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Everything You Need To Know About The Weird Al Biopic · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Daniel Radcliffe is best
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Speaker 1: known for playing Harry Potter, but for his next role,
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Speaker 1: he'll be playing that clown prince of pop music, Weird
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Speaker 1: Al Yankovic, and Al must approve of the casting because
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Speaker 1: he actually co wrote the script based on his own life,
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Speaker 1: called Weird the Al Yankovic Story. The master of musical
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Speaker 1: parody is lampoon tons of pop hits over the years,
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Speaker 1: like turning Michael Jackson's Beat It into eat At Madonna's
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Speaker 1: Like a Virgin into Like a Surgeon. But his success
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Speaker 1: is no joke, as he also shares where company with
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Speaker 1: both of those artists. He's the only artist outside of
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Speaker 1: m J. Madonna to have top forty hits in each
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Speaker 1: of the past four decades. According to Deadline, Weird the
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Speaker 1: Al Yankovic Story is expected to shoot later this year
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Speaker 1: and will stream exclusively on the Roku channel that's Direct
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Speaker 1: from Hollywood.