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Sun Jun-28-09 03:25 PM
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This is definitely on-topic: Steve Martin parody of MJ's Billie Jean (on The New Show) |
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Sun Jun-28-09 03:36 PM
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I'd never seen that before.
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Sun Jun-28-09 03:54 PM
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2. I'd forgotten all about that - thanks |
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Sun Jun-28-09 03:57 PM
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3. Gosh, I haven't seen that since it originally aired--thanks! |
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I must have been one of about five people who watched The New Show.
Dave Thomas (formerly of SCTV, later of Grace Under Fire, aka Doug McKenzie) played the detective.
Hilarious.
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Sun Jun-28-09 04:36 PM
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4. funny. Thanks for posting |
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Sun Jun-28-09 07:05 PM
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This video, a parody of the “Billie Jean” video, was done for “The New Show,” which was a prime-time NBC program that Lorne Michaels did in 1983-1984, when he wasn’t producing “Saturday Night Live.” This was the opening—it was the first piece on the first episode of the show. Michael Jackson had recently done what I consider to be his life-changing performance on the Grammy Awards, where he did the Moonwalk and threw his hat offstage. He was just brilliant. Then the “Billie Jean” video came out. And this was a parody of that.
I’m not sure whose idea it was; it might have been Lorne’s. Pat Birch choreographed it. The hard move was that little leg twist that he did. You really have to throw your leg. I did it a thousand times in about three days. And a couple of weeks later I noticed—er, I have a pain here. The pain lasted about two years, then it went away on its own.
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