It’s been 37 years in the making! “Weird Al” Yankovic is bringing his classic comedy UHF back to the big screen for one night only at The Greek Theatre in Los Angeles on Saturday, October 31. And for the first time ever, the film’s original score will be performed live on stage by a full orchestra, conducted by none other than the score’s composer John Du Prez, accompanying the film.

And to polish off the night, following the movie there will be a Q&A with Weird Al and special surprise guests.

According to the original Orion Pictures press release: “George Newman (Yankovic) has an imagination that works overtime. But George himself can’t hold a job more than 24 hours. Then one day his Uncle Harvey wins a tiny UHF television station in a poker game, and names George its new manager on the grounds that nobody could screw up things at the station any worse than they already are.”

And the rest is comedy history.

Starring “Weird Al” Yankovic, Kevin McCarthy, Michael Richards (pre-Seinfeld), Fran Drescher (pre-The Nanny), David Bowe, Gedde Wattanabe, Billy Barty, Anthony Geary, Trinidad Silva, Stanley Brock, John Paragon, Vance Colvig, Sue Ane Langdon, David Proval, Emo Philips, and Victoria Jackson. Co-written by Al Yankovic and Jay Levey, directed by Jay Levey, produced by Gene Kirkwood, John Hyde, and Gray Frederickson.

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“Weird Al” Yankovic is a 5-time Grammy Award-winning musician, producer, writer, actor and satirist best known for his indelible song and music video parodies such as “Amish Paradise,” “Eat It,” “Smells Like Nirvana,” “White & Nerdy,” and “Word Crimes.” The biggest-selling comedy recording artist of all time, his last album Mandatory Fun was the first comedy album in history to debut at #1 on the Billboard chart. His movie WEIRD: The Al Yankovic Story (which he produced and co-wrote) starred Daniel Radcliffe as Al, and received 8 nominations and 2 wins at the 2023 Emmy Awards. He is currently out on his Bigger & Weirder Tour, where he has been selling out massive venues such as LA’s Kia Forum, Red Rocks and Madison Square Garden. With a storied career spanning nearly five decades, Weird Al’s legend has earned him a dedicated worldwide fan base and has forever established his status as a pop culture icon.

A Grammy Award-winning composer, John Du Prez has scored over 20 feature films including A Fish Called Wanda, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles I-III, Once Bitten & The Meaning of Life. A Trevelyan Scholar at Christ Church, Oxford (Oriental Studies) John worked as a Music Lecturer at London University until 1979 when he entered the film industry composing additional music for Monty Python’s Life of Brian. Working frequently with Monty Python & scoring movies for George Harrison’s Handmade Films, he also played trumpet on many hits with the UK salsa band Modern Romance. After scoring A Fish Called Wanda in 1988 John expanded to America where he scored the first three TMNT movies and “Weird Al” Yankovic’s UHF. In 2001 he co-wrote Monty Python’s Spamalot with Eric Idle which won the 2005 Tony Award for Best Musical. He conducted Not the Messiah with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at Royal Albert Hall for Monty Python’s 40th Anniversary and was music director for Python’s 2014 O2 Arena concerts. He then scored the Bafta Award-winning TV animation series The Clangers.