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After the jump, I have posted an animated music video for a cover of Adam Sandler’s “The Chanukah Song” performed by Neil Diamond. You are more than welcome to click through and watch it, I simply ask that before you do, you pose to yourself a simple question, and you have a follow up. Your first question to yourself is: am I a person who enjoys irreverent holiday music? And your follow up question to yourself is: am I a person who enjoys irreverent holiday music so much that I am thrilled and delighted by the idea of a cover of an irreverent holiday song? Thank you(rself), you will take your answer off the air.
This is “Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer” all over again. That song, of course (not of course), was a classic borscht belt routine that Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner would perform in delis around the Lower East Side as a goof, and the next thing you know, Less Than Jake* is covering it and it’s all over whatever there was before there was YouTube. Mimeographs? It’s being forwarded around in a mimeograph. KNOW YOUR HISTORY.
*Less Than Jake +/- = Neil Diamond, FACT, just like the rest of the FACTS in that paragraph, I’m sure.
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Does doing the YMCA dance everytime i hear it mean i love enjoys irreverent holiday music?
I hate it when you are filling out a form and your first answer is no, but you can’t help to answer the second question cause you really want the people reading it not to misunderstand you.
FORM: “Have you ever had a sexual transmitted disease?”
ME: “NO”
FORM: “If so, which ones and when were you diagnosed?”
ME: “I have never had herpes, gonorrhea, chlamydia, genital warts, etc.”
Sometimes N/A just doesn’t cut it. Doctor’s office visits are time consuming affairs for me. I wonder if Health Care Reform will touch on this?
But my answer is:
1. No
2. N/A
Damn, unlike doctor forms, these were rhetorical questions, weren’t they?
You Have Dysentery
That’s considered a diet to poor folks like me.
Heads up to anyone who dares slander Neil in the comments: you will have my flying fists of female fury to answer to (they are named Justice and Clobber Time).
P.S. HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM ME AND NEIL!
I’ve got your back kiss the pan! Neil Diamond 4 Life.
Best first night of Chanukah present ever!
All the nightmares of Neil Diamond breaking into my house are now reemerging
You crazy for this one, Jewsy Shore!
I always get my Neils confused [Young and Diamond]. So I was very 0_o at the thought of Neil Young covering this.
One is an amazing poet and the voice of his generation; the other is Neil Young. REMEMBER THAT FOR LIFE!
Twenty Minutes with Neil Diamond
“You make those rhinestones twinkle or I will have your ass!”
“I guess I could do that. I wasn’t sure how much you wanted to ridicule yourself here, so …”
“Also, make the jews fatter and homelier.”
“Well, I don’t think …”
“I know a woman with a fist named clobbertime. Do not test me boy.”
Forever in Bad Idea Jeans.
I signed in for no other reason than to upvote this.
He changed the line “Tom Cruise isn’t but I think his agent is” to “Tom Cruise isn’t but Jesus Christ is.” In case there aren’t any gay people there?
I had ‘Goodbye Blue and White’ on vinyl, but it had a giant scratch in it. Fuck you, $2 wins on eBay.
does he say “don’t smoke your marijuanica” or “go smoke your marijuanica”? ugh.
i will never stop loving the monster mash, and i will never be ashamed of it.