Trololo guy watches fans imitate him on YouTube

In the video above, the guy the internet knows now as "Mr Trololo," whose real name is Eduard Khil, is interviewed by Russian journalists in Saint-Petersburg while he watches and comments on a number of fan-videos created by his internet admirers. Watch the video.

Among the funnier remixes of the original clip is "Trololo guy without Autotune," from College Humor.

(via Ethan Zuckerman, thanks weaponx)

• [bbbaldie]

  This guy rocks. We should all take ourselves less seriously.

• [Anonymous]

  OMG! Trololo dance versión, with girls dancing!!! Cool!!!

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqdopEYdaHo

• [ike]

  This feels like an even stronger case of a meme looping back on itself than Gary Brolsma and the Numa Numa Dance. It also feels a little like watching a snake eat its own tail. Awesome and *weird*.

  I love how he leads the crew in the studio in song at the end – it’s fun to see someone else have so much fun.

• [weaponx]

  The remix on CollegeHumor called “Trololo Without Autotune” is ridiculously funny:
  http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1930493

  • [gATO]

    Trololololo shreds!?!

• [A. B. Itch]

  I love you, Mr. Trololo.

• [Anonymous]

  Now I know what true grace is. What a cool guy!

• [Antinous / Moderator]

  It was nice of the history museum to lend him a tie.

• [ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive]

  It’s nice to see the creator of an internet meme who actually deserves the attention. Give this guy a TV show here in the States. I would watch it.

• [mattdidthat]

  Eduard Khil addresses the Internet!

• [Chang]

  You know, I genuinely like the song. The guy’s got a damn good voice and he’s a great man to be able to look at the sudden furor around it and smile. It’s what I listen to first thing in the morning. The guy’s a genius.

• [JoshP]

  what’s weirder than trololo? Pravda is still around… who knew?

• [BattyMcDougall]

  Was just about to post his international response. I see it’s already been covered.
  He still sounds like a ridiculously admirable fellow. Canadian’s might just have it easy in this contest- ‘Yeh’ is far too similar to ‘Eh.’
  Oh stereotypes, how I love you.

• [Anonymous]

  He says that these aren’t parody videos, but rather videos of people sharing in the joy of the song. By being such a cool, lighthearted guy, he makes this statement ring true.

  • [Anonymous]

    Can’t they be one and the same?

• [InsertFingerHere]

  When was the original shot? Cuz I thought it looked so old, the guy would be dead by now… and then this Internet angle pops up.. kind of blew my mind.

  And I look forward to more from Christoph Waltz. He was really good in that bit.

  • [grimc]

    1966. And now he’s asking people to write lyrics and at a yet-to-be-determined date and time, he wants to get together with people via internet and everyone will sing together!:

    http://www.neatorama.com/2010/03/15/eduard-khil-responds-to-his-internet-fame/

• [Dave H]

  He is great. When I first heard his song, I was thinking What the F is this?
  Then it caught me by the ear and became stuck in my head, but I did not mind–it was such a happy tune.

  Yes, Eduard, people are doing these covers because you make them happy. “Cpaciba” for your performance. (sorry: no cyrillic font)

• [x4e71]

  Don’t miss Oscar winner Christoph Waltz’ trololo parody! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwY4LuADupw

  • [chgoliz]

    Holy FSM, that was gut-splitting. Thanks, x4e71!

• [bornonbord]

  For some reason, I felt like this is a scene out of a movie.

  “malkovich malkovich malkovich. malkovich malkovich? malkovich malkovich malkovich. malkovich!”

• [Anonymous]

  they didn’t show him the Trololo Cat?

• [billso]

  He does have a great sense of humor about all of this hubbub over an old Soviet-era variety program.

• [Uniquack]

  I knew I’d seen him before. It’s Mathesar!
  (http://l.yimg.com/eb/ymv/us/img/hv/photo/movie_pix/dreamworks_skg/galaxy_quest/enrico_colantoni/gq.jpg)
  Clearly, the Soviets were in contact with the aliens long before Americans.

• [baracudaboy]

  Lol, thats awesome. I thought the trololo thing was a super old video that people had just discovered. Its really cool to see how like, it actually got coverage and everything. XD
  And that dude rocks!

• [Anonymous]

  He brings sunshine to communism. :D

• [Ceronomus]

  Wonderful, absolutely wonderful. His grace and charm and handling of this as something fun as opposed to something insulting put him head and shoulder above American celebs and their kneejerk responses to most things.