Look, food is funny, and no one knows this better than Weird AlYankovic
There is a reason a pie in the face, slipping on a banana peel, and getting pelted with tomatoes are shorthands for comedy at large. Food is funny. It’s slippery and messy and makes you burp and fart. So of course it’s a frequent inspiration for the world’s premier parody artist, Weird Al Yankovic., the absolutely real not ridiculous or wildly fictitious telling of Yankovic’s life,
. So we decided to look back on his illustrious, decades-long career for all the places where he was inspired by food. Below, a ranking of his best efforts.As the movie notes, this riff on Michael Jackson’s “Bad” is a stale joke that’s best left in the past.Another song where fatness is the base of the humor, but we can’t deny that “Grapefruit Diet” is just a fun phrase to sing to the tune of “Zoot Suit Riot.
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