Bill Bailey’s Brilliant Kraftwerk Tribute
May 19th, 2007 by Roderick RussellIn late 2003 and 2004, comedian Bill Bailey toured a show entitled Part Troll, which featured a good deal of his brilliant musical humour. Among the gems of musical mash-up, satire and spoof was one piece in particular – an encore actually – which deserves mention here (they all deserve mention, actually). It is a tribute to the groundbreaking German electronic group Kraftwerk.
Of course, the clip is best if you watch the entirety of Bill’s show and - if you are not familiar with him - get to know him as a person, but it stands on its own quite well too.
I’m not going to give away the punch line, but after you watch the video, visit this site to read about how David Bamber (who passed away this week) of the Telegraph thinks that the original of this tune is a parody of the Catholic Church’s Latin Mass.
Stay tuned for more wonderful British comedy posts.
VIEWING NOTE: The YouTube version of this clip is lower quality than the Daily Motion copy. If you wish to see this in higher quality (it’s worth it) either 1.) watch the entire show on DVD or 2.) visit the Daily Motion page for the clip and fast forward to the spot where you see Bill come back on stage in a black suit.
tags: bill bailey, british comedy, david bamber, electronic music, german, german music, kraftwerk, latin mass, music, musical comedy, part troll, stand-up, stand-up comedy, telegraph, theater
