This masterclass performance artist, whose name probably isn’t really Kenny “K-Strass” Strasser, has been going around to a bunch of small-market TV stations in the midwest recently. He claims to be a yo-yo champion, but he’s completely inept and spends most of his airtime working out his deep-seated personal issues, utterly baffling the hapless morning-show hosts and guaranteeing himself a place in Internet history. Everybody complains about local news (check out “Anchorman’s” dispatches from the inside), but this guy is doing something about it.
Deadspin has more. And K-Strass is on Twitter and Facebook.
Favorite K-Strass quote: When asked how long he’s been yo-yoing, he replies, “Oh gosh, um… When did Schubert Dip come out?” I think I’m in love with him.
P.S. “Lisa Malak, who anchors the ‘Sunday Morning’ show on WFRV in Green Bay, thought it would be fun to book somebody who said he was a yo-yo champion. When Strasser showed up April 11, he said he forgot the string for his yo-yo.” And they put him on the air anyway! Plus, he claims to own the “world’s first ‘green’ toy company,” so no wonder these brainiacs couldn’t wait to talk to him.
P.P.S. It just keeps getting better. I might just spend the rest of my day, if not the rest of my life, thinking about K-Strass.
P.P.P.S. Courtesy of The Escapist, here’s an actual yo-yo expert:
Wow, even the yo-yo can’t follow what’s going on there. The poor thing is like, “WAIT WAIT HOLD ON WOULD YOU JUST WAIT GIMME A SECOND WAIT WHAT WHAT WHAT WHAT WHAT???“