5:3 - Weird Al Yankovic vs. Penn And Teller

[UMPIRE]

SEASON 5, ROUND 3

Weird Al Yankovic

Slot: The Team's Entertainer
Season Wins: 1
Season Losses: 0
Fantasy Team Page
Read more about Weird Al Yankovic at Wikipedia
Official Site: Scotti Brothers Records

Penn And Teller

Slot: The Team's Entertainer
Season Wins: 1
Season Losses: 0
Fantasy Team Page
Read more about Penn And Teller at Wikipedia
Official Site: Penn and Teller

Battle Terrain
Entertainer: Variety Show

[Macklemore]

These two have actually interacted before. And I genuinely believe that Penn and Teller would work a crowd better than Al, cause they can sing and dance (as shown in the video above), as well as being able to do magic tricks. And, naturally, they are well versed in comedy.

[Fox]

3 minutes ago, Macklemore said:

These two have actually interacted before. And I genuinely believe that Penn and Teller would work a crowd better than Al, cause they can sing and dance (as shown in the video above), as well as being able to do magic tricks. And, naturally, they are well versed in comedy.

Weird Al is also well versed in Comedy.  He's the elder statesman of Comedy.

Weird Al can sing and dance I'd say better than Penn and Teller.

Magic tricks... not sure.

 

[Bergy_Berg]

Damn, this is so even it's crazy.

My thoughts on how it plays out: Both can do the comedy opener well, I don't think either has and edge there. Dance Finale is even too.

The difference comes in the song and the magic trick, and it's a game of margins. Penn and Teller will absolutely dominate the magic trick by a very wide margin. Weird Al will do better in the song, but as Macklemore presented above Penn and Teller can compete there, so the margin is smaller.

Overall, the longest headliners in Vegas, Penn and Teller, win.

[Mercenaryblade]

It's a tough matchup, but Penn and Teller have been in showbiz forever, so giving it to them

[DSkillz]

45 minutes ago, Mercenaryblade said:

Penn and Teller have been in showbiz forever

Heh, so has Weird Al. Both acts go back to the 1970's. 

Judging from that great old video, while I wasn't impressed with Penn's singing, the rest of his and Teller's act matches up pretty well with Al's.

I'm honestly torn on this one.

[Peypeypeypey]

Y'all are forgetting Weird Al's Mysterious Floating Orb, which gives him the edge in magic tricks: 

 

[Bergy_Berg]

7 minutes ago, Peypeypeypey said:

Y'all are forgetting Weird Al's Mysterious Floating Orb, which gives him the edge in magic tricks: 

 

Something seems not entirely compelling here.

[Peypeypeypey]

In all seriousness, I think this might be a draw, but I'm leaning towards Al. Weird Al takes singing commandingly, Penn and Teller are better magicians, comedy could go to either depending on the crowd, and dancing I just feel that Weird Al would be marginally better at.

[Mercenaryblade]

1 hour ago, Bergy_Berg said:

Something seems not entirely compelling here.

Penn: "I'm sorry Al. But you didn't fool us." 

[Magnamax]

 I think calling the song/dance closer than it ought to be. P/T are awesome, but they aren’t performing a song on weird al’s level. Assuming he knows he’s prepping for them, Weird Al probably writes some crazy parody on Penn and Teller, whipping the crowd onto his side. The comedy is probably the closest part, idk, probably depends on whether you like the stand up P/T do or the theatrics of Al. 

 

i feel like Al is going to win the dance finale. Literally being one of the Earth’s most accomplished accordion players, that’s probably a little better Than what P/T could do.

[UMPIRE]

Match Final Results

Weird Al Yankovic: 11
Penn And Teller: 7

[Bergy_Berg]

I ain't even mad. Weird Al is cool as fuck.