YouTube Clip Of The Day

Ahh, it’s great to return to a world of ridiculous and pointless YouTube clips. As Janet Jackson once sang*, “You don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone” etc… So let us get straight to the Wednesday edition of YouTube Clip Of The Day, eh?

Today’s “piece” comes courtesy of Red Symons, who has created a slightly surreal and confusing (but we laughed uproariously regardless) clip featuring John Howard and Kevin Rudd.

According to a YouTube viewer, the translation goes as follows.

“Howard”: You and your Chinese friends present have many, many friends in Australia.

Rudd: My wife and I especially like Beijing.

“Howard”: You and your Chinese friends present have many, many friends in Australia.

Rudd: In the 1980’s, my wife and I – together with our young daughter – went to work in Beijing.

“Howard”: You and your Chinese friends present have many, many friends in Australia. Many many friends. Many many friends.

Rudd: We especially like Beijing’s atmosphere, people, and culture.

We briefly interviewed Red Symons about this groundbreaking work this morning.

DEFAMER AUSTRALIA: Red – have you been huffing bongs?

RED SYMONS: Not for a long time.

DEFAMER AUSTRALIA: Uh-huh.

RED SYMONS: But they do say it takes about thirty or forty years to get out of your system.

DEFAMER AUSTRALIA: Fair enough.

*Chillax, pedants. We realise it’s actually Joni Mitchell.