Weird Al Yankovic at the Puyallup fair

My family and I enjoyed a great show at the Puyallup Fair last night. Weird Al Yankovic, who does parody songs based on the latest rock hits, gave fairgoers an energetic, musical and hilarious two-hour-and-fifteen-minute show.

Our family has most of his albums, and we can sing many of his versions of pop songs by heart, so needless to say we loved seeing him. He is a fantastic showman, and made at least ten significant costume changes during the show. He would accomplish these by running an entertaining video on the big screen, which was either a parody interview of a star, or a music video of one of his many hits.

Some of my favorite performances last night were his tune “White and Nerdy”, which is a parody of the rap song “Ridin Dirty.” For this tune he appeared on a segway, and manged to dance on it for the first third of the song.

Other favorites were his two Star Wars hits, “The Saga Begins” which is based on “American Pie,” and “Yoda” which is based on “Lola.” “The Saga Begins” is probably Weird Al’s best work ever, as he puts the entire Star Wars Episode-One story into a single song, which makes both his fans and “Star Wars” fans (and there is a lot of overlap) delighted. My oldest daughter and her friends used to sing this ten minute song over and over, so it was really fun watching Weird Al and his band sing this hit in Star Wars costumes last night.

He dressed up in a funny fat-suit for for “Fat,” a takeoff of “Bad”, but by then my camera battery was running low, so I missed the photograph.

His encore song was a long ballad called Albuquerque, which he rarely performs because it is so hard on his vocal chords. You have to see it to believe it.

Here are some of the pictures I took of him last night: