Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music and video game platforms this week. In my interview with Yankovic and Radcliffe, Yankovic said “Weird” “is funny because it shouldn’t exist.” “Weird,” Roku’s first original film, streams Friday via the streaming device. The Netflix sequel “Enola Holmes 2,” debuting Friday, …
“Weird Al” Yankovic has made a lot of friends. Indeed, in an industry where everyone acts like your friend and few are, the pop parody icon was able to pull together a murderer’s row of talent for Weird: The Al Yankovic Story. Dropping today on the Roku Channel, the movie is very, very loosely based on the accordion player’s life …
In 2010, comedian and TV writer Eric Appel directed a short video for the website Funny or Die: a fake trailer for a nonexistent biopic of the pop-song parodist “Weird Al” Yankovic. A poolside industry party hosted by Al’s real-life mentor, the radio host Dr. Demento, and attended by such ’80s luminaries as Gallagher, Pee-wee Herman, and the growly-voiced DJ …
LOADING ERROR LOADING Actor Daniel Radcliffe captures the essence of Grammy-winning comedian and parody artist “Weird Al” Yankovic in the new trailer for the forthcoming biopic “Weird.” In a teaser trailer released Tuesday for the Roku original film, Radcliffe sports Yankovic’s tight Afro curls and thick mustache, and appears bare-chested onstage with an accordion. When the news of Radcliffe’s upcoming …