Poor gorilla didn’t hurt nobody nohow!
This Is Me, Doing Stand-Up
I came first in my heat. It doesnt suck. Gor those wondering what are the two items I take out, the first is
a red Bic pen,
the last is
a bigass magic marker.
How to cook Swedish meatballs like a real Swedish chef. Bork bork bork!
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(V meets Evey and rooftop performance “in language we can all understand”) 
What a coincidence. I came here to post a clip of Chet Atkins as well:
Wow, that’s great, bubastis! You have a good style. 
I am totally fascinated by the new…Beaker Roll’d. It’s really well done!
A warning: This is the tune from the famous RickRolled gag placed on top of a Muppets vid.
The dude on the harmonica and bongos.
Hilarious.
-FrL-
For the record - I specifically called the video “Beaker Roll’d” in my post so as not to give anyone the impression that it was anything other than a Beaker version of “RickRolled.” The video is actually, as I said, well-done. Not like it’s a link to a screamer or porn or anything. It’s funny because it is a mash-up of Beaker singing and the song “Never Gonna Give You Up.” That’s it. No reason to warn anyone, I don’t think, unless you have some allergy to “Never Gonna Give You Up.”
I’m always really happy when I see one of these threads in Cafe Society. I love finding fun videos on YouTube but hate sifting through the crap myself. I realize that many people will think the video I linked to falls into the “crap” category, but I like it.
Maybe this will redeem me: Wizard! You Shall Not Pass! .
HOly CrAP! That’s incredible!
Those are hilarious, as well as some others by the same guy.
Tell me that’s real, and not something I just imagined. :eek:
Oh, it’s real. Leningrad Cowboys was originally a fictional band thought up by Aki Kaurismäki for a movie of his called “Leningrad Cowboys Do America”. Most of the members of this fictional movie band were in a band called Sleepy Sleepers at the time, and after the movie came out the fictional band took on a life of its own.
Somewhere along the line, someone got an idea, and in June 1993, Leningrad Cowboys performed with the Red Army Choir in Helsinki under the name “Total Balalaika Show”. The next year, they did another concert with the Choir in Berlin, this time sponsored by Nokia. (Some newspapers, evidently not being completely up to date on things, played this up as a brilliant show of international co-operation: “A Japanese company sponsoring a Russian rock band”…both Nokia and LC are Finnish.)
Here’s a complete version of “Sweet Home Alabama”.
This rendition of “Delilah” was filmed in the Helsinki concert in 1993.
This “Gimme All Your Lovin’” is from Berlin the following year.
And this is a clip from the movie from which they got started. The tune is a Finnish polka with an interesting bit of history.
My father’s male choir recorded a CD of Christmas carols with Jore Marjaranta, one of the singers (the one singing in Sweet Home Alabama, I think, but it’s a bit hard to recognize him in hair and make-up) in the mid-90’s, about 1996 maybe. When they held a concert, the other Leningrad Cowboys came to listen. It was pretty easy to pick them out: they were the gentlemen sitting completely stone-faced in the front row in black suits with long black hair and sunglasses on.
When I lived in Texas, Nokia sponsored a day at Six Flags Over Texas for its employees, complete with a concert by Leningrad Cowboys (sans Red Choir…they had a problem with their visas).
Leningrad Cowboys - Pretty Fly For A White Guy These videos are possibly the most surreal real thing I’ve ever come across.