When I saw Dave Chappelle's Piss on You parody a few years ago, I figured we as Americans had reached our peak in R. Kelly-related mockery. Of course, this didn't stop Jay Leno from (probably) trotting out a hundred more R. Kelly jokes, between Lance Ito and Kato Kaelin zingers, but nothing has even come close to matching that.
Until today.
I posted a long time ago about the hilarity of the R. Kelly "Trapped in a Closet" series, which they sold as some kind of deep, daring hip-hopera, but which was, in actuality, the most public career suicide since Mike Tyson ate Evander Holyfield's ear. This collapse culminated in one of the most bizarre performances of all time, when he acted out all of the parts of the song, live on stage. teenage girls loved it. Everyone else in the world laughed.
Anyway, today, Weird Al Yankovic proved to me that there's still some juice in R. Kelly humor. His brilliant Trapped in the Drive-Thru parody speaks for itself. It's long, but just about perfect.
Maybe this will hurt my street cred in Barrelhouse-land, but I'm a big Weird Al guy. Gets me every time. This might be the best I've ever seen though.
3.21.2007
Best R. Kelly parody since Chappelle went crazy
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The thing that gets me about Weird Al is that he's such a square-jawed, handsome fellow underneath the stupid hair and goofy faces.
The part that really killed me was the Led Zepplin interlude. I was laughing so hard it hurt.
Led Zepplin, Weird Al, and R. Kelly. What could be better?
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