High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Dare to Be Stupid is the third studio album by "Weird Al" Yankovic, released in 1985. The album was one of many produced by former The McCoys guitarist Rick Derringer. Recorded between August 1984 and March 1985, the album was Yankovic`s first studio album released following the success of 1984`s In 3-D, which included the Top Forty single "Eat It."