Finnish here. I used to work as a bouncer at a karaoke bar. I once saw someone perform this song, and they fell off their chair as well :D Dedication!

@korpimuisto

Ай бұрын

FiNnIsH hErE aS a FiN

@DerMacko

15 күн бұрын

@@korpimuisto älä ny tollasta, nolaat ittes

You just found the Finnish legandary genius Vesa-Matti Loiri. We all died in front of our TV when this was first shown.

@oltzu5206

Ай бұрын

May he rest in peace

@florenna

Ай бұрын

I can attest to that!!

@FoxyGuyHere

27 күн бұрын

Never found any of his boomer humor funny

@pale_saint

24 күн бұрын

@@FoxyGuyHereyou find the gay zoomer non humor better, yes?

@FoxyGuyHere

24 күн бұрын

@@pale_saint I don't know what that is but probably

The pianist, Olli Ahvenlahti, is one of the giants of Finnish jazz / jazz fusion.

Loiri sung this _live_, many times, and always laughed in the rhythm, and sounded natural every time. In addition to comedy he did very convincing serious movie roles, stage plays, he played the flute, he participated in the Eurovision Song Contest - he did _everything_. One of the most talented Finnish performers ever.

@user-js5sh7rb8v

Ай бұрын

+ Sports. Water polo (3*Finnish champion), handball (Finnish champion), serious also in soccer, tried boxing, really good in billiards (was also chairman of Finnish billiards accosiation in 90's), hockey in third highest level in some point... Talk about versatility.

@Jokervision744

Ай бұрын

Talented and brave as lion.

@talvetar3385

27 күн бұрын

An opinion.

Vesa Matti Loiri was an exceptionally talented man. He was an actor, singer, dancer. He lived his life in a very bohemian manner to the very end. He passed 10th August 2022. It was told by his friends that he was not the slightest afraid of dying. He believed in after life, or incarnation. He was a very spiritual man. Possibly not religious but spiritual. He spent a lot of time in the Northern part of Finland, in Lappland. He loved the nature, the quiet and peace.

@sannaseesvalo2602

23 күн бұрын

And he was very talented flutist also. And pool/biljard player.

@jane_7193

22 күн бұрын

@@sannaseesvalo2602 Yes, Vesa-Matti Loiri was an exceptionally gifted human being.

Even fake laughter can make you laugh. It's contagious.

@sande9232

Ай бұрын

That is exactly what laughyoga is. Instructor makes fake laugh until everybody starts laughing for real and it's hard to stop after it has started.

🎉🎉🎉🎉😂! The guy is a legend!! Fun fact! he made a career on falling down !! He's the greatest comedian of all time!!😂😂🎉 R.I.P Vesku!! ❤

@klauskuusela8486

Ай бұрын

He was real multi talent as actor and musician. Even with some sports

This song makes you laugh every time. Oldie but goldie. 🤣

@SPPhotography89

23 күн бұрын

niimpä

All the best from Finland to you. That actor was well known actor here. 👍

Loiri created many memorable characters. Here's one from the list: "Uncle Nasse by Vesa-Matti Loiri".

@leopartanen8752

Ай бұрын

Nasse-setä 😁👍🏻 m.kzread.info/dash/bejne/omaFz8igc8S6naw.html (eng sub)

@Aurinkohelmi

Ай бұрын

Nasse setä my childhood nightmare 😅

@finnishculturalchannel

Ай бұрын

@@Aurinkohelmi Probably why Uncle Nasse was allowed to stay on the air only, if he wore a false nose big enough to cover his face: "Nasse-Setä - XXL-nenä".

@plantylali

Ай бұрын

I had to run to another room when he came on! 😅

@elq9405

Ай бұрын

​@@plantylaliHe was quite scary indeed!

It's a classic song, very funny and the laughter is so contagious.

