- published: 13 Feb 2010
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Al TV is a series of comedy/music video specials created by and starring singer-songwriter "Weird Al" Yankovic.
The premise of the show is that Yankovic uses his private satellite transmitter to commandeer the airwaves of a music video station in order to show the videos that he wants to watch.
The program is primarily a parody of MTV itself, complete with slogans like "Al-TV: putting the vid in video and the odd in audio!" (Yankovic also continued to make fun of MTV's "moon launch" inserts well after the network had discontinued the original versions.) There are also commercials for imaginary products (many using the tagline "You Won't Look Like A Jerk!"), fake interviews with celebrities, comments on the latest music news, letters from fans and bizarre non-sequiturs.
But Al-TV's main focus is music videos: his own, and others of an unusual bent, many of whom would never elsewise be seen on MTV or any other network. Al's own work consists of song parodies and "cover polkas", which merely edit together the videos from the original artists with Al's music and singing synchronized to the video segments. Al occasionally uses this tactic for certain song parodies for which no video was made.
Cuando el te haga sufrir
y te rompa el corazón,
Nunca olvides que aquí
te espera mi amor.
Cuando no puedas sonreír
y mueras de dolor.
Ven a mi
Ven a mi
Cuando el te haga sufrir
y te rompa el corazón,
Nunca olvides que aquí
te espera mi amor.
Cuando no puedas sonreír
y mueras de dolor.
Ven a mi
Ven a mi
Ven a mi
Ven a mi