# Weird Al appreciation in Slate Magazine **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 19, 2006, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-al-appreciation-in-slate-magazine/377131 "2006-10-19T19:43:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sonia\_Montdore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@Sonia\_Montdore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sonia_Montdore)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2006, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-al-appreciation-in-slate-magazine/377131/1 "2006-10-19T19:43:52Z")
Weird Al fans, there’s a brief but good article about him in \*Slate Magazine: \* > **[Twenty-five years of "Weird Al" Yankovic.](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2006/10/twenty-five-years-of-weird-al-yankovic.html)** > > "Weird Al" Yankovic first appeared on television in 1981, wheezing out "Another One Rides the Bus" (his public-transport themed revision of Queen's... ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2006, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-al-appreciation-in-slate-magazine/377131/2 "2006-10-19T19:52:41Z")
> [@](#): > > To the millions of us flitting around the edges of hipness, he is our Geek Bard, our Troubadork Troubadork! Classic! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2006, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-al-appreciation-in-slate-magazine/377131/3 "2006-10-19T21:48:02Z")
You know, although, as the article correctly pointed out, it has been 25 years since Weird Al performed _Another One Rides the Bus_ on _The Tomorrow Show with Tom Joyner_, Al’s first single, _My Bologna_, was released in 1979. So 2006 marks both Al’s 25th year on television and his 27th as a recording artist. That wouldn’t be significant for most recording artists, [but it is for Al.](http://weirdal.0catch.com/txt/27/history27.html) If you’re reading this, Al (and if you are as vain as I am, you probably are), happy anniversaries!