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A Lot of Funny Familiar People Who You Recognize But Could Not Name Sing "We Are the World"

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Videos | Comments (18)

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“We are the World” is over 25 years old now. Nothing will age you like hearing that, and flashing back to all those junior high talent shows that featured a bunch of douchebags badly yukking up their own versions.

That’s kind of what this is, only it’s not douchebags. It’s Kevin Nealon, Sarah Silverman, Kurt Russell, Garfunkel and Oates, and a lot of other (largely Canadian) faces you recognize from that show, but can’t quite place their names.

It’s funny. For a few minutes, anyway. And then you realize that even truly funny people can only do so much with this song before … holy shit! It’s eight minutes long?

Watch the first three minutes, and tell all your friends you saw the whole thing. They’ll never know, because they only saw the first three minutes as well.

On another note, if you type Sarah Silverman into Google, one of the related searches is “Sarah Silverman Toilet,” which will call up the above image. I guess it’s a very popular search.









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Comments

Kurt Russell was pretty great in that opening. And it's quite unlike me to pass Garfunkel and Oates over for anybody.

Cool.

Posted by: Caillan at November 30, 2010 10:30 AM

Man, nothing beats being born in the 70s. These kids don't know what it was like! It was amazing!

(well, maybe not all the time)

Posted by: Jay at November 30, 2010 10:30 AM

Garfunkel and Oates? I would never eat that cereal.

Posted by: pastor_of_muppets at November 30, 2010 10:39 AM

If you turned it off after three minutes you missed Weird Al autotuned and should be ashamed. Food really is the best food.

Posted by: admin at November 30, 2010 10:40 AM

I just pulled up the original on YouTube the other day, because I had it stuck in my head and thought to myself, "There must be more verses that I'm just forgetting." But no, it really was as repetitive as I remembered.

I listened to that record non-stop when I was little...both sides had the same song! It was great, because unlike other records where I had to get up and re-place the needle after my current song obsession was over, the record player would flip the record automatically, so I could listen to "We are the World" on endless loop. My poor parents.

Posted by: Phaeolus at November 30, 2010 11:00 AM

Maria Bamford! Paul F. Tompkins! NEIL HAMBURGER.
Hard and Phirm and Yank!

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at November 30, 2010 11:01 AM

By an accident of birth timing, I was forced to fit my entire high school and college experience into the '70s (1972-79) and it was every bit as painful and gruesome as you young-uns might imagine. The good news is, crap music like this and disco helped bring us the Stooges and the Pistols.

Posted by: , at November 30, 2010 11:19 AM

At least they're honest up front and admit it's horrible.

It's better than that shitful remake of the song they did after the Haiti Earthquake.

I don't know what was worse; the rapping, the Auto-Tune, the 12-year-old lesbian, the chipmunk slut, the gratuitous recycling of one of the song's newly deceased authors or that shrill banshee Celine Dion still mistaking screaming for actual vocal power. It all made me pray to be stricken with ear cancer.

Posted by: bleujayone at November 30, 2010 11:20 AM

Oh, there was some great stuff beyond the 3 minute mark. Maria Bamford's rock scream for one.

Posted by: really at November 30, 2010 11:25 AM

I may have left my sense of humor at home this morning, but what exactly is this making fun of? The self-righteous celebrities who recorded the original song, thinking it was going to change the world? The badness of the song itself? Starving children? I don't get it.

Posted by: Lindsay at November 30, 2010 11:28 AM

"What do you get when you cross a saber-tooth tiger with Michael Jackson?

I don't know, but you'd better keep it away from your kids."

- Neil Fucking Hamburger.
That guy is awesome from start to finish.

Posted by: Brian at November 30, 2010 1:38 PM

a) Aimee Mann, you strange scarecrow lady, I love you.

b) The Chris Hardwick bit with Weird Al made me laugh. Then there was a lot of unfunny shite.

Posted by: coveredinbees at November 30, 2010 2:06 PM

Liar. Sarah Silverman is totally a douchebag.

Posted by: TWoP_Fan at November 30, 2010 4:07 PM

"What's the different between Harriet Tubman and the Red Hot Chili Peppers?"
"Harriet Tubman was a heroine to the slaves, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers are slaves to heroin!"
-Neil Hamburger

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at November 30, 2010 5:48 PM

You lost me at 2:28.

Posted by: leuce7 at November 30, 2010 6:12 PM

The unfunny bits: that stupid rap, Neil Hamburger (funny, you'd think I would like that dude since I am a huge Kaufman fan, but no)

The funny bits: Hard and Phirm and Weird, Bamf's rock scream, Weird Al being ridiculously autotuned, Kurt Russell's subtle award introduction

The awesome bits: most of it.

Posted by: Shane at November 30, 2010 6:41 PM

Posted by: Ballymena Bob at November 30, 2010 8:03 PM

I really don't know why this was posted. I watched the whole damn thing out of loyalty to a few of the participants, and have never seen so many hilarious people make something so aggravatingly unfunny to me. I wouldn't have even found this funny when it could have been a relevant parody of the remake. Just... well, it killed time while waiting for Sons of Anarchy to download, I guess.

Posted by: Steve at December 1, 2010 8:22 AM