Six Degrees Of "Weird Al" Yankovic

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Michael Brecker performed with James Taylor on "October Road", who performed with Ray Charles on "Genius Loves Company", who was in "Spy Hard", for which Al provided the theme song.

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Kenny Rogers was in "Kenny Rogers as The Gambler, Part III: The Legend Continues" with George Kennedy, who was in the Naked Gun movies with Al. :)

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Gary Coleman was in a Celebrity Deathmatch with Rick Shroeder
who was on Silver Spoons with Alfonso Ribiero
who did two Pepsi commercials with Michael Jackson
who had a few songs parodied as well as at least one album cover with Al


What about Shakira?
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Shakira performed her song "Objection" at the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards... Jimmy Fallon was the host of the awards... and Jimmy Fallon opened for Al last year in Poughkeepsie, NY.

George Lopez

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george lopez was the guest and co host twice of the sharon osbourne show.
sharon also had barenaked ladies on as musical guests.
barenaked ladies were parodied by al.

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Michael Buffer was in an episode of "South Park" with Mary Kay Bergman, who sang on "Pretty Fly For A Rabbi."

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Adam West has done guest shots on Johnny Bravo as did Al.


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alton brown is a chef on the food network.
dweezil zappa will be a chef on the food network soon.
dweezil played on al's song genius in france.

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Ben Harper recorded "Satisfied Mind" which was also recorded by Bob Dylan, who was style-parodied by Weird Al in "Bob."

Here's a toughie: Harper Simon.
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can a connection even be made between al and harper simpson? i don't think you should stump us, because look at how long it took me to come up with a link for the last person. keep it simple
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