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A bespectacled, lip-synching young man from the Jersey suburbs has
become the hottest thing to hit the Internet since the Spiridellis
brothers started making JibJab cartoons.
Gyrating before a Webcam to the techno beat of a Romanian pop song
without ever leaving his chair, Gary Brolsmas uncanny timing in a
video he calls Numa Numa Dance has Web watchers cracking up
around the globe and cramming the e-mail boxes of their friends
with links to the cyber hit.
Featured Thursday on NBCs Today show, the video has already
gotten more than a million hits on one Web site, according to one
report. On MSNBC.com, searches for this kid absolutely dominate
our site search today, according to producer Will Femia.
Brolsma, 19, of Saddle Brook, N.J., performs his hit to the strains
of O-Zones Dragostea Din Tei, a song that would be titled Love
Among the Linden Trees in English. The Numa Numa title of the
video is from a line in the song.
William Hung channeling Star Wars kid
So whats the video like? Imagine William Hung of American Idol
channeling the Star Wars' kid the last big cult hit in
computerland and you get the picture, said the New York Daily
News. The highlight may be the moment when he flicks his tongue at
the lens. Or maybe when he raises one eyebrow twice over his
wire-rimmed spectacles.
You wonder for a second when youre watching it, is this for
real, Joe Levy of Rolling Stone magazine told Matt Lauer of the
Today show. Is it a phenomenon? Oh, yeah. Are people richly
amused? Oh yes, very much so. So much, pointed out Lauer, that
Brolsmas handiwork made VH-1s Best Week Ever list.
Lauers own take: While many e-mails dont live up to their
promises to deliver humor, This one is the real deal.
© 2005 MSNBC Interactive
