“Yeah, we’ve got our black ops all over the world,
from Kazakhstan to Bombay; (…)
Need a country destabilized?
Look no further,
we’re your guys!”
 
“Weird Al” Yankovic
“Party In The CIA”

March 27 2022 — Thank God, It’s [Parody] Sunday! Time to have some fun!  “Party in the CIA” is the seventh track off of Weird Al’s 2011 album,  Alpocalypse.  Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today

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“My last living musical hero is still my hero — but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.”

“Weird Al” Yankovic
July 27 2025

UPDATE (July 28, 2025) — When the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Colombian Juan Manuel Santos, I quoted Tom Lehrer’s reflection on the murderous legacy of Henry Kissinger:

“Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.”

Lehrer died on Saturday at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He once quipped that he had gone “from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.” Well done…

Born on April 9, 1928, Lehrer entered Harvard at just 15 and graduated magna cum laude in mathematics by 18.

He went on to teach math at MIT, Harvard, Wellesley College, and the University of California, Santa Cruz.

On Sunday, “Weird Al” Yankovic paid tribute:

“My last living musical hero is still my hero — but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.”

Lehrer’s satire has stood the test of time. As Yale historian Greg Grandin documents in a recent book, Kissinger’s actions between 1969 and 1976 contributed to the deaths of approximately four million people through U.S.-backed coups, covert operations, and military interventions across Southeast Asia and Latin America — including the infamous 1973 coup against Chilean President Salvador Allende. Under Kissinger, the CIA morphed into a global organization of contract killers.

“You better throw a party on the day that I die,” is the kind of thing Lehrer would surely say. And so, I’ll honor his spirit with Yankovic’s own irreverent tribute: “Party in the CIA.”

END of UPDATE

“Tom Lehrer, in my opinion, is the cleverest and funniest man of the 20th century — and he’s kind of my hero.”

Daniel Radcliffe, Star of Harry Potter

A parody of Miley Cyrus’ “Party in the USA”, it puts a humorous twist on the United States’ Central Intelligence Agency.

The real star of the album is “Party in the CIA”. It’s brilliant.

As an adult man I have next to zero association with the original song. I may have heard it in passing a couple times, tops.

However, connection with the original means nothing; it’s all about what’s new.

“Party in the CIA” is Weird Al at his finest. His lyrics take an unbearable bubblegum pop song and stealthily snaps its neck, planting in its place a brutal tale of special operative hijinks.

It’s as though “Party in the USA” was written only so Weird Al could parody it. Its very existence has now been validated in spades.

The humor is great, the premise is executed with brutal efficiency. “Stagin’ a coup like yeah, brainwashin’ moles like yeah.”

“Party in the CIA” is a straight up amazing track that pays for the album by itself. ( Alpocalypse by Cap Blackard )

Any resemblance to reality is — of course —  pure coincidence.

“Party In The CIA” by “Weird Al” Yankovic

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“Party In The CIA” by “Weird Al” Yankovic

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Parody –“Party In The CIA” by “Weird Al” Yankovic