Tonight: Weird Al Yankovic Honored at First Ever Comedy Music All of Fame
Music has always had a role in comedy but the genre is more popular than ever before, so the timing is perfect for IFC and College Humor to get together to create the Comedy Music Hall of Fame. Weird Al Yankovic will be honored with an induction into the new HoF, in a presentation promising to be absurd.
Paul F Tompkins will host the event airing tonight on IFC with performances by Tenacious D, Bridget Everett, The Gregory Brothers, Trevor Moore, CDZA, Rachel Bloom, Patrick Noth, Steel Panther, and Lil Dicky. Plus, the CollegeHumor Originals team will imagine what it would be like “If Canadians Made A Rap Diss Video”.
Performer EpicLloyd from Epic Rap Battles of History spoke about what Weird Al means to him, saying “I remember listening to ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic in my bedroom. I would listen to Dr. Demento with my little radio against my headboard and a blank tape, and when “Yoda” would come on I’d be like, ‘Met him in a swamp down in Dagobah where it bubbles all the time like a giant carbonated SO-DA! SO-DA!'”
Bridget Everett agreed. “Weird Al for me is the king. He made the 80’s for me,” she said. “Imagine growing up in your bedroom and you love music and you love funny shit…he put them together and he showed a bunch of weird kids that you can dream big and do weird shit and be Weird Al, and that’s pretty cool.” Everett also had some advice for aspiring comedy musicians. “If I was talking to somebody making comedy music in their bedroom, I would say turn off all the lights, get really drunk, tell yourself stuff you wouldn’t tell anyone else, and then make it into a song. That’s a hit.”
For more information go to College Humor and make sure you’re watching tonight on IFC at 10pm ET/PT and at 11pm on collegehumor.com.
