A Random Aside

I’ll mention quickly a pair of videos that I watched (more than once, at that). Both are from a Norwegian nostalgia show-I swear it’s true-called Gylne Tider. From looking online, every few years some random dudes look for celebrities and interview them about life after being at the top. I don’t want to use the team “has-been”, but… anyway, the first two shows they did, it was local celebrities. The last one and the new one, though, has faces that Americans and Europeans would recognize.

The first video became a viral hit just this past Friday. It’s because it’s what turned out to be a 6 minute long promo video (!) for the latest edition of the show, and it has the strangest collection of has-been celebrities you can imagine, lip-synching to a late 80’s charity recording of the Beatles hit Let It Be! Everyone’s green-screened on a beach and it’s like you just ingested shrooms from the moment that you see Roger Moore’s spoken word introduction at the beginning to seeing the likes of Tonya Harding, Jason Alexander, Bud Bundy from Married With Children, Philip Michael Thomas, Dolph Lundgren, Judd Nelson, Glenn Close, Dee Snider, Right Said Fred, and many others lip-synching. There are also brief appearances from the likes of Pam Anderson, Mickey Rourke and the recently departed Leslie Nielsen.

It’s no wonder it became a viral hit… and sadly, it’s no wonder that the producers of the show are idiots and are going around the Internet trying to have the video taken down all of the streaming sites! Doesn’t make much sense to me, the show gets by far the most amount of world publicity it has ever gotten, and they want people NOT to see what is causing all the buzz. What narrow-minded fools.

Anyhow, I hope that they don’t find the French site I’m linking to that still has the video up. You’ll get a wacky French ad right before the video starts, so you can enjoy that too.

Here it is.

The second video I found on my own, and it’s the same show plugging their previous season, which was back in ’06. The theme then was “80’s” so that’s why they have washed up people from the era lip-synching We Are The World! It’s not quite like the newer video, but then again what is? Besides a whole gaggle of singers (quite a few of whom I presume are European peeps that never made it big here) there’s also the likes of Lorenzo Lamas, Louis Gossett Jr., Rudy from The Cosby Show, Larry Hagman, and even Richard Kiel. You also get to see that some celebrities today look worse than they did back then. Limahl (The Neverending Story dude) has different hair… or rather, different atrocious hair. And, for some reason Bonnie Tyler now looks exactly like Wynonna Judd!

Here’s that video.

What wacky and great things they are.

I’ll be back Wednesday night, and there I’ll plan on reviewing a movie now out on the big screen.