This song, originally a country song from the States, 1953, called Gambler's Guitar was the best-selling single record in Germany from 1957 by Fred Bertelmann. It was called Der lachende Vagabund (The laughing tramp). Here the singer is parodying French night-club artists. Your song, the Italian patriotic 1858 Paolo Giorza 'risorgimento' tune is called La Bella Gigogin (Teresina). It was directed by the Milanese against the prevailing Austrian rule of the time and became very popular. I've heard the Gigliola Cinquetti.

@osk9013

Ай бұрын

The original you mentioned was by Jim Lowe.

Yes he was the same guy who played Uuno Turhapuro, this song is a classic. Rap artist Elastinen did 2013 new version, in front of Vesa-Matti Loiri (Uuno/Kusela etc) in show Vain elämää. If you find it, hope you like it ;) Sadly Loiri passed away two years ago :( He was my hero. And this video is not from a movie, its a from a tv show called Spede Show :)

Did you notice that in the end scene, the gentleman at left is the same person as the singer, multitalent Vesa-Matti Loiri. So beloved actor, singer and artist that when he died two years ago, it was a national news, almost like a former president had died.

@elq9405

Ай бұрын

And just before he died, he received a letter from Jenni Haukio (the wife of Finlands president back then). She wrote so beautifully about how much she always had admired him and about his importance for the Finnish culture that he cried when reading the letter.

Yes, the same actor who played Uuno Turhapuro, i.e. Vesa-Matti "Vesku" Loiri. Vesku's most well-known and funnier characters also include Nasse-setäand Tyyne

I love this so much, it is impossible not to laugh when watching this xD

Jean-Pierre Kuse(l)la is pronounced "Saan Pierrä Kusella". Read: I can fart when I piss. Wordplay.

@mauronicolo89

Ай бұрын

ahaha

Thank you Mauro, this was a hearty, wholesome video that just made my day! You pronounce Finnish very well, and seeing such a lovely video would probably make everyone happy. The world needs this - especially now. God bless you 😊

@mauronicolo89

Ай бұрын

Thank you so much for your kind words , really appreciate it!

Omg I love you from Finland ❤

One of the immortal classics of Vesa-Matti Loiri😄 In a grim place like Finland this is priceless 🇫🇮💜

We had that song on an LP in the 80s. My younger brother used to play it a lot :D

It was a custom to make finnish versions from popular songs back in the day. This is one of them while being comedy one. Song called roughly "I'm a finn" (Olen suomalainen by Kari Tapio, this is considered as "patriotic" song) is remake from song called L'Italiano. Great video. Thank you.

This was listened to so much when I was little that the C-cassette tape stretches. I still remember when this came on TV.

Hi here from Finland this still makes me laugh😂😂😂

Rest in peace Vesa-Matti♥️ best of thö best of thö best.

You need watch this video: Spede show - practical english in practice

The end was an Muppet show old guys spoof

It is bonkers how a Finish 1980s comedy show that is pure camp shown by you. I love Vesku and admire what he did and achieved in his career. He was a bit tragic but nonetheless a true talent and great showman.

As a finnish person I can agree that Laughing is very contagious 😂 and no matter how many times I watch this the out come for me is always the same thanks for reacting to this one 😂

Oh mamma mia I cant stop laughing , Mauro this so great 🤣🤣😁😂😅😅

Loiri was a multi-talented person and he did the things he liked, not the "jobs" that didn't interest him enough.

This song can be an earworm. 😅

It's not from the movie. It's a sketch from Finnish comedy show called "Spede Show". Uuno Turhapuro also came from that show, and later got movies.

@promealiens9659

Ай бұрын

the Spede show episode was shown in 1971, where Uuno Turhapuro appeared for the first time. This episode from the 80s.

There is a classic comedy bit from a show called Velipuolikuu, called "Pääsiäishanukas", which is equally absurd, and somehow very Finnish. I know it's available somewhere with English subtitles, but I couldn't find where. The Finnish version is on YT.

Hi Mauro, I guess some Finnish person has already told you that in Finland we have the names Maura (woman) and Mauri (man) but not Mauro. 😊

SOITA PUPPE!!

