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Christopher Walken reads Where the Wild Things Are

Cory Doctorow at 12:19 pm Wed, Mar 14, 2012

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Here's Christopher Walken reading and narrating Where the Wild Things Are, a treat to rival Samuel Jackson's dramatic interpretation of Go the Fuck to Sleep.

Where the Wild Things Are (as read by Christopher Walken)

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charming.quark

“Please, children, schootch closer. Don’t make me tell you, again, about the schootching.”
- SomeGuyNamedMark
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpZazF6bL7w
show me

I listened to it. Pretty good but it needs more cow… aw, heck I can’t do it.
- Pedantic Douchebag
  
  ::lowers pistol::
huskerdont

“…and there’s a goat-bastard riding on the back of some kind of, you know, rhinoceros.”

Awesome.
EarthtoGeoff

In case you were not satiated, there’s also his classic reading of The Three Little Pigs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vNk4K3YaIc
Rhett Holechek

His description of the pics is best…bear suicide…classic Walken.
bcsizemo

Where the wild things … Are.

I think the universe might end if Walken impersonated Shatner…(or vice versa).
http://www.nathanhornby.com/ Nathan Hornby

That was brilliant.
rauscha

Just to clarify, this is just an impression, right?
- rasputinaxp
  
  Very much so, yes.
IamInnocent

Apparently, trees growing into water (more likely near it) are freaking him out but the rest, including a lynched Teddy Bear is OK…
- Robert
  
  Don’t forget the bugs, oh, those are flowers with bug ears.
PaulDavisTheFirst

the tags on the YT post mention “impression” and “imitation” … just sayin’. its still very funny.
http://profile.yahoo.com/I7K5HDK25V7JZOXG6DDRGGJ32E Leelu

evil ernie…. goat bastard… spooning… this is hilarious!
Mister44

Let’s not forget the classic Rev. Jesse Jackson and the reading of Green Egg and Ham.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=517149115 Dylan Miles

It would be a lot better if it were actually Walken.
- BarBarSeven
  
  It’s more like Christopher Balkin’!
petsounds

Fact-checking: apparently not a thing for Boing Boing in twenty twelve.
- ToddBradley
  
  You could demand a full refund of your subscription price.
  - Pedantic Douchebag
    
    But it’s easier to demand facts!
Cowicide

His mudder called ‘em… wild.. thang.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_RF6KIZL33HXKRAHHJPTKXMFHNU russ

You must appreciate the Golan-Globus production of ‘Puss In Boots’ with Christopher Walken as a red-haired puss. Hulu has it.