Doug Bressler, the artist behind DoogToons and Nick and Haig, has teamed up again with the father of musical comedy “Weird Al” Yankovic. Bressler animates a segment of an interview with Yankovic, and we learn about his spelling skills.

Spelling Bees and Accordions

If you’re wondering what other Weird Al videos DoogToons has created, wonder no more!

Weird Al’s Childhood

Trapped in the Drive-Thru (a spoof of R. Kelly’s Trapped in the Closet)

Late last year, Doug Bresler, the creator of Doogtoons and Nick and Haig, animated an interview with “Weird Al” Yankovic. The two have reunited for a second animated project - this time on a music video. Bresler animated and directed an 11-minute parody of R. Kelly’s ‘hip-hopera’ saga Trapped in the Closet. The track is called Trapped In The Drive-Thru and it’s off Yankovic’s latest release Straight Outta Lynwood, his most successful chart album in the U.S.

Today marks the launch of the latest JibJab original animation. The song is a parody of American Idol’s Taylor Hicks.

JibJab collaborated with the artist who has sold the most comedy albums in history, and he recently had his first Billboard Top 10 hit - it’s none other than “Weird Al” Yankovic. JibJab and Weird Al have teamed up to bring you the animated music video for Yankovic’s latest single, Do I Creep You Out, which is off Straight Outta Lynwood, the album that spawned White and Nerdy.

The live-action White and Nerdy music video , which was also directed by Yankovic, is a rarity on this recent album, which has produced mostly animated videos. Weeks ago, CHF covered what is perhaps the most animated album in history.

Congrats to the whole JibJab team!

It’s no secret now that Weird Al Yankovic has returned to greatness. He landed the first Top 10 single of his career only a few weeks ago with ‘White & Nerdy,’ which is accompanied by a hysterical video that Yankovich directed himself.

But Al turned to Flash animation directors for several of the other tracks on ‘Straight Outta Lynwood,’ which is currently in the top 25 albums on Amazon.

You’ve probably seen John K’s (’Ren & Stimpy’) music video for ‘Close But No Cigar,’ which was animated in Flash at Copernicus Studios.

John and Katie Rice handled the layouts, a process catologued at John’s blog in great detail. Weird Al loved the video and had this to say about the results in an interview at About.com:

I’m not a huge fan of Flash animation in general, but this was by far the best Flash that John or I had ever seen - they really blew us away.

Next is a video for ‘Virus Alert,’ created by David Lovelace, the creator of the Flash-animated series ‘Retarded Animal Babies.’

In a Hartford Advocate article from September, Yankovic detailed how he discovered Lovelace’s work:

I scoured places like Newgrounds to find talent, and that’s where I came upon Dave’s work. I really liked Dave’s drawing style and his sense of humor, and thought that he’d be a good call for the ‘Virus Alert’ video… I was fortunate enough to get a few animation icons (like Bill Plympton and John Kricfalusi) to sign on to the project, but I also wanted to work with the best and the brightest of the new crop of Internet flash animators.

Lastly, Doug Bressler, the creator of ‘Doogtoons,’ recently animated an interview with Weird Al in Flash.

I couldn’t confirm which software Thomas Lee’s ‘I’ll Sue Ya’ video was produced in, but I’m guessing After Effects, even though Lee is most known for his Flash work on ‘Star Wars Gangsta Rap.’

I also found a few ‘unofficial’ Flash animated Weird Al homages - Ryan Simmon’s animated take on the Weird Al TV show theme song, and Robert Montjoy’s version of ‘Lost Rhapsody.’ Of course, there are several more tracks on the album, and we’ll just have to wait and see which lucky animators are up next.