The Weird Al Show

The Weird Al Show
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Created by"Weird Al" Yankovic
Presented by"Weird Al" Yankovic
StarringBrian Haley
Gary LeRoi Gray
Judy Tenuta
Paula Jai Parker
Danielle Weeks
Narrated byBilly West
Country of originUnited States
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes13
Production
Executive producersDick Clark
"Weird Al" Yankovic
Jay Levey
Production locationsNBC Studios Stage 11, Burbank, CA
Running time23 minutes
Production companiesEar Booker Productions
Dick Clark Productions
Original release
NetworkCBS
ReleaseSeptember 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 CBS. 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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