Thursday, February 24, 2005

The Star Wars Kid

Before Gary, Vince and Todd, there was The Star Wars Kid. This site tells the story:

"The Star Wars Kid was just goofing off at school. Now he finds his private performance downloaded by over 15 million Internet users across the world.

"The Star Wars Kid is a 15-year-old from Quebec known only as Ghyslain -- his parents are keeping his last name secret to protect his identity. Back in November 2002, Ghyslain was goofing off at a school video studio and recorded himself fighting a mock battle with a golf ball retriever lightsaber. Over two minutes, the video shows the lone, overweight teenager twirling his mock lightsaber ever faster while making his own accompanying sound effects."

The site has 106 remixed versions of the video.

Props to Mae for the tip.

Update: the links to most (if not all) the videos are down. :-(

Update: this site hosts a bunch of them.

2 comments:

JNB said...

So funny you found these. I had watched a few while searching for "Numanuma"

JNB said...

Sorry if I leave you choking on my dust ;)