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June 15, 2007 2:07 PM

'Sup y'all! This week, we gonna peep inside the dope pad of your favorite French experimental filmmaker, Michel Gondry! (one-link super-deluxe flash video post. pardonnez-moi.)
posted by progosk (21 comments total)

I dont get it. Is this a joke?
posted by subaruwrx at 2:23 PM on June 15, 2007

And that's what Robin Williams is like without coke and after spending two months in Paris.
posted by Keith Talent at 2:25 PM on June 15, 2007

Based on his films and videos I always imagined he had a very annoying personality. Wow, does he ever.

He reminds me of the few customers encountered in retail who become "regulars" who just will not go away. (As opposed to the regulars who you wish would hang out longer.)
posted by dobbs at 2:25 PM on June 15, 2007

dobbs, you realize this is fake, yes?
posted by matt_od at 2:26 PM on June 15, 2007

Gondry kicks ass. He can solve a Rubik's Cube with his feet!
posted by mullingitover at 2:27 PM on June 15, 2007

Fake as in that's not Gondry? Nope, didn't realize it. Only seen "him" once before and he looks vaguely like this guy if I remember correctly.
posted by dobbs at 2:34 PM on June 15, 2007

Ah, clicking mullingitover's link reveals the real Gondry (presumably).

Congrats takingthepissGondry! Ya had me fooled. (But I still imagine he's just like that.)
posted by dobbs at 2:36 PM on June 15, 2007

That's not my Michel! How dare you make my dreams soar only to have them crash, into my broken heart, which is now aflame.

*sob*
posted by piratebowling at 2:36 PM on June 15, 2007

"This is my real car, I built it myself out of a magic trick my father taught me when I was a boy."

Ahahaha.
posted by CitrusFreak12 at 2:47 PM on June 15, 2007

hilarious.
posted by jcruelty at 3:18 PM on June 15, 2007

French Borat.
posted by LordSludge at 3:48 PM on June 15, 2007

Does it work in FF2 for anyone? I just get a "LOADING ADS" message. I'm not gonna fire up IE again.
posted by mrgrimm at 5:59 PM on June 15, 2007

I highly recommend this dvd of Gondry's work, which includes his music videos. I get that there are people that just wont like his work, but I love it.
posted by jasonspaceman at 6:50 PM on June 15, 2007

Wow. I came here to comment that doing a parody of Cribs was about the most unimaginative and hackneyed comedy sketch that I could possibly conceive of someone doing, but then it turns out that somebody actually thought it was real! That's pretty incredible. So I guess not.
posted by ChasFile at 7:26 PM on June 15, 2007

Well I guess you've made it if you're now the subject of a spoof by some frat guys.

(Although there were some pretty good details there. "Once I found a newsticker buried in the garden." Name that Bjork video!)
posted by fungible at 7:47 PM on June 15, 2007

"I hate you, Penny Marshall!"

Heh.
posted by sugarfish at 7:55 PM on June 15, 2007

It's a damn shame that SuperDeluxe / Turner can't make this work in Firefox. Ta-ta!
posted by intermod at 9:31 PM on June 15, 2007

Worked for me on Firefox in Ubuntu Feisty.
posted by MarkO at 10:27 PM on June 15, 2007

ChasFile, I think it's more a reflection on my dislike for allthingsGondry that I thought it was legit. You coulda told me it was any number of people I can't stand (Joel Schumacher shows off his house!) and my idiotic prejudgement woulda said, "Yup, that's him in all his glory. What a maroon!"
posted by dobbs at 10:33 PM on June 15, 2007

fungible,

not to rain on your parade of belittlement-- but these guys are actually the Olde English comedy troupe (who are all graduates from Bard College) and have been featured here before, specifically in the case of that commercial with the "hand" guns.
posted by stresstwig at 12:41 AM on June 16, 2007

This was brilliant, thanks.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 9:57 AM on June 16, 2007