If you are like me, then Huey Lewis and the News’ Hip to be Square was forever ruined for you after you saw American Psycho. Well FunnyOrDie got Huey Lewis to recreate that infamous scene with Weird Al Yankovic as his Jared Leto and once again I can listen to that song. Unfortunately now I am going to have a problem listening to I Want a New Drug the same way.
Seriously that recreation is as genius as the movie that starred Christian Bale in back in 2000.
I wonder how long Huey Lewis has wanted to do this? The bit and what he did to Weird Al.
In case you don’t remember that scene from American Psycho, you watch can how perfectly Huey Lewis copied the original version below.
Back in 1985 Weird Al Yankovic sang Like a Surgeon and yesterday he needed one. The singer got his gallbladder removed and he live Tweeted the experience. As you can see from the pictures he had a better doctor than the one he sang about almost 30 years ago and I am happy about that. Who else can parody songs as well as does it? We need those tunes to keep singers in check!
Weird Al Yankovic Tweeted the above photo and said, “Whew… thought I lost this. Finally I can sleep again!” Maybe it is his hair, but I always thought he was Team Jacob as compared to Team Edward?
Seriously it is a New Moon for me to find out that he is such a huge Twilight fan. Too bad the series is coming to an end because I would sink my teeth into any song he would’ve written for the soundtrack.
Weird Al Yankovic is in town for Sunday’s Grammys, which he has not one but two nominations, and because of that he was finally able to make his first appearance on The Late Late Show. In fact the singer told Craig Ferguson that in a way he is responsible for the Scot hosting the show. When the two met 13 years ago Weird Al told him he was wasting his talents acting on The Drew Carey Show and should be hosting a late night show on CBS, and yet it took him over 7 years to be on something he said should happen. Well there was a lot of blame dealt out and one curse word used over and over again to explain their frustration. Then after the fourth time, Weird Al pointed out that his awwwwdorable 8 year old was in the green room watching the unedited feed and he would have to explain what that word means. Then after that word was not uttered again for the rest of the night except by little Nina.
So why so much tension about it, you see Weird Al Yankovic never heard from Craig Ferguson’s people and Craig’s people assumed that Weird Al was two busy touring and the two assumed the other one didn’t like them. Well even though there was a huge miscommunication about it, it all eventually worked out and the two had a funny chat on the CBS show yesterday at 12:37a.
When was all said and done, Weird Al performed TMZ, his take on Taylor Swift’s You Belong to Me. If ever a song needed to be sung on a late night show in Los Angeles, it is that song. See how as Yankovic said, he makes every song better. I tend to agree.
Before Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer were competing for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar, they were both part of an Ask Al segment. Melissa who was 29 and Octavia who was 27 look the same now as they did in that 1999 TV special. Isn’t it great that the two Oscar nominees whose nominated roles dealt with funny sh!t scenes, both got their start in a Weird Al bit?
BTW when Weird Al Yankovic posted that video he though that only The Help actress was in, but when his fans watched it they let him know that the Bridesmaids star was in it too.
