profession. It additionally stars <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/Evan-Rachel-Wood\" class=\"ga-track\" data-ga-category=\"internal click\" data-ga-label=\"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/Evan-Rachel-Wood\" data-ga-action=\"body text link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Evan Rachel Wood<\/a> as pop icon <a class=\"sugar-inline-link ga-track\" title=\"Latest photos and news for Madonna\" href=\"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/Madonna\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-category=\"internal click\" data-ga-label=\"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/Madonna\" data-ga-action=\"body text link\" rel=\"noopener\">Madonna<\/a> and &#8220;Abbott Elementary&#8221; star and creator Quinta Brunson because the incomparable <a class=\"sugar-inline-link ga-track\" title=\"Latest photos and news for Oprah Winfrey\" href=\"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/Oprah-Winfrey\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-category=\"internal click\" data-ga-label=\"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/Oprah-Winfrey\" data-ga-action=\"body text link\" rel=\"noopener\">Oprah Winfrey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>    window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\nFB.init({\nappId     : '175338224756',\nstatus    : true, \/\/ check login status\nxfbml     : true, \/\/ parse XFBML\nversion : 'v8.0'\n});\nONSUGAR.Event.fire('fb:loaded');\n};\n\/\/ Load the SDK Asynchronously\n(function(d){\nvar id = 'facebook-jssdk'; if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\nif (typeof scriptsList !== \"undefined\") {\nscriptsList.push({'src': 'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js', 'attrs': {'id':id, 'async': true}});\n}\n}(document));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] &#8220;Weird Al&#8221; Yankovic cemented himself in popular culture after his comedic debut within the late &#8217;70s. The multitalented comic is thought for his inventive parodies of well-liked songs equivalent to Madonna&#8217;s &#8220;Like a Virgin&#8221; and Coolio&#8217;s &#8220;Gangsta Paradise.&#8221; Yankovic has earned quite a few awards and accolades over the course of his profession, together [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12038","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}