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James Brown was a legendary soul singer. And there was reasons for the things that Stephen did last night at the end of the show. Watch this clip, and last night should make a little more sense.
And now, because I found it during my James Brown search and even though it’s 20+ years old it still makes me laugh until I cry, here’s a classic SNL sketch. Consider it a comedy history lesson.
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Good call! You read my mind with the Eddie Murphy sketch! Absolutely classic.
It did shock me that many people didn’t understand the closing bit — including a large portion of the studio audience, it seemed. The words “weird” and “random” appeared on my screen more than a few times today. I thought James Brown was a much bigger part of popular culture. And I’m not even that old!
::runs off to search for Buckwheat Sings::
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Love the Eddie Murphy skit…too hot in the hot tub!
But wait — did people really not understand the cape joke? But that’s been spoofed a million times! Didn’t Weird Al even do the cape joke? Wow, I’m feeling mighty old…
Anyway, Stephen’s little tribute was awesome. I’m from JB’s hometown and grew up listening to him. I always knew Stephen had soul power!
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I think it would have been better if he had broken away and trued to return to the stage! im only 22 and even i got it!
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I think it would have been better if he had broken away and trued to return to the stage!
Ha! I was waiting for that too!
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@tvcasualty:
I read on multiple spots in the Colbertophileoverse people saying that they didn’t understand the ending, so I thought I’d do my best to give an explanation. Plus I was really wanting an excuse to watch the “James Brown Celebrity Hot Tub” sketch again. (“OOOOOW! Too hot in the hot tub!”)
And Al did do a spoof of “Living in America” called “Living with a Hernia“, and recreated the video down to using some of the same dancers. And he did the cape bit.
(BTW, You can tell the Hard Core Al fans … they’re the ones who don’t even bother with the “Weird” part any more.
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DB- Thanks for the explanation then. I forget sometimes that some members of the Colbert Nation are a little younger than I am.
And gawd, I haven’t seen the video for “Living With A Hernia” in soooo long! Thanks for that link too. “I feel BAD!”
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YOU feel old? I bought Polka Party, the Al album that featured “Living with a Hernia”, the week it was released … on VINYL.
I’ve been an Al fan for a looooooooooooong time. I got my first album when “In 3-D” came out, around 1985 I think? I was in middle school, I remember that much, 7th grade or so. And I got it on vinyl. Actually, up until “Off the Deep End” (1992) came out, I always bought his albums on vinyl. They had engravings on the inside with cute phrases like “Eat your broccoli!” Al’s album “Off the Deep End” (1992) was the first I bought on CD, and I remember it distinctly because I was in college and I had to go to the lone music store in town to get it. And I had to buy a boom box to listen to it because I didn’t have a CD player yet.
I’ve got Al’s whole music library on CD now, and burned in my computer, and it’s in my MP3 hard drive in my car, so I can listen to Al any time I want. But I still have all of those albums in my closet, on vinyl. And an autograph from him I got when I was 15. I asked him if he was married in a fan letter, and I got an autographed picture back that said, “To my first wife, Xxxx Xxxx, love ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic.”
Remember when you could send a letter to a TV star or musical star and you could get autographs? That was always the coolest thing, even if it wasn’t real. I used to have all kinds of autographs from when I sent letters to TV stars. Heck, even when I wrote Conan O’Brien when he first came out (1994), I got an autograph from Conan, and I got both an autographed picture AND a personalized letter from Andy Richter thanking me for my letter and for being a fan.
God, I’m old. Take heed, youngsters, this is what happens to uberfans when they get old!
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We’re around the same age then. I remember buying things on vinyl as well (and still have most of mine).
And I’m with you on the autographs thing. I remember my first big crush was (okay, don’t laugh): The Greatest American Hero. I totally wrote him a letter telling him how much I loved him and thought he was a real superhero. I don’t remember if I got a response back but if you were a fan back then, writing letters was the THING. I remember they even used to publish celebrity fan club addresses in the back of those teeny bopper magazines so you could write Corey Feldman or whomever it was. And so exciting when you actually got a letter back.
(Weird) Al brings back so many memories of my sister and I…we used to love his polkas (which are still effin’ BRILLIANT, as you probably know).
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I agree that it would have been perfect if he would have thrown the cape off. Without doing so I was left feeling incomplete!
Too hot in the hot tub! Is right up there with King Tut, The Blues Brothers, and Lunch Lady Land!
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Iloved that SNL sketch!!! I had the pleasure seeing “The Hardest Working Man in America” a few yars ago – a talent that will be missed.
OW! I FEEL GOOD!!!!
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