Halloween is over, but Christopher Walken’s powerful dramatic reading of Lady Gaga’s eminent piece of poetry, “Poker Face,” on BBC1’s Friday Night With Jonathan Ross will boast a YouTube time stamp of Oct. 31, 2009 forever. Witness a haunting lyrical miracle, below.
I already like Walken’s interpretation better than Lady Gaga’s, but the jury’s still out for me on whether Eric Cartman’s more “melodic” effort on last week’s South Park (featured at the end of last week’s Sound Bites video and embedded after the jump — that song takes on a whole different meaning with a guttural male voice, huh?) was more effective than Walken’s. Who wore it better? Oh, well. It’s not a contest. I mean: Ohhhhhhhhhh!
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Cartman singing poker face was toooo funny.
walken’s is hilarious! he needs to host snl again, i want to go to the continental.
Jude Law did the same thing on Jimmy Fallon… its a push between Jude and Christopher, but still fantastical!
Walken reading Lady Gaga? GENUIS!!
Genius actor meets lowest common denominator trash. Loves it!
The best part of Walken’s vid is seeing the other guests and Ross cracking up. Too funny.
Ok, that was awesome and who knew Lady Gaga songs actually had lyrics?
The answer is (C), none of the above. The real winner is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGH5ygIKyT0 (Lady Gaga vs Christopher Walken, by djleekee)
Is Southpark still on? Walken was waaaaaaay funnier! I agree he needs to host another SNL, the damn continental is always too much!
OMG Walken was so much funnier. me and my friends do that all the time. seriously read lyrics to silly songs and laugh so hard. But while Walken was reading I started to get a fever. I was getting cow bell fever. IT NEEDS MORE COW BELL
Must See’s: Jonathan Ross and Graham Norton. Funnier than most of our late-night gabbers!
On a somewhat unrelated topic: I love Dara O’Briain!
Was that Dominic Cooper as one of the guests laughing in the background?
Yeah, that was him.
Jjajaja! That was awesome!
I guess if the covers are so good it’s because it’s such a great song, right??
My favorite it’s still Cartman’s version XD