Weird Al Puts Together A Rockabilly Scrapbook In “Lame Claim To Fame” Video

We are nearing the end of Weird Al‘s #8videos8days and, in doing so, we’ve moved from parodies of specific songs to genre riffs with a general comedic premise.

“Lame Claim To Fame” is, according to Wikipedia, a “style parody of Southern Culture on the Skids,” and it takes on the guise of the sick bragger in all of us. If you have a story about how you waited on Ryan Reynolds one time or got a high five from Channing Tatum, you’ve earned a place in this pop-up scrapbook.

It isn’t the most inspired or enjoyable of the Mandatory Fun videos that we’ve been given over the past week – it mostly elicits an appreciative “I see what you did there” as he mocks “first” commenters and makes a six degrees of Kevin Bacon joke. The nice thing is, if this doesn’t do it for you, there have been plenty of other Weird Al videos that might.

Tyler Hanan
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One Response to “Weird Al Puts Together A Rockabilly Scrapbook In “Lame Claim To Fame” Video”

  1. Weird Al responds to some critics of his new music video. (link goes to COMIC)

    http://www.creative-news-muses.com/comic/word-crimes/