The actors are actually musicians, Heikki Silvennoinen playing Speedy (dark haired one) is extremely talented blues guitarist, also used to play in progressive rock. The whole Kummeli thing started from him being goofy in tour bus, and people finding him funny. Though he is quite opposite in real life.

The Kummeli guys are actually legitimate musicians. They wrote a few songs for the TV show that they play live on festivals as those characters.

@petertapola8097

2 ай бұрын

Tuomiopäivä! (Doomsday)

Probably their best characters and still funny in 2024!

Thei blacked haired guy is actually in real life one of the best blues quitarists in Finland

They keep calling the beer gepardi - which means cheetah. It's just because it's quite close to keppana, another slang term for beer, which itself comes from keskikalja - middle beer, meaning the kind that has 2,8-4,7% alcohol.

@TaneliKakkavirta

Ай бұрын

NO, ITS BCS THE BEERS NAME IS GEPARDI AND IT HAS GEPARDI AS ITS LOGO, AND ITS ALCOHOL BUT NOT BEER.

speedy & saku sketches are one of my favorites forever!

Kummeli parodies heavy rockers, but they parody all musical styles and musical traditions of different countries. It was due to the fact that three of Kummel's members are professional musicians and they had already had a music career before Kummel's TV career. Heikki Silvennoinen, or Saku in this sketch, was and is one of Finland's best rock guitarists. He had started his career in a prog band and of course knew how to parody prog as well as jazz and blues, etc., etc. When Kummeli hit his stride, Kummeli performed at festivals and other music gigs both as a band and as Kummeli's comedy characters. On the other hand, Kummel's musician members have had their own music careers in addition to their TV and film careers. I also don't think that the music parodies annoyed even the heavy circles in Finland, because Kummeli was "equal" in their parodies and the characters were so over the top and at the same time still recognizable.

its Spinal Tap moments all the time, when you are playing guitar in heavymetal band

When they say "marsu" as a nickname for Marshall, marsu is guinea pig coincidentally. And when they say "gepardi", that's the word for cheetah in Finnish. And it's not booze they find, it's beer. In Finland the common beer in the stores and to drink is class III beer, 2,9...4,7% alcohol (obviously all of them are 4,6% in the shelf). It's called "keskikalja" ("middle beer") and when you twist that into nicknames it can become kolmonen (3), keskari (keskisormi, middle finger), keppana or gepardi among many others. So imagine that this aired when I was a kid, as pre-teen I started playing guitar and rock and as a teenager I was in a metal band and grew a long hair. Can you imagine the times I've heard about these guys when my family and friends have teased me? These characters sparked so many catchphrases that stuck in common language. Like "is it a lot or a little" or "yeah yeah, the artist will pay!" From a classic sketch where they get a record deal and don't know who that artist dude is that people talk about, but are very happy that he's paying for all their costs. My British friend was devastated when she learned that you can't find any of Kummeli exported or translated officially.

@somefool4625

2 ай бұрын

Hiljaa juppi. Iso olut.

Classic Kummeli, those 2. There was one where they are trying to get a record deal and they end up getting one where the artist pays for everything. "Artisti maksaa!".

@JohanLahtinen

2 ай бұрын

I finally understand that reference 😅

You should react to Keinosen nimipäivä by Kummeli

how about aziz combat fighter?

They are comedians, but actually also musiciens....so they are really playing those guitars😂

@rempseaheinamies9414

2 ай бұрын

Heikki soittaa, Timo ei.

Metal music guys look and sound tough but are the biggest goofballs and sweethearts Finland has to offer ❤

3 of the Kummeli guys are teachers. Don't know how much they have actually worked as such.

@6St6Jimmy6

2 ай бұрын

Timo Kahilainen at least was teaching back in the day when my mom was in school.

About those job opportunities: "Heavy Trip/Hevi reissu (2018) - Birth of Impaled Rectum" and "Pizza Enrico - Mitä Sinä Sanoa".

Kummeli was a catalyst for creation of YLE merchandise shop since they advertised Kummeli T-shirts and people wanted them so YLE finally started the shop where nowadays you can buy a stuff from series etc.. they were first sold at lobby but later on they got a room and now its really big business...

"Jee jee🤟"

This is a true classic. Still, to my money, the audition for their band and a club gig scetch is even better. They perform an original song Hän-mies (He man). 😂 Moreover, Heikki Silvennoinen's Band (the one with the black hair) Tabula Rasa is worth checking. 70s prog rock sang in Finnish. A bit Jethtro Tullish. 😅 It has not aged that well but is had some great musicians back in the day.

You should listen speedy ja saku: tuomionpäivä. 🤘🏻🤘🏻

Been on the scene at teenager,they did great comedy on some parts that I can remember happened in real life too. 🤘

Speedy and Saku are the best🤟🏻 I used to have a dark gray cat named Speedy and an orange cat named Saku after these guys❤

Speedy and Saku are based on real people. Two very well known rock fans, avid drinkers from Vaasa are their origins. They look just like their real life counterparts.

Speedy & Saku - Tuomionpäivä

You should really react to mandelins video about Vappu

Yes, it's a parody of heavy metal fans. The Finnish heavy metal artists, whom the skit is making a parody of (at the stage when they were still fans), were already making a name for themselves internationally at the point the skit was made.

you should check more speedy&saku bits

Speedy on sairaan nopee ja artisti maksaa.

The other guy is my fathers cousin.. kummeli always so hilarious❤

they are like Beavis and Butt-head 😂

They could have checked guitar play tutors careers. Missed mark.

😆😆😆😆😆

I actually had two friends exactly like the characters on the video. That was back in the early 90'ies. Well, not exactly, they both had dark hair and no glasses but otherwise spot on. One played (or tried to play) guitar and the other one had to take the bass because there's no band without a bass player. Anyway, there was no band and never would've been because neither of them learned to play even the basics. The way they dressed, spoke, acted and had attitude, just like the guys in the video. It's so hilarious to watch.

😂🤣

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Artisti maksaa

The translation is pretty bad. The charm of these guys are how they talk and funny one-liners. 🤘🤘

@shredd5705

2 ай бұрын

"Tough guy" doesn't translate very well. "Karu äijä" is hard to translate, but it's definitely not "Tough guy". Maybe more like "Cool dude" but not that either

@MaaZeus

Ай бұрын

​@@shredd5705 a bad ass dude would be the closest equivalent I think.

Sammonkatu 14 kebab actually still the best in town

@arjuna-fn2pg

2 ай бұрын

Sammon-katu: street of Sampo (sic!)

@rikurodriguesneto6043

2 ай бұрын

@@arjuna-fn2pg Sampo was, in the finnish national epic Kalevala, a kind of machine which produced things people needed.