Sept 15-21 Mockumentary Week: “Ladies and gentlemen, by way of introduction, this is a film about trickery – and fraud. About lies. Tell it by the fireside, in a marketplace, or in a movie. Almost any story is almost certainly some kind of lie. But not this time. No, this is a promise. During the next hour, everything you hear from us is really *true* and based on solid facts.”

This was produced by Weird Al Yankovic’s manager Jay Levey, his friend Hamilton Cloud, and Robert K. Weiss, who had previously produced The Kentucky Fried Movie and The Blues Brothers. This is the life story of Al, mixed with moments that cross over with his videos, like “Ricky,” “I Love Rocky Road,” “Like a Surgeon”, “I Lost On Jeopardy,” “Dare to Be Stupid”, “Midnite Star,” and “One More Minute.”

At one point, Al goes to Michael Jackson’s house, which is the House on Haunted Hill. And hey, Al TV clips!

I was waiting in the express lane
With my twelve items or less
At the checkout counter at the local grocery store
I was only passin’ by

But a paper caught my eye
And I learned a few things
I never knew before
It said

Your pet may be an extra-terrestrial
It said The ghost of Elvis is living in my den
You can learn to cope with stress
And you can beat the IRS

And the Incredible Frog Boy is on the loose again
Ohhh Midnight Star
It’s in the weekly Midnight Star
Aliens from outer space are sleeping in my car
Midnight Star, I wanna know, I wanna know!”

As you can expect, Weird Al is very important to me.

Dick Clark and Rick Derringer were in this. Yes, the man who wrote the entrance music for Demolition.

The world needs more Weird Al. As well as Dr. Demento.

You can watch this on Tubi.