“WEIRD AL” YANKOVIC THE MANDATORY WORLD TOUR VICTORY THEATRE- TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 7:30 PM

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Evansville, IN – Few would have guessed that “Weird Al” Yankovic, who as a shy, accordion-playing teenager got his start sending in homemade tapes to the Dr. Demento Radio Show, would go on to become the biggest-selling comedy recording artist in history with over 12 million album sales.

In support of his 14th studio album Mandatory Fun, Weird Al, along with his band of over three decades, will be back on the road in 2016 for The Mandatory World Tour. The album features parodies of some of the biggest hits of the past year, including Pharrell Williams’ “Happy” (“Tacky”), Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” (“Word Crimes”), Lorde’s “Royals” (“Foil”), Iggy Azalea’s “Fancy” (“Handy”) and Imagine Dragons’ “Radioactive” (“Inactive”). The album also features several inspired originals and pastiches (“Lame Claim to Fame,” “Sports Song,” “My Own Eyes,” “Mission Statement,” “First World Problems” and “Jackson Park Express”) along with Al’s latest accordion-fueled medley, “NOW That’s What I Call Polka!”

Mandatory Fun debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top 200 album chart. This is the first time that a comedy album has debuted at #1 on the chart in history, and the first time that a comedy album has reached the top of the chart in over 50 years (the last one
being Allan Sherman’s 1963 release My Son, the Nut). It was also Al’s personal best sales week ever, as well as the largest sales week for any comedy album since 1994.