The Compleat Al is a direct-to-video mockumentary about the life of "Weird Al" Yankovic, from his birth to 1985. It was partially written by Yankovic and directed by Jay Levey. The title of the film is parody of the 80's documentary The Compleat Beatles. Although it is a mockumentary, it is roughly based on Yankovic's real life. For example, Yankovic was raised in Lynwood, California, and has a degree in architecture.

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  • The Compleat Al is a direct-to-video mockumentary about the life of "Weird Al" Yankovic, from his birth to 1985. It was partially written by Yankovic and directed by Jay Levey. The title of the film is parody of the 80's documentary The Compleat Beatles. Although it is a mockumentary, it is roughly based on Yankovic's real life. For example, Yankovic was raised in Lynwood, California, and has a degree in architecture. His real-life parents appear in the mockumentary, as does a picture of his real-life childhood house. Because of the mixture of Yankovic's real life and fiction, many of the film's fabricated information was accepted by fans as real, such as Yankovic being born in a Saint Vitus hospital, or the film's pun which claimed his birth in an elevator signified his "rise to the top". The mockumentary also contains clips from his first Three "AL-TV"s, and all of Yankovic's music videos up to 1985: "Ricky", "I Love Rocky Road", "Eat It", "I Lost On Jeopardy", "This Is The Life", "Like a Surgeon","One More Minute", and "Dare to Be Stupid". The parody also extends to the technical aspects of the film, such as the copyright warning message which starts routinely but escalates to warnings that copying the video may result in damage to your VCR, smoke may come out of your TV set, escalating to possible destruction of the planet due to the greed of the viewer. The film was released in the VHS (rare), Betamax (extremely rare), and laserdisc (very rare) formats. A 10 minute version of the mockumentary appeared on one of Weird Al's "AL-TV" specials, #6, which aired on MTV in 1992. The Compleat Al was released at roughly the same time as the book The Authorized Al, which is essentially a book version of the video.
  • The Compleat Al è un mockumentary sulla vita di "Weird Al" Yankovic rilasciato nel 1985 e diretto da Jay Levey. Il titolo è una parodia di The Compleat Beatles.
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  • The Compleat Al VHS cover
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  • David Lewis
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  • The Compleat Al è un mockumentary sulla vita di "Weird Al" Yankovic rilasciato nel 1985 e diretto da Jay Levey. Il titolo è una parodia di The Compleat Beatles.
  • The Compleat Al is a direct-to-video mockumentary about the life of "Weird Al" Yankovic, from his birth to 1985. It was partially written by Yankovic and directed by Jay Levey. The title of the film is parody of the 80's documentary The Compleat Beatles. Although it is a mockumentary, it is roughly based on Yankovic's real life. For example, Yankovic was raised in Lynwood, California, and has a degree in architecture.
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