@elq9405

Ай бұрын

Ei palkka muuten juokse!

This is from Finnish comedy show and singer Mr. Loiri is famous for falling on stage as an act among other things (acting, singing, sports, musician).

Loiri was a menace, he had 4 finnish championships in differend fields. Which is why he could also be very athletic comic with like jumping and falling around. Three was from waterball and one for handball, yes niche fields but it's not easy to get even local championship at anything. He was on finnish national series football team as a goalie (would have most likely made like global national team if he had time to play as the nr.1 thing, he only did one full finnish professional season). Took boxing seriously enough to have 3 showmatches that he won 2 of those, those wasn't any dive matches just to say.. but wanting to push himself and see what would happen. He was veryvery good pool player and at best 14th in finnish national competitions. He also played hockey goalie on like third stage to pro games but didn't think it was quite his thing which is kinda crazy when you can hang even in those games and that's your eeeh thing while doing so much (to not be completely bias tho, so many in here goes for hockey since young so it is harder field.. but then again even if Finland doesn't shine in football many does also do that for it being way more affordable for families). That's like just the side-stuff of really kinda hobbies since he obviously was an entertainer. Did also sing like not in joky manner but could actually sing and did make records. Acted dramas and comedy till the end. Was a comedian in a sense of stage gigs also on top of comedy movies. Like a lot of say Uuno things just doesn't hold as being neccesarily overall that funny to this day (they have been made so guerrilla that many jokes just being tired in todays standards), but there is some so good gem scenes in the movies. Especially with Loiri's physicality with the character that he made what it was (even if the director/writer had some grudge with that which is kinda sad, for him too being seen as a national treasure so to kinda be almost envy for Loiri getting the credit for the character when everyone knows it wouldn't work without both and it is written For Him. Like nobody else can do it and Loiri came up with a lot of stuff. I remember living as a little kid in the same area and seeing the guy Spede driving brand new some muscle car past us in 90's. Like I just remember that it was a car no one else could afford/you would not see on the road and the guy Spede had a very defined look to him and it For Sure was him driving it). The character is like an alcoholic con-man who sways thru life somehow always winning, but he somehow makes it beleavable that the guy takes a hot woman from some man by say.. A scene there would come some thing of Uuno not for example playing pool/tennis whatever but because a woman shows up and he happens to put every ball at once inside and would then show a confidence that would be enough for the viewer to even buy the thing (something akin). That is Hard in that gear/look to make it something anyone would buy even in comedic sense. He was able. Dude was so unique as a person. Actually also a weird thing is that my friend attended the funeral since he plays as an opener for a guy who was an attendee and his wife didn't want to go so he just went for having asked. Told how absurd it was since he ìs just like a guy trying to make living off of music and there is all finnish big names, media outside, just heard he got a happy send off as he would have wanted. Like a lot of artists so they more like celebrated his life than the basic of grieving of death.

Muppet Show reference at the end! 👍😊

I have this on vinyl.

Loiri was an incredibly talented performer ❤ He did many comedic roles, and from what I've heard it made him feel trapped for deacades in the 80's and 90's as a "funny entertainer" in the work he was offered. I think he was good at the comedy but at his very best at the drama. Apparently he'd said, before he died few years back (he had health issues, he knew that he was going) that he is curious to see what comes next ❤

Vesa-Matti Loiri did play these characters. R.I.P

There's funny story behind the characters for this show. Loiri wanted to make parody about french chancon singers and specially of famous Jean-Claude Pascal. The funny thing comes from Pascal's name as it sounds in finnish ears that someone is literally taking a shit. To match with that, he ended to have a character name Kusela which is close to finnish word kusella meaning to urinate. Jazz pianist Olli Ahvenlahti plays character Puppe, gay pianist from Sweden. Not surprisingly, when they had band in some songs, the band also was called Tunnelbana Pojkar (Tunnelbana Boys), which refers to Stockholms metro/underground where young gays hooked up in the seventies and eighties before AIDS crisis. In the eighties you could joke about these kind of things without fear of cancellation or woke and swedes were always joked to be gays in jokes by finns. Loiri also had very popular female character Tyyne Syväskökkö-Lipasti.

