VIDEORGY: Rock is such a great breeding...

VIDEORGY: Rock is such a great breeding ground for parody that we’d bet that Weird Al Yankovic never runs out of material. The good-natured satirist, whose new album is called “Polka Party,” has just debuted his new video, “Living With a Hernia,” a wiggy take-off on James Brown’s “Living in America.” What makes Yankovic’s clips so special is his fastidious attention to detail. He not only lovingly re-creates Brown’s act, but he even lampoons the original video’s Las Vegas setting, complete with a row of show-girls in sky-high pink headdresses. Directed by Jay Levey, the clip features Yankovic (in a wavy-haired Brown wig) suffering from severe hernia pains, which strike on jogging paths, tennis courts and, most comically, at the bowling alley. Yankovic even finds a way to adapt the song’s goofy lyrics to a scene where he delivers a lecture to a classroom full of medical students, who shout out an encyclopedic array of hernias (“strangulated” was our favorite) as Weird Al points to a “Top Ten Hernias of the Week” chart. All in all, it’s a delightful satiric romp, complete with a brilliant kicker, as Yankovic bellows: “I feel bad!”