The Weird Al Show (1997)

Genre

comedy television series

Country

United States

Length

1 season, 13 episodes

Rated

TV-Y7

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 11 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Weird Al Yankovic hosts a wacky show-within-a-show from his underground home. It mixes live-action skits, animated shorts, and musical performances for a Saturday morning audience.

sillywhimsicalplayfulzanynostalgicfamily-friendlylightheartedoffbeat

What happens

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 CBS. The show ran for one season, from September 13 to December 6, 1997, with reruns airing until September 26, 1998. 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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