Weird Al Yankovic brings Bigger & Weirder tour to Montreal's Place des Festivals July 25
The comedy icon performs free at this year's Just for Laughs festival after four decades of parodies and surprising career longevity.
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Weird Al Yankovic is performing a free outdoor show at the Place des Festivals on July 25 as a major headliner at this year's Just for Laughs festival, bringing his Bigger & Weirder tour to Montreal.
The Sultan of Satire has maintained a career spanning four decades—something few expected when he started out in the 1980s. As Yankovic told an interviewer, record labels initially saw him as "a flash in the pan" with no staying power. Yet he outlasted many of the major stars from that era.
His breakthrough came with "Eat It," his third MTV music video, which catapulted him to overnight fame when the network put it into heavy rotation. "I lost my anonymity," Yankovic recalled. "The next day, I couldn't walk anywhere without people pointing at me and going, 'Hey! It's the Eat It guy!'"
While Yankovic has appeared in films including his own biopic Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, he has no plans to revisit his cult classic film UHF or create a sequel. "If we did a remake or sequel, it would disappoint somebody," he said. "People would say, 'Oh, it's good, but it's not like my memory of it from 40 years ago.'"
