During his long and illustrious tenure as rock 'n' roll's supreme parodist and its reigning King of the Accordion, "Weird Al" Yankovic has always had his finger firmly planted on the pulse of popular culture. He has amassed an extensive catalogue of memorable send-ups and original tunes and has been honored with two Grammy Awards (eight nominations), 20 Gold and Platinum awards in the U.S. and Canada, a four-CD boxed set retrospective, his own feature film, three best-selling home videos, several television specials for MTV, Showtime and the Disney Channel and now his very own network series. He has garnered consistent critical acclaim for the inventive music videos that have made him famous throughout the world, and is history's most prolific and successful comedy artist, having sold more funny albums than any other person on the planet. Al's most recent album, Bad Hair Day, is his 10th studio project (his fourth as producer) and represents his seventh platinum award. The disc, released in March of 1996, spawned the smash-hit first single, "Amish Paradise," a take-off of Coolio's mega-hit and Grammy Award-winning tale of urban life, "Gangsta's Paradise." The original tunes that stylishly color Bad Hair Day include the irrepressibly quirky "Everything You Know is Wrong," the Seattle-flavored "Callin' In Sick," the street-corner doo-wop of "Since You've Been Gone," the Elvis Costello-styled bitterness of "I'm So Sick of You," and the demented Christmas rocker, "The Night Santa Went Crazy." In a 17-year career chock full of notable hits, Bad Hair Day quickly became Al's highest-charting, fastest-selling album thus far. It spent a total of 56 weeks on Billboard's Top 200, where it peaked at No. 14, and has sold more than 1.7 million units. And 1997 is the year that Al got his own television series. Debuting August 16 on CBS, "The Weird Al Show," a half-hour comedy/variety show produced by Dick Clark Productions, aired on Saturday mornings. Taking place in Al's subterranean cave dwelling miles below the surface of the earth, the weekly series mixed sketch comedy, animation, celebrity guest appearances and musical performance with a running storyline in each episode to help promote a light educational message. The first Saturday morning show in many years created to appeal to both kids and adults, "The Weird Al Show" stood as the cornerstone of CBS' Saturday morning line-up.

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