So Mean Magazine has this series called Cinemash where they take hip actors and have them re-enact older movies to create hilarious fish-out-of-water videos (or less optimistically, gasping-for-breath-while-slowly-dying videos). In their latest (video below), Charlyne Yi and Channing’s Tatum do a Dirty Dancing scene, as re-written by Paper Heart director Nicholas Jasenovec. It’s amazing how much funnier it gets just by making the original dialog 5% more verbose.
CHANNING: No, people treat me like I’m nuthin, ‘cause I am nuthin, baby. It’s got nuthin to do with you! Nuthin!
CHARLYNE: No! That’s not true!
CHANNING: No, you don’t know nuthin! You’re just a little Jewish girl from New York. You just got a cute little hook nose… I’m balancin’ on sh*t here, baby!
CHARLYNE: What do you mean balancing on sh*t!
CHANNING: Like, I’m tryina keep my balance, on a piece of sh*t!
CHARLYNE: It doesn’t have to be that way! You don’t have to balance on sh*t!
I love how they make it kind of excessive and self-referential. Tarantino-ized it, say. It’s like — whoa, time out, Channing Tatum shaves his pits? Not cool, bro. That’s up there with shaving your eyebrows on the weirdness scale. Shaving your own armpits is basically the equivalent shaving someone else’s ass.
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Now now, don’t jump to conclusions. How do you know he shaves his own pits? Maybe his boyfriend does it.
Channing puts his baby oil in the corner.
My normal repertoire of racist screeds is rendered powerless by your ironic musings. Curse you, hipsters!
Channing Tatum shaves his armpits to be more areodynamic when he blows men.
There needs to be a word simpler than “parody”.
Careful Vince. Channing Tatum heard the phrase “shaving someone else’s ass” and booked a flight to NYC.
IIII haaad the time of my liiiife, cause I was blowing all these duuuudes…
Nobody puts Chinese-Americans in an internment camp.
Paris Hilton shaves her Sarlaac Pit.
i will gladly put charlyne yi in the corner
worst google result ever for shaved asian sex scene
michel gondry’s version of charlyne yi would come out looking like a down syndrome fozzy bear
OK, does the Cookie Monster look like Godzilla to you, or is it just me?
Does Channing Tatum have a mirror for his pitscaping?
That Asian chick looks like a 5 year old in that wig.
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The dancing is less “dirty” and more like “full of lead paint” if China’s the one exporting it.