I wonder if anyone notices.
Title has some merit worthy of discussion, comic doesn’t understand Weird Al at all. Not even close to a comparison.
Kind of iffy to post this outside of that context, IMO. Maybe some of the other works from this author are more obvious, but it’s really hard to recognize this one as satire if you don’t already know it.
Weird Al explicitly gets permission before doing a parody. Usually artists ask/beg him to do them. This comic is BS.
Kelly comics are intentional satire of the political comic style and topics.
It’s more like the Colbert Report back in the day, an exaggerated right winger who is so obviously wrong it’s funny.
Kelly is one of the best parody comic creators in the business. I believe he works for The Onion?
Coolio was pissed that Al parodied him. He regretted it later in life and realized Al was great.
I remember an interview where Al was talking about his early career. Madonna asked him “When ya gonna do ‘Like a Surgeon’”? They talked about it, and she said “But only if I can be in the video.” Al, who was MUCH less popular than Madonna at the time, couldn’t say “Okay!” fast enough.
A few weeks ago, I think I read (here on Lemmy!) that he regretted his beef. In fact, I think he said he thought his managers gave him bad information to cause the beef.
Before that I didn’t even know there was any, so please don’t think me any kind of expert on the topic.
I hope Al sees this, because I think he’d think it’s hilarious.
If you think this is true and that creating entirely new lyrics to a song that are both coherent and also funny isn’t a talent, I’d like to hear your parody song. Oh not to mention actually playing an instrument and being able to sing well.
I write parody lyrics all the time, they are childish and incredibly vulgar.
Like the time I off the top of my head changed the lyrics to “I want to break free” to “I want to fuck Steve” and serenaded my buddy Steven. I made it through most of the song with it being pretty close.
I said “I need to write that down” and Steve was like “Nah, spontaneously that shit was funny. Writing it down would just make it weird” I was inclined to agree.