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So Jokes: Video EP

2009-08-19 · Hank · watch on YouTube · Pop culture · comedy performance

Hank presents songs from his album So Jokes as a 'video EP': comic songs asking J.K. Rowling for an eighth Harry Potter book, declaring his crush on Helen Hunt, 'Accio Deathly Hallows', a sincere 'Looking for Alaska' song, and a comic rant threatening everyday annoyances.

What is said

00:00:00 — Song 'Book 8': Hank wants J.K. Rowling to write an eighth Harry Potter book

  • ★ The song lists stories Hank wants told (Harry's sons, Grindelwald and Dumbledore, the veil, Hagrid's parents) and proposes joke titles such as 'Harry Potter and the Nerdfighters'. (joke) — 00:00:10 · Harry Potter, Nerdfighteria
  • ★★ In the song 'Book Eight', Hank sings that he wants J.K. Rowling to write an eighth Harry Potter book; he thinks there is an unwritten story to tell. (playful) (hedged) — 00:00:31 · Harry Potter
  • ★★ The 'Book Eight' song wants Rowling to say the Deathly Hallows epilogue was crap, 'cause we all know it was crap'. (playful) — 00:00:31 · Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

00:03:19 — Song 'Helen Hunt': Hank's comic love song to the actress

  • ★★ In the song 'Helen Hunt', Hank comically declares a crush on Helen Hunt dating from puberty, punning on her film and TV titles and on sharing the name Hank with her husband. (joke) — 00:03:19 · Helen Hunt, Helen Hunt
  • ★ The Helen Hunt song says she was best comedy actress four years in a row. (playful) — 00:04:33 · Helen Hunt

00:04:53 — Song 'Accio Deathly Hallows': waiting for the last Harry Potter book

00:09:08 — Song 'Looking for Alaska' (by Lianne Graham per the description), addressed to Alaska

  • ★★ Lianne Graham's song 'Looking for Alaska' addresses Alaska: the singer hopes she has escaped 'this labyrinth of suffering', recalls Thomas Edison's last words, and is still looking for her. (fiction) — 00:09:08 · Looking for Alaska > «Thomas Edison's last words were It's very beautiful over there»

00:12:31 — Song about wanting to kill everyday annoyances: grocery-line lady, SUV-driving neighbour, loud upstairs neighbour; closing 'Thank you'

  • ★★ In a comic rant song, Hank threatens to kill everyday offenders, a rude express-lane customer, an SUV-buying neighbour and a noisy upstairs neighbour, while calling himself 'usually a very peaceful person'. (joke) — 00:13:16
  • ★★ The song's SUV verse mocks a man down the street who bought a giant SUV (an H2): 'we're fighting a war' so he can drive it home from the grocery store; Hank urges a Honda Fit instead. (playful) — 00:13:44

Humor (dominant)

  • Listing untold Harry Potter stories, Hank offers his theory about the veil Sirius fell through. — 00:01:22 > «And I think Sirius is in Middle Earth»
  • Hank suggests titles Rowling could give Book 8. — 00:02:32 > «Or Harry Potter and the Nerdfighters»
  • Hank thanks Helen Hunt for a film scene, punning on her film As Good as It Gets. — 00:03:43 > «It was as good as it gets in my pants»
  • Hank notes Helen Hunt's husband's name. — 00:04:08 > «Your husband's name was Hank, right? Well, my name is Hank»
  • A friend asks how an old, ugly actress could mean so much to Hank. — 00:04:33 > «Well, a minute later, looking down at him bleeding in the snow»
  • Hank lists his fears about the last Harry Potter book. — 00:06:12 > «And what if Harry's brain is a horcrux? Oh, holy crap!»
  • Hank threatens the woman holding up the grocery express lane. — 00:13:16 > «I'll do a scorpion's fatality and rip out your spine»
  • Hank's note to the neighbour who bought a giant SUV. — 00:13:44 > «I hope you know that we're fighting a war So you can get your badass home from the grocery store»

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