Jimmy Fallon has been obsessed with comedy and music since he was a Brooklyn kid staying up to record the Dr. Demento radio show on reel-to-reel tape. “Dr. Demento was how I got my start ...

Dr. Demento played a vital role in Yankovic's early career, despite some exaggerations in the movie. The breakout hit "My Bologna" was recorded in a bathroom, just as depicted in the film ...

who is not to be confused with novelty-song DJ Doctor Demento. This prequel is set 15 to 20 years before the events of “Fury Road,” and quite likely will once again feature some of the best ...

The physicians, at Allina Health in Minnesota and Wisconsin, appear to be the largest group of unionized doctors in the private sector. By Noam Scheiber In the latest sign of growing frustration ...

Dr. Demento: Actually, a fellow DJ at KPPC in Pasadena, Steven Segal, who was known as “The Obscene Steven Clean,” gave it to me. I don’t know how he came up with it, but he told me years later that ...

Seattleite Rainn Wilson remembers when he first heard a song by “Weird Al” Yankovic on the Dr. Demento radio show not long after his family moved to Chicago when Wilson was 16. “I remember ...

The top-hatted d.j. and novelty-hit king Dr. Demento (Rainn Wilson), Yankovic’s real-life idol, reigns over a kind of glamorous comedy-dweeb Shangri-La; Madonna (Evan Rachel Wood), who inspired ...

No, he wasn't bestowed the moniker by a wacky mentor. However, Dr. Demento was influential on the budding comedy musician. In his teens, Yankovic began listening to Dr. Demento's radio show ...

Starting with his first professional recordings and appearances on the Dr. Demento radio show decades ago, "Weird Al" Yankovic—who was born in Downey, California, on October 23, 1959—has ...