i caught 18 seconds of this corny, pseudo-singing Jack Nicholson Joker impersonator in another video and instantly tried reverse image search to try and find the source. what ended up working was googling a few lines from his celebrity impressions bit.
this is glorious cheese of the finest quality
as you can see becoming jokerfied meant something very different back then
high points [edit: timestamps are for earlier now-deleted embed]:
0:00 host Deborah Norville's accent pronouncing "Batman"
0:48 delivery of "ESPECIALLY BATMAN, HA HA HA HA!" ➡ Nicholsonian modulations
1:30 triumphant song finale followed by random corny impressions, because
2:04 it is Fred Travalena, goofy celeb impressions guy. (Norville: "I didn't guess it!")
it's all bookended by canned commentary from Willard "he can work for the government!" Scott and Deborah "that's great!" Norville that adds a certain boomers-in-their-prime je ne sais quoi. this is the stuff
the full parade, for the anthropological edification of fellow denizens of holy future century 2023
it has at least one more amazing little number... well, no. i'll save it for a future post 😌
i see Cohost has no parades tag yet. let me fix that