“Weird Al” Yankovic built a career out of making pop music look gloriously ridiculous.
Now, more than four decades after “Eat It,” “Like a Surgeon” and “I Lost on Jeopardy” helped turn him into an MTV star, Yankovic is still taking pop culture seriously enough to make it look very, very stupid.
He brings his Bigger & Weirder 2026 Tour to PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel on July 12.
Accordion-wielding Yankovic will be accompanied by his longtime band and five additional musicians to create a super-sized experience. Fans will be treated to a giant video wall, multiple costume changes and, of course, songs like “White & Nerdy,” according to his website.
Weird Al Yankovic performs on the Which Stage on the third day of the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival at The Farm in Manchester, Tenn., Sunday, June 14, 2026. Yankovic began his set after midnight.
The master of parody returns to the Garden State at a time when touring has become king, a shift he saw coming years ago.
“Even hit albums barely break even. I think most recording artists make most of their money these days from touring and merchandise, not from actual album sales. It used to be the exact opposite, 20 or 30 years ago,” Yankovic said in a 2012 interview.
By then, MTV was no longer the place fans looked to for music and YouTube was the new home for parody and viral comedy. That shift swallowed many artists. But Yankovic adapted. The tours have kept coming. His accordion didn’t go quietly.
A Weird Al show is a crash course in how silly pop music can be and that silliness will come dressed in hard rock, hip-hop, new wave, grunge and polka.
Comic musician “Weird Al” Yankovic
“I try to keep my material as eclectic as possible, so I think that’s one of the reasons that my shows have such multi-generational appeal. There’s pretty much something for everybody,” Yankovic said.
Yankovic isn’t just making fun of songs. He’s making fun of the machinery around them: celebrity, coolness, trends, production, image and the seriousness people attach to pop songs.
“When you remove the cool veneer and just look at the lyrics and look at the song without any of the production and you put it to a polka beat, you realize how ridiculous a lot of these songs are,” Yankovic said.
This article originally appeared on NorthJersey.com: Weird Al Yankovic to play PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel on July 12
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