- Mos Def and Jack Black preparing to remake Driving Miss Daisy in Be Kind Rewind.
Like most people, I’m a fan of “Weird Al” Yankovic’s recent music video for “Handy,” his spoof of Iggy Azalea’s pop hit “Fancy.” The video contains as many good sight gags and one-liners as any feature-length comedy I’ve seen all year, which is especially impressive given that it’s not even three minutes long. Eddie Pepitone, the bald, dyspeptic stand-up comic profiled in the recent doc The Bitter Buddha, deserves much credit for its success. His outsize reaction to an exploding dishwasher is priceless, as is the sincerely proud expression he wears when playing back-up dancer to Yankovic. (The parodist has long generated big laughs from aging and/or unattractive men getting emotional. Who can forget Dick Van Patten’s cameo in the “Smells Like Nirvana” video or that fat, wide-eyed cameraman from UHF?)
