The late Victor Borge was not only an accomplished classical pianist but a hilarious comedian to boot. In the early 1940s, Borge (originally Børge Rosenbaum) escaped the Nazi menace in Denmark, travelled to America, and started performing his now-famous routines. One of those skits is called Phonetic Punctuation, where Borge creates different silly sounds for the punctuation that he encounters as he reads a romantic story.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bpIbdZhrzA
Borge also did duets and a particularly funny one involved singer Marilyn Mulvey who valiantly tried to perform Caro nome from Rigoletto, despite the many interruptions from the pianist. See that clip after the jump.
More of Borge’s comedy routines can be seen on YouTube.
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2 replies on “Hilarious “Phonetic Punctuation” by Victor Borge”
That was classic :)
Hilarious. If you haven’t already, take a look at his “History of the Piano”.