That "Weird Al" Yankovic is now involved in this year's election tells you everything you need to know about the 2016 presidential campaign.
America's favorite snarky son has put his stamp on the proceedings with "Bad Hombres, Nasty Women," a peppy stroll into the abyss that seems delightfully on point given the current cycle's cage-match atmosphere.
It's a synthesized reimagining of Wednesday's 90-minute debate between candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump - only way shorter, set to music, enhanced with Auto-Tune and turned up to 11 with smoke, flames and a cabal of dark-cloaked backup singers.
The show is appropriately over-the-top, Yankovic as wild-eyed moderator and the candidates throwing shade from the moment they pull out their amps. Each raps rhymed replies to the singer's topical, if bombastically delivered, questions, like
To stop a Cold War what should we be doin'?
Would you go thumb-wrestle Vladimir Putin?
And to the question of why each deserves to be president, when Trump says, "You get shot walking to the store," Clinton responds with "Donald got into a Twitter war."
Weighing in on world affairs, Trump says:
Mosul, Mosul, Mosul - so sad, so sad
It's a catastrophe.... So bad, so bad
But that's as far as Weird Al is going to get yanked into public service - as this question makes clear, he's got better things to do:
For the Supreme Court, who would you choose?
Please don't say me, I'm a busy dude
The video contains a commonly known obscene gesture, which somehow doesn't seem out of place at all.
