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March 06, 2010

2010 Streamy Awards

Weird Al has earned a 2010 Streamy Awards nomination for Best Guest  Star in a Web Series for his appearance on Know Your Meme (explaining the phenomenon of Auto-tune).  Congratulations Al!  Winners will be announced via a live broadcast on April 11.

(Thanks  Greg)

http://yankovic.org/blog/2009/11/11/know-your-meme/
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February 27, 2010

Tour info

One new tour date has been added, and one date change:

July 2 – Kettering, OH – Fraze Pavilion For The Performing Arts

and the California State Fair date in Sacramento has been changed to Aug 1.

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February 24, 2010

The Mad House

Received this note recently:

I’m with a little radio show called The Mad House. Well I wanted to let you know that we have an interview with Jim West on March 17th. The shows website is blogtalkradio.com/the-mad-house and our myspace is http://www.myspace.com/themadhouseradio. The show airs Wednesdays @ 8 pm pt.

Thanks,
-Ron

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February 23, 2010

Yo Gabba Gabba!

Al will be kicking off the new season of the award-winning Nickelodeon show “Yo Gabba Gabba!”

Monday, March 8 – “Circus” – Weird Al Yankovic plays the circus ringmaster; Sarah Silverman teaches the “Time to Mime” dancey dance and Black Kids sing the original Yo Gabba Gabba! song, “We Love Clowns.” The episode also features Jack McBrayer and Paul Scheer telling a “Knock Knock” joke and Mark Mothersbaugh in his “Marks’ Magic Pictures” segment.

Yo Gabba Gabba’s New Season Coming Soon!

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February 15, 2010

New 2010 Tour Dates

Woo!  New tour dates just posted at WeirdAl.com

June 16 Rehoboth Beach, DE Rehoboth Beach Convention Center
June 17 Reading, PA Sovereign Performing Arts Center
June 21 Verona, NY Turning Stone Casino
June 24 Westbury, NY The Theatre at Westbury
June 25 Glenside, PA Keswick Theatre
June 26 Gilford, NH Meadowbrook US Cellular Pavilion
June 27 Holmdel, NJ PNC Bank Arts Center
June 29 Milwaukee, WI Summerfest
July 9 Merrillville, IN Star Plaza Theatre
July 31 Redmond, OR Deschutes County Fair
Aug 2 Sacramento, CA California State Fair

Presale Info

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February 10, 2010

Al’s wants your setlist suggestions.

After years and years of playing the same songs on stage, Al is going to let YOU suggest some songs he add into the setlist of his next concert tour. He made this announcement via a tweet.

I’m putting together the set list for my 2010 Tour tonight – which songs (other than the super-obvious ones) would you like to see included?

So if you’ve always wanted to hear Franks 2000″ TV, or pull some of those musty older songs he did EONS ago like “Brady Bunch” or even something a little more obscure like Mr Frump in the Iron Lung or even Still Billy Joel To Me, now is your chance! Just tweet to @alyankovic and watch your request be ignored!

Don’t send in too many suggestions though. Al and Suzanne should be celebrating their 9th anniversary instead of looking at your pitiful suggestions. We here at the Yank Blog with them a Happy Anniversary and hope they have many more.

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January 27, 2010

Weird Al Tour Begins!

Woohoo!  It’s official, the next Weird Al national tour has begun.   The first concert booked is in Costa Mesa, California at the Pacific Amphitheater on August 13th, 2010.   Go to http://tixx1.artistarena.com/weirdal/ to sign up for the special internet pre-sale to get early access to purchasing tickets.

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January 26, 2010

Happy Birthday Steve Jay

We here at Yank Blog, Inc would like to wish a very happy birthday to Stephen Jay, the best bass guitarist in Weird Al’s band.

Happy Birthday buddy!

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January 25, 2010

Al’s New Project

“I’ve just signed a production deal with Cartoon Network.”  –Weird Al Yankovic

WHOA!!!  Al just broke news of a new project he’s working on over at his blog:

http://alyankovic.wordpress.com/2010/01/25/this-thing-im-doing/

How cool is that? Although I was really hoping for an action-packed documentary about Winston Churchill starring Jackie Chan.  Oh well, perhaps someday.

Oh, and Al also very casually drops a subtle hint about [MESSAGE REDACTED BY ALIENS].   Wow!!!  I can hardly wait!

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January 22, 2010

Sketchfest

This Saturday (Jan 23rd), Weird Al talks with that guy he’s always with.  You know who I’m talking about.  Yeah THAT guy… AGAIN!  You’d think they would have talked about everything there is to talk about by now.  But NOOOOO.  What?  No I’m not jealous… shut up! Well if you’re in the area then head on over to Cobb’s Comedy Club and watch them talk about… um… stuff.  Then Al will introduce a showing of UHF at midnight at the Clay Theatre.  Nice!

http://www.cobbscomedyclub.com/calendar.html#weirdal

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