Stephen Colbert is a master of postmodernism and the interwebs, capable of driving his audience to do things like get a bridge named after him, a species of spiders, and beyond. And now he’s done a cover of Rebecca Black’s Friday.
Poor Rebecca Black. This is going to be the highlight of her life, becoming a temporary national celebrity for creating a terrible, terrible song – then moving forward and creating more terrible, terrible songs. Sure she’s made a bit of money off of it, but will that be worth the ridicule she’ll face in the workplace? They parodied her in the WWE. THE WWE. You know what the WWE is? A parody of masculinity. Technically, the universe shouldn’t’ve allowed those two things to exist in the same place at the same time without some kind of minor implosion.
Rebecca Black also popped up in Stephen Colbert’s radar, as the punchline to a charity joke by Jimmy Fallon. If viewers could donate 26,000 to a worthy charity by Friday, Stephen Colbert would appear on the show and belt the internet meme out.
And he did. With the help of Taylor Hicks, a Yeti, the Knicks dancers, and an auto-tuned Jimmy Fallon.
It actually made the song….halfway decent?
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April 6th, 2011 - 7:29:44 AM
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