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May 24, 2009

Play it again, keyboard cat

Believe it or not, this is the latest Internet sensation. The keyboard cat.

Sort of like the punchline to a bad joke, the "keyboard cat" has become a way to punctuate videos of people caught in embarrassing situations. For instance, the kitty plays his keyboard song in the above video right after a salesman falls from a ladder he just assured people was safe. (The keyboard kitty is something less than compassionate.)

More than 1.2 million have viewed various versions of the cat on YouTube. According to a story by the Associated Press, the creation of Brad O'Farrell, a 22-year-old syndication manager for the website MyDamnChannel.com, has sparked hundreds of copycats. Pun intended. People film their own silly act, then add the kitty: "Play Him Off, Keyboard Cat."

The videos feature a kitty named Fatso. I'm not sure why they're so popular. They're actually kind of mean.

Posted by Jill Rosen at 9:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)
Categories: Cats Cats Cats, Fun stuff, Pet videos

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very funny video.

Posted by: keyboard cat | May 31, 2009 2:45 AM

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About Jill Rosen

Jill Rosen is a reporter at The Baltimore Sun. During her nearly 20 years in journalism, she has covered news and features — including a surprising number of stories that involved animals. There were the dog Christmas carolers in State College, Pa. There were the hounds who toured with a production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The story of a preschool teacher at Baltimore’s Father Kolbe School who had to replace her class guinea pig, who died over the winter holiday. A harrowing tale of what it was like to make homemade pet food ...

Though her clean freak of a mother refused to allow her to get a dog, she has had a number of pets through the years, including goldfish named Bob and Fingle, a betta fish named Ichabod, a wild rat terrier named Wendel, who she shared with a roommate, and, currently, sweet, sweet kitties named Leo Sesame and Milo Pumpkin and a little rescued pup named Teddy Bean. She, Leo, Pumpkin and Teddy Bean live in Baltimore.

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