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[–] [email protected] 202 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Weird Al explicitly gets permission before doing a parody. Usually artists ask/beg him to do them. This comic is BS.

[–] [email protected] 202 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Kelly comics are intentional satire of the political comic style and topics.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

They're really fucking good at it, then.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Kelly is one of the best parody comic creators in the business. I believe he works for The Onion?

[–] booly 47 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The "Stan Kelly" persona itself is a fictional satire. The work is actually done by cartoonist Ward Sutton, whose standard political cartoons under his own name criticize the right wing directly.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

Hell yeah Ward. I didn’t know that, thank you!

[–] ruckblack 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

His self-portrait as a sour boomer grandpa is the icing on the cake.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Wait. So they're not some right wing pundit?

[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

It's more like the Colbert Report back in the day, an exaggerated right winger who is so obviously wrong it's funny.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

The character "Kelly" isn't explicitly right wing, instead he's supposed to be as wrong as possible. As an example rather than "Pro-choice" or "Pro-life" Kelly is "Pro-abortion", because he hates children and thinks they should be aborted before they have a chance to destroy their parents lives. Or the comic where Kelly opposed drug legalization... because police dramas wouldn't have anything write about.

Oddly, Kelly's "wrong as possible" stance does seem to frequently align with right wing politics, for some reason.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago

My favorites are the ones where he’s dedicating a whole comic to some petty personal grievance, like a grocery store being out of a product he had a coupon for.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

They're really good, consistently.

I'm not sure if there's a better archive, but you can find a few more here:

https://theonion.com/the-handmaids-pigtail/

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Are you thinking of Ben Garrison? They're parodying his style.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

I believe I am. I guess I ate the onion

[–] [email protected] 81 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The comic isn't serious

This is the artist for The Onion

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 weeks ago

Al also happily shared the comic yesterday on BlueSky.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago

"Ok, you can have a million dollars, but only if I can give you a car too" 😄

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago

And then they fell madly in love. Madonna was a terrible influence on Al, leading him to a life of debauchery and selfishness, which culminated down to Columbia, where he was involved in a shootout with Pablo Escobar... or so his autobiographical movie told me.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Coolio was pissed that Al parodied him. He regretted it later in life and realized Al was great.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Except for Coolio. Coolio had mad beef.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I remember it was that he felt his managers should have told him he was an idiot more than they misinformed him. He was upset about what they didn't say, not what they said.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

Haha, that's how I know about it too. I just read some interview with Coolio a few weeks ago where he talked about it. The interview was linked here on Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

He sure acted right on his follow up though.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

He does, but he doesn't have to.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I hope Al sees this, because I think he'd think it's hilarious.

[–] [email protected] 89 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago
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[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Hang on. This ain’t a real Kelly, there’s no crying Statue of Liberty.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago

I can’t tell what the moral is without lady liberty crying.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Whew boy people ate the hell out of this onion.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Weird Al actually licenses the songs for parodying because free use is thin ice.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

If Al is so great why did he lose on Jeopardy?

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The video for Fat was awesome.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I haven't exactly been to a large number of big concerts in my life, but still I have to say that Weird Al's was the best. It was late 90s. He played every one of his hits in costume and nailed it every time. For the finale, he buried the front rows (I was in row 2) in fake bubble snow while playing Christmas at Ground Zero. It was gloriously ridiculous. 10/10 experience. Hardest working man in showbiz. UHF was a documentary. (I still haven't seen the new movie. I really should get on that.)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

Music royalties are weird. Somebody that understood it way better than me explained it probably better than I will. From what I remember there is basically a performance, lyrics, and music portion. So when an artist covers a song they only get the performance part. The original artist gets the other two parts(assuming the music/lyrics weren’t written by somebody else). Since Al is redoing the lyrics he gets the performance and lyrics part but he’s still sticking money in the original artists pockets for the music portion. Most artists are plenty happy to have Al use one of their songs.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

If you think this comic is true...

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

It's the law that you can make fun of famous works of art for comedy, social commentary, parody, and just to make fun of them.... Which is very interesting. It's interesting that that was decided and made a law.

Jesters must have the freedom to mock the King.

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