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Weird Al will host a new bi-weekly web series interviewing celebrities called “Face to Face with Weird Al Yankovic”.  It will debut on April 3rd on the Nerdist YouTube channel.  Check out the teaser below:

[Correction: This series will air every other Tuesday.  Not weekly]

Two big news coming your way…

COMEDY CENTRAL SPECIAL!
Shot at Massey Hall in Toronto on July 16 and directed by legendary music video director Wayne Isham, “Weird Al” Yankovic Live! – The Alpocalypse Tour will debut as an hour-long special on Comedy Central on Oct. 1!

NEW DVD & BLU-RAY!
The full unabridged version of “Weird Al” Yankovic Live! – The Alpocalypse Tour (plus some cool extras) will be available on DVD and Blu-Ray on Oct. 4!

[weirdal.com]

Weird Al Yankovic on municipal naming rights – The Globe and Mail.

Sometimes you find yourself crawling out of bed in the morning, pouring yourself a cup of ambition, and think to yourself “I wonder if I could plaster a billboard on my garage door for cold hard cash?”

Canadian news site “The Globe and Mail” asks Weird Al about his serious thoughts about cities possibly selling naming rights to public properties.

Weird Al Yankovic: Beer Barrel Polka (6/20/11)

…and sadly, Al did not make the list. Al is having a great 2011 so far. We’re around halfway in and already there’s a new album, new book, and new music video out, and new tour on the horizon. It would have been a nice feather in his cap, but I guess it wasn’t meant to be this year.

We wholeheartedly believe Al deserves a spot on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame. We will be nominating Al once again next year, and we will continue to do all we can until Al gets his well-deserved star!

For a full list of Walk Of Fame recipients for 2012, check out this link.

To commemorate the release of Al’s new album, Amazon has a special deal on the mp3 plus the digital copy of the booklet inside all for just $3.99 today only.

Prepare your eyes and maybe even hide the little ones. Mwa ha ha.

So uh, anything new going on with Weird Al lately?

Oh yeah, his new album Alpocalypse will be officially released on Tuesday, June 21st. The music video for the lead song Perform This Way will premiere on Monday, but you can catch a couple sneak previews here and here. According to the latter link, you can catch the full video on VH1′s Big Morning Buzz Live, so set your DVRs! While you’re at it, also set it to record Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Al will be sitting in with the Roots and ?uestLove.

Hey, I hope everyone is doing well. I thought I’d give you an update on a few things going on recently since I haven’t posted here in a while.

1. We’ve nominated Al once again for 2012! The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce is expected to make their decision in June. So cross your fingers, uvula, and pancreas that this is Al’s year.

2. Speaking of, if you haven’t heard by now, at the end of last year, the Hollywood Walk of Fame unexpectedly raised their price to $30,000. That leaves us just over $5,000 short again. Please visit our donation page at www.weirdalstar.com if you can help.

3. We finally got ourselves a Facebook page. So please come over to www.facebook.com/weirdalstar and give us a like, and share with your friends.

4. There’s a great brand new Weird Al tribute album coming out any day now. The album contains over an hour of amazing Weird Al tribute songs as performed by people like MC Frontalot, Shael Riley, Nuclear Bubble Wrap, mc chris, Steve Goodie, Al’s Band, MC Lars and many, many others. You can preorder and get more details over at www.weirdaltribute.com. A portion of their sales are being donated to the Weird Al Star Fund.

5. And speaking of tributes, there another Weird Al Star Fund benefit show planned for July 13 at 8 PM at diPiazza in Long Beach, CA. Raymond & Scum, Tony Goldmark, Throwing Toasters, Dino-Mike, and TV’s Kyle will be performing. More details can be found at www.weirdalstar.com/tributeshow2011.html. A portion of their ticket sales are being donated to the Weird Al Star Fund as well.

That should keep you guys busy until next update. I’ll be in touch if any other big news breaks. Enjoy the ALPOCALYPSE on June 21!

In an amazing turn of events, this post will NOT be about the upcoming Alpocalypse, or even about Lady Gaga.

Nickelodeon is releasing the Yo Gabba Gabba episode that Weird Al starred in, Circus, on DVD on June 14th, 2011. It will also contain three other episodes that… aw who cares? This one’s got Al in it! That’s all you really need to know.

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