The original song is Jim Lowe - Gambler's guitar.

you need to see full song..... jean pierre kusela- naurava kulkuri

this is a classic, starts as a fake laughter, you think nahh horrible, but then it developes, suddenly it's not so fake, and soon not fake at all, actually, you're crying of laughter.

Loiri was in Eurovision song contest in 1980

Vesa-Matti Loiri (singer here) was better genie in Aladdin (Finnish dub) than Robin Williams. In my opionion at least.

Fun fact: The name Jean-Pierre Kusela associates to the French singer-actor Jean-Claude Pascal. Kusella=peeing, paskalla=pooing.

@janemiettinen5176

28 күн бұрын

It sounds like “I can pee while farting”, saan pierrä kusella.

I can't watch this with a straight face, it is impossible.

Do you know what "Kusela" mean in Finland. That is almost like Finnish "pee" word. When Finns say: Olen kusella, that mean "I am pee (now)"

@mauronicolo89

Ай бұрын

ahaha

@cubertmiso

26 күн бұрын

You mean "I'm peeing" its a verb.

The original is Jim Lowe - Gambler's guitar (1953). Kusela's version is made from german cover Fred Bertelman - Der Lachende Vagabund (1958) version What were your thoughts about his appearance, a caricature of 19th century Southern-European dandy?

I was surprised when a Finnish children's song became a disco hit in Italy in the 90s. In Italian, you can't understand anything about the lyrics, and it's mostly nonsense in Finnish too. It's so interesting that e.g. in Finland, the same form is used for Italian cities as in Italy, with some exceptions. For example, The Ladies' Paradise is Milanon naisten paratiisi (Milan's Paradise of ladies) in Finnish.

@promealiens9659

Ай бұрын

Stefano (linguaEpassione) has made good videos about the Finnish language.

was not from a movie but yet a tv comedy show called the spede show produced by legendary Spede Pasanen

That ending was from the Muppets ;-)

❤

Remember that every laughter during this song is fake and pure acting, Vesa-Matti Loiri could have sung this song with poker face if needed. One of his many skills was this fake laughter that sounded so realistic that you can't watch it without laughing. 😂

I put this playing on car stereo, when my girlfriend was driving. We almost crashed.

Uuno is Best ❤

😂😂😂

R.i.p Vesa-Matti Loiri (the singer)

I think this is based on song: "Gambler's guitar".

Loiri was amazing comedian and singer. And in Jean Pierre Kusela's role he kidna showed off both of his talents. And despite this clip is old... it still makes people laugh. You might consider this gem as the ultimate try not to laugh challenge. This performance wasn't in a movie, it was in TV-comedy series called Spede Show and also later in Vesku Show. -It kinda is sad that majority of best comedy ever made in Finland was made in late 70 to 90s. After that... it's been sad. There really have not been anything as funny ever since those golden comedy series. I dare you to react to some other Vesa-Matti Loiri's songs. I just accidently... ok, as finn, I got curious about ok what does Italian person has to say about the comedy gem. So I really do not yet know have you checked or don't really expect you to, to check some of his more serious music stuff.

Soita Puppe soita, minä olen saanut lempinmen tuon spottajan mukaan ja vieläkin se kulkee mukana. En onnistunut pysymmään penkillä, mutta nauran edelleen. Kiitos vesku... kaikesta:)

Italian accent sounds very close to finnish accent.

European music, especially Italian classics or cultural essentials where translated or made to fit Finnish lyrics. A lot of that is in 60's, 70's and 80's music. I find it strange. For example: in Japan, the "city pop" genre was popular and fantastic sounding, why was that not "exported" (so to speak) to europe or Finland? Italian music is beautiful and good pop music too, just wondering musical things after watching this.

