These are the liner notes to the "Weird Al" Yankovic box set which came out in 1994, as written by Dr. Demento.
We call him Weird Al. //

Whatever you choose to call him, Alfred Matthew Yankovic is rock music's greatest humorist. Since his first LP came out in 1983 he has sold more funny records, CDs and tapes than any other person on this planet.

That's doubly remarkable because funny music, the music I play on my radio show, is a genre with more than its share of one-hit wonders. Except for the late Frank Zappa (who would rather have you remember him for his serious music) you have to go all the way back to Spike Jones in the 1940s to find another creator of funny music who was as consistently successful and brilliant for as long a time as Al has been.