{"id":2162849,"date":"2025-11-17T21:51:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T21:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2162849"},"modified":"2025-11-17T21:51:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T21:51:04","slug":"weird-al-yankovic-extends-bigger-weirder-tour-into-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/weird-al-yankovic-extends-bigger-weirder-tour-into-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Weird Al\u2019 Yankovic extends Bigger &#038; Weirder tour into 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p>&#8216;Weird Al&#8217; Yankovic tour admat (courtesy of Live Nation)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>\u201cWeird Al\u201d Yankovic<\/strong> has added a new 2026 leg to his successful Bigger &amp; Weirder tour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Originally launched in 2025, the tour had Weird Al playing 75 shows across 67 cities to over 500,000 fans. The new\u00a0leg has him playing\u00a090 North American cities, beginning\u00a0May 26 in Hollywood, Florida, and wrapping Oct. 17 in Milwaukee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWe did 75 shows this year, and the fans weren\u2019t sick of us yet,\u201d Weird Al explained, \u201cso we\u2019re just going to keep on touring until they are!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Weird Al revealed the tour news with a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=L_SR7GvLK58\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:video;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">video<\/a> spoofing the <em>Star Wars<\/em> scene where the mask is lowered down on Darth Vader&#8217;s head. In his clip, Weird Al\u2019s signature curly hair is slowly lowered\u00a0onto his apparent bald head. He also uses &#8220;The Force&#8221; to get a stagehand to bring him boysenberry doughnuts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A complete list of dates can be found at <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.weirdal.com\/tour\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:WeirdAl.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">WeirdAl.com<\/a>. An artist presale begins Tuesday at 10 a.m. local time, with tickets going on sale to the general public Friday at 10 a.m. local time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Weird Al&#8217; Yankovic tour admat (courtesy of Live Nation) \u201cWeird Al\u201d Yankovic has added a new 2026 leg to his successful Bigger &amp; Weirder tour. Originally launched in 2025, the tour had Weird Al playing 75 shows across 67 cities to over 500,000 fans. The new\u00a0leg has him playing\u00a090 North American cities, beginning\u00a0May 26 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2162850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[27786,403820],"class_list":["post-2162849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-live-nation","tag-weird-al"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/\u2018Weird-Al-Yankovic-extends-Bigger-Weirder-tour-into-2026.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2162849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2162851,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162849\/revisions\/2162851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2162850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2162849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2162849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2162849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}