🇫🇮🤣❤️

And the words you can't get if don't know Finnish... or finns

F I N L A N D

That's all youtube suggests. I'm suffering from broken ribs while trying not to laugh at the same time. Laughing hurts.

Biggest mystery is how Puppe was able to play and not laugh.

There is even better version of this here in KZread sung by him also. This version doesn't make me laugh as much as the other.

😆😆😆😆😆😆

I wonder what he is smoking...🤔

😂 You should't have snack or drink while watching this 😂

@mauronicolo89

Ай бұрын

ahaha

I don´t wanna be a party pooper, but you will NEVER understand fully Uuno Turhapuro, or other Vesamatti Loiri scenes. He uses so much words, that are unusual and funny to us Finns too. They can´t be translated at any languages. But if you get some fun of it anyways, that is nice. You just lack much.

Watch Kummeli - Eros Ramazzotti😂😂😂

🤘😂🤣💙🇫🇮👍 😂🌛

suomi is the best in the whole world!

Why this video pop up to me? And how did you find this old classic video from Finland. Just wondering?

@mauronicolo89

28 күн бұрын

I'm glad youtube does its job fine ahah It was requested by a lot of finns , i am loving finnish comedy!

@tuula9857

28 күн бұрын

@@mauronicolo89 I'm 70, and we lauhgt with Loiri here in Finland when I was young. Thank you for this video, and I appreciate your work.

The original is "Gambler's Guitar" by Jim Lowe (1953). His laugh is really forced compared to this.

.. just a followup.. You will get these if you get some idea of what is going on.. BUT mandatarory is getting ... what's that about.. since... well ask anyone minimum 40-- also not A movie..

what...or her...!?

Io recordo che io sara dieci anni. Mi piace Naurava kulkuri ma mia madre pensa che lei era stupida. Io vuole comprato lei recordo ma io ho non soldi e mia madre parli che no, noi non comprato Jean Pierre Kusela casetta :) Mi piace, mia italiana e non perfetta.

Oh this about 30y or more old.. and... the actual point is laughing. all other stuff is for effect

The original version has better laughing parts than this, he sounds hes going to suffocate in that :D

They are mocking french singer Jean Claude Pascal. And you know that Paska means in finnish shit. Kusela infers to piss, so there is a little joke in his name.

@janemiettinen5176

28 күн бұрын

Saan pierrä kusella.

@mauronicolo89

28 күн бұрын

ahaha

I always hated this and it was never funny for me.

I want to react to your reaction of Israel song to the Eurovision. The reason I'm reacting here because you close the comment section.... if you want to spread love don't talk about something You don't know. Talk about music. You should educate yourself a little bit more about the situation what happened in October in Israel... You have 77,000 followers be responsible and understand the situation better don't follow the crowd. They don't know where is the sea and where is the river Don't be one of them

@mauronicolo89

Ай бұрын

The main point of closing the comment section in that video was that nobody understood my point and i was attacked for it by basically everyone or applauded by pro palestinians . I don't favor anyone in an armed conflict , and mine was a critique to the Eurovision policy reguarding the exclusion of Russia from its competition. Their motive was of the invasion of Russia on another country, Israel did do the same, I don't see how this could result as a fake news... i am not saying they did not have a reason to do so, i am just saying it happened and this is just being ignored showing the lack of intellectual honesty by the organization. Correct me if im wrong, i look forward to see your video, we are all humans if we make a mistake it's good to be thought what that was and learn from it.

The main point ...you compare Israel to Russia and this is your mistake. Israel got attacked on October 7..... You should apologize

@mauronicolo89

Ай бұрын

You do realize that my critique was to the Eurovision commitee and it is not towards Israel or the conflict? I compared their reasoning because both countries did invade another country , so since Russia was excluded for doing so, i don't see a reason to not behave in the same manner now. I never condamned any political decision , my heart goes to all the family of the people that were killed during the terrorist attack by Hamas and also to all the people in the world that has to suffer because of any armed conflict.