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Can’t make it to any concerts this year?  Seriously?  Not one of these?  Aw man, sorry to hear that.

Well, you can still get your concert fix thanks to NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series and even feel like you’re standing right next to him as he sings.  Here is Weird Al and the entire band playing “You Don’t Love Me Anymore,” “Good Old Days” and my favorite, an acoustic version of “CNR.”   Graciously, NPR also provides an audio version for download at the top of the page.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127983640&ft=1&f=1039

The Hanson video is out now!  See if you can recognize where Weird Al is:

At long last, the most epic-est, big budget-est, CGI-est motion picture ever to hit the theaters since “The Smurfs vs. Avatar”, it’s “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story“.  From the brilliant minds at FunnyOrDie.com.

Not sure how long this will last, but in honor of Charles Nelson Reilly’s birthday on January 13th, you can insert yourself into the JibJab video for free over at http://sendables.jibjab.com/sendables/203322/weird_al_charles_nelson_reilly

Looks you still have to pay $4.99 to download it and save it on your computer at which point you can burn it to DVD or put it on your iPod, or whatever.  But you can still share the creation for free via email, Facebook, your blogs, etc.  Spiffy!

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

An all-star comedy Christmas Carol
Directed & Edited by Scott Aukerman

Sung by the Comedy Death-Ray Xmas Nativity Choir (feat. Paul F. Tompkins, R.O. Manse, Tig Notaro, Rob Huebel, Patton Oswalt, Mike Phirman, Jimmy Pardo, Brian Posehn & Scott Aukerman, Garfunkel & Oates, Aimee Mann, Chris Hardwick, Paul Scheer & June Diane Raphael, Doug Benson, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Nick Thune, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Cracked Out, Dragon Boy Suede, Natasha Leggero, Thomas Lennon & Ed Helms)

If you’ve heard of the term “Auto-tune” in relation to music and wondered just what the heck it is, you’re in luck.   Weird Al helps out the folks at KnowYourMeme.com in explaining the phenomenon and its growing popularity on the internet:

Know Your Meme is a great site that explains to you the popularity and origins of things like viral videos, image macros, and more.

Phew, been a busy week.  I’ll just gather up all the video links into one nice group here…

• Jimmy Fallon interview
• Performing CNR
• Special performance of Good Old Days
• Interview on CNN (thanks to wrdalfn for heads up)
• Kevin Pollak Chat Show Archives – In case they change the link again, I’ll just link to the overall archives.  It’s a really great, well-researched interview that lasts about two hours.  On the bottom right of the page, they do provide links to download the audio and the video of the entire session.  Awesome!

Hope you got to see Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night.  If not, the entire episode should show up in their archives very soon.  In the meantime, if you live in the US, you can watch a web-only exclusive video of Weird Al singing “Good Old Days” with The Roots during which he can be seen briefly tweeting something.  heh.

Plus check out the Late Night blog for this fun read:
5 Things About “Weird” Al Yankovic That I’m Not Yankin’ Your Chain About

Just a friendly reminder, watch tonight’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (Wed Oct 28) for Al’s performance of CNR.

Also, it looks like the video archive of Kevin Pollak’s Chat Show with Weird Al is back online again.
Check it out at:  http://kevinpollakchatshow.blip.tv/file/2779420/

Update: Kevin Pollak link has been changed again.