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Here’s another TV alert.  If you get the Biography Channel, then make sure to watch William Shatner’s Raw Nerve on Tuesday January 5 at 10pm ET for a half-hour interview with Weird Al.

Host William Shatner sits down with Grammy Award-winning artist Weird Al Yankovic. Shatner talks to Weird Al about his early days as a DJ on college radio and his turnabout from architecture student to parodying famous hits. Yankovic discusses the tragic death of his parents, his concerns about the environment and the oddities of being in the music industry.

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Hey kiddies, watch “Web Soup” on G4 tonight at 7pm Eastern for “The Golden Download Awards” episode.

Host Chris Hardwick highlights the best of the best and worst viral videos that the internet has to offer, and provides humorous impromptu commentary, themed segments to showcase certain video styles, surprise guests and recurring characters.

Weird Al is going to be one of the surprise guests (shhhhhh!).  If you don’t get to catch it tonight, it will re-air multiple times.  Just check your tv listings

Signed “Weird Al” Yankovic Guitar Hero 5 and His New Hits CD!

Prize: One winner, see details!
Exceptions: See official rules for eligibility
Number of winners allowed: 1
Ends: Sunday January 3rd 2010

Comedy and music legend “Weird Al” Yankovic hosted a Game with Fame session this week on Xbox LIVE. Even if you missed your chance to participate, you can still enter to win a sweet Xbox LIVE prize pack including: an Xbox 360 console, autographed copy of Guitar Hero® 5 (used in the session) and a copy of his new album!

You need to register at the site first to enter the contest.

Weird Al will be ham for the holidays

Interview from the A.V. Club on the upcoming RiffTrax LIVE: Christmas Shorts-Stravaganza event, the Essential Weird Al Yankovic compilation, his past Christmas songs, and his holiday plans in general.  Al mentions “There’s the yearly bobbing for pork, of course.”  Well, since Al is vegetarian, I’m guessing it’s some sort of tofu pork… maybe it’s called TOFORK.   If there’s no such thing, I have the perfect slogan for this new product: “TOFORK: It’s exactly as tasty as it sounds.”   Where’s my royalties?

If you have an Xbox 360 and a Gold Membership, you could take part in their “Game with Fame” event and play Guitar Hero 5 with Weird Al this Tuesday, December 15th from 7-9pm ET.

Personally I’ve never done one of these Game with Fame events, so I’m not sure how it works.  Can anybody fill me in on what happens?  I believe Weird Al magically appears as a hologram in everybody’s living room, goes through all your cabinets and drawers, eats everything in your fridge (that’s vegetarian of course), and shaves obscure SAT vocabulary words into the fur of your pets.  That’s what I read on Wikipedia anyway.

Weird Al performs “I Bleed” with The Pixies for a Rock and Roll Comedy Benefit for baby Winston Bertrand:

Congrats to Weird Al for getting a Grammy nomination for Best Comedy Album for “Internet Leaks“.  Not bad, eh?  And that’s just half an album.  Imagine the mega-trophies he’ll get when the rest of it hits the public!!!

In case you’re curious, here’s who Al is going up against and their albums:

• Back From The Dead – Spinal Tap
• A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift Of All! – Stephen Colbert
• My Weakness Is Strong – Patton Oswalt
• Suckin’ It For The Holidays – Kathy Griffin
• Tall, Dark & Chicano – George Lopez

Congrats to all the nominees!