Brian Haley Gary LeRoi Gray Judy Tenuta Paula Jai Parker Danielle Weeks
Narrated by
Billy West
Country of origin
United States
No. of seasons
1
No. of episodes
13
Production
Executive producers
Dick Clark "Weird Al" Yankovic Jay Levey
Production locations
NBC Studios Stage 11, Burbank, CA
Running time
23 minutes
Production companies
Ear Booker Productions Dick Clark Productions
Original release
Network
CBS
Release
September 13 (1997-09-13) – December 6, 1997 (1997-12-06)
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The Weird Al Show is an American television show hosted by "Weird Al" Yankovic. Produced in association with Dick Clark Productions and taped at NBC Studios, it aired on Saturday mornings on the CBS TV network. The show ran for one season, from September to December 1997. The show was released on DVD on August 15, 2006.
The show is framed as a "show-within-a-show", with Yankovic, starring as himself, living in an underground home while working as a television show host. It uses a combination of live-action skits with numerous guests, animated shorts, and musical performances by Yankovic and other guest bands. CBS had greenlit the show from Yankovic, seeking content for its required Educational/Informative programming block and framed similarly to Pee-Wee's Playhouse. Because of this, Yankovic and his writers struggled with developing content appropriate for children's programming that met CBS's expectations while still within Yankovic's form of visual and adult humor.
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well as cameos in the music videos for "Smells Like Nirvana" and "Bedrock Anthem" by "WeirdAl" Yankovic, and on TheWeirdAlShow. He played "Jack Benson"...
television series such as Miami Vice and TheWeirdAlShow. In 2006, he appeared on British television, as a guest on the panel game 8 Out of 10 Cats. Philips...
Peaks, On the Air, The WeirdAlShow, Mad About You, Pacific Blue, and The Drew Carey Show. His other film roles included the part of a minor league baseball...
instructor and abusive host of a TV game show called Wheel of Fish. He later reprised this role on theWeirdAlShow. Watanabe appeared on Sesame Street from...
also guest-starred in an episode of TheWeirdAlShow. In 1985, he and Mull joined up again for the mockumentary The History of White People in America...
Kricfalusi's departure) and the announcer for the "Log" ads (a voice West would use years later as the narrator for TheWeirdAlShow). According to West, he...
image, on TheWeirdAlShow. The following year, he once again parodied himself on the Fox show MADtv. He also did a cameo appearance in the movie Frezno...
is the brother of identical twin actresses Tia Mowry and Tamera Mowry and is known for his role on theshow Smart Guy as the main character TJ on The WB...
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variety shows from the mid 1980s to mid 2000s. His only credited performance as an actor was "The Obligatory Holiday Episode" of TheWeirdAlShow (playing...
spot on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson on May 15, 1974. He was also a regular on Keep on Truckin'. He guest-starred on TheWeirdAlShow as a guy...
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