--- title: Weird Al Yankovic Video Lame Claim to Fame Mocks Celebrity Name Drop description: Latest Weird Al video mocks lame celebrity name-dropping. canonical: https://time.com/3012624/weird-al-video-claim-to-fame-celebrity-name-dropping/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-07-21T14:35:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:11:48.718Z og:title: WATCH: Weird Al's New Song Makes Fun of Your Lame Celebrity Name Dropping og:description: He's not impressed that you stayed in the same hotel as Zooey Deschanel once og:url: https://time.com/3012624/weird-al-video-claim-to-fame-celebrity-name-dropping/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: WATCH: Weird Al's New Song Makes Fun of Your Lame Celebrity Name Dropping twitter:description: He's not impressed that you stayed in the same hotel as Zooey Deschanel once twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Weird Al's New Song Makes Fun of Your Lame Celebrity Name Dropping by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jul 21, 2014 2:35 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jul 21, 2014 2:35 PM UTC Well, “Weird Al” Yankovic is making good on his promise to release[ eight new videos](http://time.com/2994653/review-the-fun-in-weird-al-yankovics-new-album-mandatory-fun/) in eight days. His latest is a southern rock style tune that takes aim at all the shameless name droppers who think having some tertiary connection to a celebrity makes them cool. You once threw up in an elevator next to Christian Slater? You know Paul Giamatti’s plumber? You have the same birthday as Kim Kardashian? Weird Al is begging you to stop with these lame claims to fame. Okay, we’re _kind_ of guilty of this behavior. Sorry to let you down, Weird Al. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3012624/weird-al-video-claim-to-fame-celebrity-name-dropping/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3012624/weird-al-video-claim-to-fame-celebrity-name-dropping/"},"headline":"Weird Al's New Song Makes Fun of Your Lame Celebrity Name Dropping","datePublished":"2014-07-21T14:35:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:11:48.718Z","description":"Your dentist accidentally sneezed on Russell Crowe? You stayed in the same hotel as Zooey Deschanel once? Weird Al is not impressed","url":"https://time.com/3012624/weird-al-video-claim-to-fame-celebrity-name-dropping/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","Music"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3012624/weird-al-video-claim-to-fame-celebrity-name-dropping/","name":"Weird Al's New Song Makes Fun of Your Lame Celebrity Name Dropping"}}]}] ```