Late Night Video: Mr. Trololo
March 14th, 2010 • Related • Filed Under
By nemski
The Mr. Trololo video is sweeping the inter tubes and should be watched if you haven’t already seen it. According to Pravda, yes that newspaper, this is a video of the Soviet era performer Eduard Khil singing “I Am So Happy to Finally Be Back Home” . Khil, interviewed in the Christian Science Monitor, said:
On the phone, he explained that the reason the iconic song has no lyrics is that the original ones, about a cowboy riding the range while his wife sits at home knitting socks, were banned as “too naughty” by Soviet censors of the day.
“A theme like that was unacceptable, so we decided to sing it without any words at all,” he said. “So, in this case, I was an instrument rather than a singer.”
Comment by cassandra_m on 14 March 2010 at 9:26 pm:
This is very silly indeed. Is that guy wearing a wig?
Comment by Free Radical on 14 March 2010 at 9:41 pm:
Things I’ve learned:
1. There were Russian cowboys riding the range.
2. Knitting is fraught with sexual undertones of which I’m innocently unaware. Unstable Isotope doesn’t knit. Should I be relieved, or disappointed?
Comment by ek on 14 March 2010 at 10:11 pm:
What will Glenn Beck think of this?
Comment by cassandra_m on 14 March 2010 at 11:12 pm:
Glenn Beck will want that wig.
Comment by Rebecca on 15 March 2010 at 7:04 am:
Funny. And even funnier, the comment by Free Radical. Ha!
Comment by Joanne Christian on 15 March 2010 at 6:11 pm:
Did Ed Sullivan find this guy, or was he an interlude singer on Lawrence Welk?
Free Radical–be disappointed, and stay intrigued, that gal is downright trainable I hear. I don’t know if she’ll have time for that talent:).