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Celebrating His Billboard Cover on ‘Tonight Show,’ Weird Al Throws It Back to When We Called Him ‘Weird Owl’

Weird Al Yankovic celebrated his appearance on the cover of Billboard during his latest appearance on 'The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.'

Yankovic also shared one of the ideas that never got Prince’s sign-off: a parody of the funk-pop star’s hit song “1999,” which would’ve been called “$19.99” and written in the style of a TV infomercial. Though Prince was never down for his songs to get the Weird Al treatment, the comedian has made joke-filled versions of hits originally by Michael Jackson, Lady Gaga, Queen, Police and countless other stars over the course of his decades-long career. Even Don McLean, who is supposedly hard to convince on the parody front, allowed Yankovic to put his own spin on “American Pie,” telling Billboard of the resulting Star Wars-themed “The Saga Begins,” “I thought it was better than the original.”

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