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In the past couple of weeks, a young man named Kenny “K-Strass” Strasser (and also sometimes Karl “K-Strass” Strassburg) has been making appearances on local news morning talk shows in the midwest, and particularly in Wisconsin, to demonstrate the skills that have made him an “Award-Winning Yo-Yo Master.” Sure. He has been divorced twice, doesn’t have a girlfriend and doesn’t WANT a girlfriend, his parents recently got divorced, he doesn’t get along with his brother because of her wife, and he is having some trouble getting into schools lately which makes it harder for him to do the important work of inspiring children and saving the world through his company, ZimZam Yo-Yo, the world’s first “green” toymaker. Set your alarm clock for this interview!
Oh, and also he is a liar. Because it is a prank, ZimZam Yo-Yo doesn’t exist, and K-Strass clearly does not have any skills (still not sure if the ex-wives are real).
Oh, and also he is basically the best. After the jump, two videos of K-Strass in action:
Here he is on WSAW’s “Sunrise 7″ show in Wausau:
And here he is on Channel 12:
Haha. Well done. Although, if it turns out that K-Strass is selling something, I am going to be very disappointed. But I will also probably buy it? Who am I kidding, I will definitely buy it. (Thanks for the tip, Jim.)
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I’m sure my chosen profession doesn’t require a pronounceable last name at all. – Amy Pflugshaupt
quit stealing my upvotes
Agreed Raptor Jesus – Subhuman, your Off topic reply to the FIRST post with a joke recapitulated below by someone who actually posted before you is an upvote stealing kind of move.
err it was an accident? and I refreshed before posting, pretty sure there were only like 6 comments on here then : / Either way I hadn’t seen it, take all the upvotes if you want them sheesh.
Yo.
Yo.
You gotta keep yo-yo-ing.
Can’t let it stop.
Never let it stop.
Come on, Kenny.
Everyone’s watching.
Expecting.
Never… let it…
stop.
Everyone’s counting on you, Kenny.
Don’t let it stop.
Don’t… ever…
let it…
stop !
Sooner or later,
it has to stop.
Freddie Prinze Jr. IS Kenny Strasser
Initially, I thought this was a Leonardo DiCaprio/Casey Affleck collaboration. That it isn’t only makes life so much sweeter.
This is solid gold.
The ‘blue angel’ is a difficult trick to pull off but K-Strass makes it seem easy. A flawless performance.
Please, Hollywood, make the Karl “K-Strass” Strassburg movie. A yellow hat, a yo-yo and a dream: to make local news anchors very, very uncomfortable.
Jim Gaffigan IS K-Strass!
Nah, Simon Pegg.
Duh, if he’s awkward and uncomfortable and slightly tragic: Philip Seymore Hoffman…always and forever
First Green-Horn toymaker.
“The Garth Brooks of yo-yo” is one hell of an insult.
better than “the chris gaines of yo-yo”
dammit TVparty
I wonder if this means at some point he will wear dark clothes and become the Chris Gaines of yo-yo and start doing mediocre rock yo-yo tricks for like a month, then pretend it never happened
When Andy Rooney was your age, Red Foley was the best Yo-Yo-er around, bar none.
What’s with they kids and their newfangled Yo-Yo Masters??
Some days the ‘y’ key seems to just press itself…
I had to pause just to make sure, but her name is Amy Pflugshaupt.
Pflugshaupt.
From someone working in local news, why they didn’t change her on-air last name to… Plummer? or Mitchell?
Also, I’d like to Pflugshaupt on Amy Pflugshaupt.
Wasn’t that B Dub’s name in that census sketch?
“Pflugshauptenowitz? That’s no kind of name for an American. From now on, your last name is Pflugshaupt.”
#ellisisland
All I heard in that second video was blah blah yo-yo blah blah charity something or other blah blah BARBECUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is what I say to myself when I see those Sarah Mclachlan Save the Animals ads.
“(What should I do?!)” is my mantra.
“Yo! Yo! What happened to K-Strass, Eric Stringer?!”
Eh, that quote’s a stretch. That’s like the Garth Brooks of stretched references.
First video 0:05 to 0:18 have got to be the most tragically funny 13 seconds of television I’ve ever seen.
oh man, he MIGHT be selling that ringtone. or pitching a nightly tv show. I’d buy both.
I have the perfect .gif to respond to this posting. let me link to it….hold on its my dad, i need to get this.
“We’re still not sure who Kenny Strasser is, but we’re pretty sure he’s no yo-yo champion.”
NOW they research him. http://www.wsaw.com/home/headlines/91764029.html
Well, any news station that lets their correspondents on air in a tshirt probably thumbs their nose at researching credentials before someone appears in a live segment.
Total U-F-Yo sighting. Clever, clever man that news channel 7 anchor!
I live in Wausau so that IS my news station
It’s sort of like that time when Dan Deacon was on NBC morning news in 2005.
this is from the channel 7 website
“It turns ours wasn’t the first morning show Kenny appeared on. At WFRV-TV in Green Bay, he said he brought his yo-yo’s but forgot the string.”
This was so desperately depressing I don’t know if I can sleep tonight.
I totes yoyo competitively, enough so to the point where I read this story a few weeks back, and I knew this guy wasn’t for real because I hadn’t heard of him before. Man, I’m a nerd. Anti-Yo Por Vida.
“My Grandfather did some Yo Yo-ing in the South.”
AMAZING.
This is Fake, BTW. Not to burst bubbles or bust up well placed Around the World Yo Yo Tricks.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/93209399.html
http://deadspin.com/5535220/fake-yo+yo-trickster-fools-every-tv-station-everywhere?skyline=true&s=i
“I don’t have the muscle memory.”