Six Degrees Of "Weird Al" Yankovic

Post by **weird_el** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 1:10 am

Lance Ito was the judge at the OJ Simpson trial
Al had a scene with OJ in Naked Gun 2½

Harold Lloyd

Post by **Bruce the Duck** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 1:50 am

samuraisumo @ Aug 9 2005, 05:48 AM wrote: Bob Stewart was the featured performer at the same Cincinnati radio station where Rosemary cloony got her start.
She is the mother of George Clooney
who was in Batman Forever with Alicia Silverstone
who starred in a few Aerosmith videos
Al parodied them in "Livin In the Fridge."

Boz Scaggs

Um...Alicia Silverstone and George Clooney were NOT in "Batman Forever." You're thinking of that horrible fourth film, "Batman and Robin."

Post by **anthontherun** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 2:31 am

Harold Lloyd supervised a sequence in The Graduate, starring Anne Bancroft.
Anne Bancroft was on The Rosie O'Donnell Show.
Rosie O'Donnell was in The Flinstones movie.
Al's song "Bedrock Anthem" appears on the soundtrack.

Tom Westman

deep_treble · Post by **deep_treble** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 11:06 pm

Tom Westman was the winner of Survivor: Palau
Weird Al sang about the Survivor series in "Couch Potato"
("leech-covered, grub-eating fools on Survivor")

Mos Def

drnick954 · Post by **drnick954** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 12:18 am

Mos Def is in 16 Blocks with Bruce Willis
Bruce Willis was in Armageddon with Liv Tyler
Liv Tyler is the daughter of Steven Tyler
Steven Tyler is the lead singer of Aerosmith, whos song "Livin On The Edge" was parodied by Weird Al.

Chris Parnell

Post by **PManplus65** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 4:44 am

Chris Parnell was Anchorman with Will Ferrell
Will Ferrell was in Elf with Music by Ray Charles
Ray Charles was in Spy Hard.
Weird Al did the Theme for Spy Hard.

Sleepy LaBeef

Post by **Kristine** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 5:08 am

Sleepy LaBeef recorded at Gold Star Studios,
Gold Star Studios is the home of Phil Spector's famous Wall of Sound
Wall of Sound is a song by American Hi-Fi
American Hi-Fi, on 1-6-05, performed in Albequerque
Albequerque is a song by Al

Enya

LadyKatia · Post by **LadyKatia** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 8:10 am

Enya did the song "Far and Away" in the movie of the same name that starred Nicole Kidman. Nicole also starred in Moulin Rouge with Ewan McGregor. Ewan played Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars, Eposides I,II&III. Al wrote "The Saga Begins" from Obi Wan's perspective.

(There's also another LOTR/Aerosmith connection, but I used this one since that was just used).

The late, great Don Knotts

Post by **weird_el** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 8:15 am

They both (Al and Don) did voiceovers for the same episode of Johnny Bravo

Charles Lane

Post by **algonacchick** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 8:16 am

Charles Lamb appeared in an episode of "Mork and Mindy", which starred Robin Williams. Robin, along with Billy Crystal and Whoopi Goldberg, started Comic Relief. Robin introduced Al and Richard Belzer, who did a rap song together for the cause.

Kirk Cameron