{"id":2163854,"date":"2025-11-18T07:33:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T07:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2163854"},"modified":"2025-11-18T07:33:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T07:33:39","slug":"comedy-artist-weird-al-to-play-at-champlain-valley-expo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/comedy-artist-weird-al-to-play-at-champlain-valley-expo\/","title":{"rendered":"Comedy artist Weird Al to play at Champlain Valley Expo"},"content":{"rendered":"

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ESSEX JUNCTION, Vt. (ABC22\/FOX44<\/a>) \u2013 Alfred Matthew Yankovic, better known as Weird Al, is the best-selling comedy musician in history.<\/p>\n

On Monday, he announced on social media his 2026 \u201cBigger and Weirder\u201d tour, including an appearance in the Green Mountain State.<\/p>\n

For fans of the artist behind songs including \u201cAmish Paradise\u201d and \u201cEat It\u201d (parodies of Coolio\u2019s \u201cGangsta\u2019s Paradise\u201d and Michael Jackson\u2019s \u201cBeat It,\u201d respectively), he will be at the Champlain Valley Expo in Essex Junction on Friday, July 24, 2026.<\/p>\n

Tom Lehrer, song satirist and mathematician, dies at 97 <\/a><\/p>\n

The performance will follow ones earlier the same week in Lenox, Massachusetts and Gilford, New Hampshire.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you missed it the first time around \u2013 or if for some crazy reason you want to see it again \u2013 now\u2019s your chance!!\u201d wrote Weird Al.<\/p>\n

His 2025 tour bypassed Vermont \u2013 the closest date was in Saratoga Springs.<\/p>\n

Ticket pre-sale will start on his website<\/a> Tuesday at 10:00 a.m.<\/p>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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