Fresh off the success of his newest album Mandatory Fun, Weird Al Yankovic took some time to stop by the 2014 Emmy Awards earlier this evening to parody some of our favorite television show theme songs of today.
Touching on Mad Men (AMC), Scandal (ABC), Homeland (Showtime), Modern Family (ABC) and Game of Thrones (HBO), everyone's favorite parodist added a fantastic musical element to the strictly-television-themed awards ceremony.
A team of backup dancers aided Yankovic's performance during each bit. Even former Saturday Night Live player and current Brooklyn Nine-Nine star Andy Samberg (who introduced the comedy-musician alongside host Seth Meyers) stopped by dressed as HBO's oh, so hated King Joffrey.
The "Tacky" and "Word Crimes" singer delighted the audience when he sang about the fact that Jon Hamm has never won an Emmy award despite his many nominations, the eccentric cast of Modern Family, and even the fact that President Fitzgerald Grand III from Scandal was that guy in Ghost. Yep, THAT guy!
Watch Weird Al's epic Emmy performance below:
The Emmy performance isn't the first parody video we've recently been seeing from Yankovic, who famously released an impressive number of videos to go along with tracks from Mandatory Fun, including the aforementioned "Word Crimes" and "Tacky," and also "Foil," "First World Problems" and "Sports Song."
Yankovic also just found himself with his first No. 1 hit on Billboard's Top 200 with Mandatory Fun. He spoke with Music Times just before his album release. Check it out here.
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