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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)

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.

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

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!

Woo!  New tour dates just posted at WeirdAl.com

Presale Info

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.

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.

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!

“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!

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