Bigging it up to the Newport Massive!!!

[idontlikegravy]

The funniest vid I've seen in a while (that wasn't a Marvel/DC). Suspect it's funniest if you're Welsh, but I hope it translates:

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[bugeyedmonster]

It's sort of like the Welsh version of Weird Al, isn't it?

[idontlikegravy]

Kind of, although they're not at all famous beyond YouTube (that I'm aware of anyway)

But there's a long tradition of this kind of parody on the UK, going back to before Weird Al was even born! Music Hall in the Victorian period is where it began, but it really took off with pop music in the fifties, Lonnie Donegan and his skiffle group and the Barron Knights in the sixties and the tradition has gone on right up to today with comedy acts like The Mighty Boosh and charting music acts like Goldie Looking Chain (who are also Welsh). And a legend of the comedy song is one Bernard Cribbins, who before he was Donna's grandfather was (and still is) a comedy god. /lecture! (Sorry, I'm a big fan of the comedy song, so I know quite a bit about the subject!)

[aeron_lanart]

Barron Knights! Ooh I remember them - I thought they were hilarious.

[aeron_lanart]

Hee! Good on them for getting Llanfair PG into a 'rap' song (even if it is in the wrong bit of Wales for the song).

[idontlikegravy]

LOL

Yeah, but they're not big on brains in Newport, especially not geography XD