About this episode
The eleventh episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1989 features our producer David Rosen’s personal pick, “Weird Al” Yankovic’s UHF . Written by Yankovic and his longtime manager and music video director Jay Levey, directed by Levey and starring Yankovic, Michael Richards, Kevin McCarthy, Victoria Jackson and David Bowe, UHF was a financial and critical failure at the time of its release but went on to become a cult classic. The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert ( https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/uhf-1989 ), Desson Thomson in the Washington Post ( https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/uhfpg13howe_a0c880.htm ), and Michael Wilmington in the Los Angeles Times ( https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-07-21-ca-4050-story.html ).