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  • Rapper’s Delight: Who Knew NBC’s Brian Williams Could Rap?

    Jimmy Fallon’s debut on The Tonight Show has been producing high ratings and Wednesday’s show was no exception. The former Late Night host showed a hilarious clip featuring a smooth-rapping Brian Williams – thanks to the painstaking editing job done by Fallon’s producers. Multiple news clips of Williams’ reporting were cleverly stitched together to the tune of Rapper’s Delight, the classic 1979 rap song by The Sugarhill Gang.

    Halfway through the music video, Williams’ rap solo turned into a duet as fellow Nightly News anchor Lester Holt showcased his own rapping “skills”. A split-second cameo courtesy of The Today Show co-host Kathie Lee Gifford is also shown, so watch the video carefully if you don’t want to miss it.

    Brian Williams And Lester Holt Rap

    http://youtu.be/-YCeIgt7hMs

    Jimmy Fallon officially took over the reins of The Tonight Show on February 17, 2014. The show’s premiere episode garnered impressive ratings as it dominated over CBS’s The Late Show with David Letterman and ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live. The appearance of several high-profile guests like Robert de Niro, Will Smith, Tina Fey, and U2 certainly helped pull in the numbers.

    During his stint on The Late Show, Fallon was known for showing funny sketches and viral video clips on his shows, owing to his experience on Saturday Night Live. The Brian Williams “Rapper’s Delight” remix might be an indication that Fallon and his team will be continuing the tradition on The Tonight Show.

    This is not the first time that Fallon has created videos of a rapping Brian Williams. Some of the mashups shown on Late Night featured hits from popular hip-hop artists like Snoop Dogg, Warren G, and N.W.A. The contrast of Williams’ charismatic and proper demeanor coupled with the lyrics of “Rapper’s Delight” provides the comedic gold in the video mashup. Williams recently discussed these videos with Fallon, and self-effacingly implied that younger audiences watch them as a form of punishment.

    Sugar Hill Gang’s Rapper’s Delight

    http://youtu.be/A8bKTzksZEw

    Brian Williams’ Greatest Hits

    http://youtu.be/8yr7ivVPhmY

    Image via YouTube

  • ‘Rapper’s Delight’ Cover Wows on ‘Tonight Show’

    It’s way too early to predict how successful Jimmy Fallon will be at replacing Jay Leno on The Tonight Show, but his first week is certainly off to a strong start. After teaming up with Will Smith to teach us about hip-hop dancing on Monday, Fallon aired a mashup video of NBC news anchor Brian Williams rapping Rapper’s Delight last night, and it is hilarious.

    Williams is in Sochi covering the Olympics–the only thing stopping him from rapping live, we’re sure–so Fallon’s tech team put together a series of clips from old broadcasts to form the cover of The Sugarhill Gang’s Rapper’s Delight. NBC’s Lester Holt joined Williams in the video, making the funny video even more over the top.

    Check out the Brian Williams cover of Rapper’s Delight below.

    It might be tough to wrap your mind around the words “to the bang bang boogie” coming out of Williams’s mouth, especially if you’ve never seen any of Fallon’s other Williams rap videos, but it certainly makes for some good laughs. Judging from the late night host’s Twitter account, Fallon was quite pleased with this one.

    If you enjoyed Rapper’s Delight, check out a couple more Williams rap mashup videos below.

    Since being uploaded to YouTube, the Rapper’s Delight video has been viewed more than a million times. That’s a far cry from the seven million hits Evolution of Hip-Hop Dancing has gotten so far, but the view count will probably pick up a bit as the video continues making its way around the Internet.

    In what will likely be the highlight of Jimmy Fallon’s first week as The Tonight Show host, First Lady Michelle Obama will appear on tonight’s episode. The last time Fallon and Obama teamed up we were given the amazing Evolution of Mom Dancing, so one can only imagine what the First Lady will be up to tonight.

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  • Sandra Bullock Raps “Rapper’s Delight” [VIDEO]

    Sandra Bullock Raps “Rapper’s Delight” [VIDEO]

    We all saw that Sandra Bullock could dance on her movie, “The Proposal”, but did you know she can rap too? Well, she can!

    Bullock performed part of the 1979 hip hop song, “Rapper’s Delight” by The Sugarhill Gang, when she appeared on “The Jonathan Ross Show”, the U.K. talk show, on October 12. The 49-year-old explained that she learned the lyrics to the song to impress a boy she liked in high school.

    “I learned the words because I liked this guy in high school, and I was like, ‘Next time I go to that dance, I’m going to know every word, and I’ll make sure he sees me lip-syncing it, and I’m going to catch his eye, and I’m gonna say the words, and he’s going to like me.’ ” Bullock said. “And sadly, it worked.”

    Apparently there was a lot of singing on the set of her newest movie “Gravity” also. She admitted she and George Clooney often rapped together during their down time on set.

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