The master of parodies takes on the biopic in the trailer for Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

“All I wanted was to make up new words to a song that already exists,” Radcliffe as Yankovic tells his college friends before busting in an adaptation of “My Sharona” featuring a package of bologna.

Just like Yankovic’s entire body of parodying work, Weird takes aim at the overwrought tropes seen in the standard celebrity biopic, from his discovery by a talent agent in a small town bar, to the constructing of a “checkered past” riddled with drug and alcohol abuse, to his eventual rebirth.

Evan Rachel Wood stars in the film as a fictionalized Madonna, who becomes Al’s wild child girlfriend and pushes him down a dark path. We also catch a glimpse of Quinta Brunson as the almighty talk show host, Oprah. All the while, the talent manager played by Rainn Wilson constantly sports a red bow tie and top hat, even as he gives a pep talk to Al from a bubble bath.

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story will premiere as the opening film for the Toronto International Film Festival’s Midnight Madness programming before arriving on Roku’s free streaming channel November 4.