Weird Al has been reliably clean throughout his career, but he’s not above sneaking in the slightest of slight risque jokes. The two that come to mind are:
The lyrics to Word Crimes: At 2:18 he says “you should hire some cunning linguist,” which is obviously a subtle reference to cunnilingus.
The video to Amish Paradise: At 0:54 he’s churning butter by moving a stick up and down. When a woman walks past, he moves the stick up and down faster, which is obviously a suble reference to masturbation.
Which may be a sly reference to a visual from the video for Cyndi Lauper’s “She Bop” – which is all about masturbation, and which came out a year before the album which contained “One More Minute”:
Also, in “Amish Paradise”, there’s a scene where Al’s being heckled by some “English” (non-Amish) people, and he turns around and flips them the bird, which was pixellated on MTV.
Back in the Al TV days, he would make repeated references to butterscotch enemas. I really don’t want to know what, if anything, THAT might have been about.
Al is apparently quite Christian, but, refreshingly for a celeb, he keeps it to himself (his friend Joel Hodgson is as well, and is likewise low-key about it). In a world of Kirk Camerons and Mel Gibsons, it’s refreshing. So, acknowledging my own stereotypes re: prudery, I’m actually kinda stunned at some of the above cites, but good on 'im.
For what it’s worth, in his cover version of the George of the Jungle theme song, I thought for years that he was singing “…and away he slips on his elephant’s shit…” when it’s actually “Then away he’ll schlep on his elephant Shep…” Even as a kid that seemed out of character for him.
I’d never heard that. I am aware of Joel; one of my private-Christian-school teachers went to college with Joel and knew him, thought he was pretty funny even then.
Just here and there. Like I said, he makes virtually no big deal about it. But if you google “Al Yankovic Christian” you’ll find a bunch of tidbits about his membership in something called the Church of Christ, which is such a vague name that googling it’s a bit of a headache.
ETA: I’ve enjoyed Al’s work since I was a kid, even met him a couple of times, and while I’ve been an atheist almost as long, I’ve never gotten preachy vibes from him. I brought it up not to disparage him, but just as a theory as to why he keeps his comedy pretty clean.
A more traditional (viz, focus on liturgy; ancient hymns instead of insipied “praise & worship” ditties; etc.) wing of the Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement. Other arms of the SCRM tend to be what you think of when you think of a Protestant Evangelical, fundamentalist church. @RitterSport is pretty much spot-on with his description. Lutherans with Believers Baptism.
