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Clip of the Day: Turn It Off If You Feel Yourself Reaching for the Shotgun

11/14/06, 5:05 pm EST

This horrifying butchering of U2’s “One” at the hands of a pair of starched-shirt-sporting banker dudes celebrating the merging of MBNA with Bank of America (we think) is one of the most painful few minutes of video footage we’ve ever sat through in our entire lives. So of course we had to share it with you. Sample lyric: “We’ve got Bank One on the run, what’s in your wallet – it’s not Capitol One.” We are totally getting a Capitol One card, pronto.


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Hantz | 11/14/2006, 5:30 pm EST

All you’re doing is getting a Capital One card? Fuck it; I’m done with money all together now.

vemrion | 11/14/2006, 5:45 pm EST

i watched 2 seconds.

soul = crushed.

Katie | 11/14/2006, 5:51 pm EST

I threw up a bit in my mouth.

Dan | 11/14/2006, 6:04 pm EST

Hey, Bono never wears a tie.

Col. Kurtz | 11/14/2006, 6:05 pm EST

The horror…

The Horror.

heavyhitter | 11/14/2006, 6:17 pm EST

‘edge’ has hair now and ‘bono’ doesnt.

Judas Constant | 11/14/2006, 6:27 pm EST

Was this by any chance written by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant?

markfive | 11/14/2006, 6:31 pm EST

Have they no respect? Have they no shame?

What an injustice to U2!

I turned it off when he sung “one bank” to write this angry comment. Sometimes, I think people should go through an application process to buy video cameras.

Elvis Abbott | 11/14/2006, 6:32 pm EST

No. No. No. My heart……..

Klaatu | 11/14/2006, 6:38 pm EST

I didn’t get very far. I was embarrassed for that guy who apparently didn’t know enough to be embarrassed for himself.

Kevin | 11/14/2006, 6:42 pm EST

assholes work for banks and investment companies…no exceptions

Mike | 11/14/2006, 6:53 pm EST

This was bad, but that Maxwell House commercial set to Madness’s ‘Our House’ a few years back is still worse.

BushCanBlowMe | 11/14/2006, 6:56 pm EST

I’m praying that they both get testicular cancer right now. Dear Lord, i don’t ask for much …

haugh 69 | 11/14/2006, 7:09 pm EST

“one bank working every day to bring higher standerds”.Why god why?

joe | 11/14/2006, 7:12 pm EST

Holy $**t that’s funny. When I witness people like this I realize that mass extinction wouldn’t be all bad.

Mary | 11/14/2006, 8:06 pm EST

Bono should sue and give all the money to the ONE campaign to rid the world of hunger. OMG I’m gonna puke.

Anonymous | 11/14/2006, 8:22 pm EST

“I didn’t get very far. I was embarrassed for that guy who apparently didn’t know enough to be embarrassed for himself” This can not be said enough times. I don’t see how the crowd gathered were able keep from pissing all over themselves laughing. Money pigs.

Milla | 11/14/2006, 8:38 pm EST

Good God.

Dude | 11/14/2006, 8:54 pm EST

To be fair, his voice isn’t bad… still don’t get why he thought it would be a good idea to alter the lyrics

Merrr | 11/14/2006, 9:42 pm EST

bahaha! I LOOOVEEE the part about picking what picture you get on your card. Who does that?

Ps. I wonder if this guy knows he made the Rolling Stone “clip of the day”?

daniel | 11/14/2006, 9:43 pm EST

god! i have lost my faith in human race! i couldn’t watch the complete video…

semi wood | 11/14/2006, 9:59 pm EST

That rocks so freaking hard!

Den | 11/14/2006, 10:30 pm EST

The guy needs therapy lol. As much as I hate U2, I must say I felt a bit sorry for them. But it was hilarious. Surreal.

Ric | 11/14/2006, 10:40 pm EST

it is now official ROCK is DEAD. What’s next the Beatles hocking Nike footwear? Wait!???????? What’s in you wallet??????

Jimmy Jazz | 11/14/2006, 11:39 pm EST

I want to kill bono right now. not because he had anything to do with this song, but because his song made this one possible. seriously. rock is dead. good fucking lord. can I kill those two right now? please? would anyone blame me?

Trance | 11/14/2006, 11:40 pm EST

goosebumps. bad goosebumps.

JB | 11/14/2006, 11:45 pm EST

I will be sure to never use bank of America

Anonymous | 11/14/2006, 11:58 pm EST

This is so beautiful. Do you think global corporations get irony?

will | 11/15/2006, 12:06 am EST

there oughta be a law.

MK | 11/15/2006, 12:20 am EST

Wow.

I think, after many years, the Internet has finally succeded in breaking me.

jhuiyjkm | 11/15/2006, 1:07 am EST

gandu

Anonymous | 11/15/2006, 3:17 am EST

i don’t know what’s worse the song or the standing ovation…wtf?

utterquiet | 11/15/2006, 4:34 am EST

C’mon, it’s not that bad. He’s no Bono, but it could of been a lot worse.

anti-skeptic | 11/15/2006, 5:04 am EST

Wow. U2 should perform this version from now on.”higheeer staaandards” what could be better. Comedy lives in banking whether we care or not. William Hung could learn a few things. Couldve been worse: they couldve made a rap- “Its all about the Benjamins Baby” ,”Its Card out there for a pimp”, or something.

Arvid | 11/15/2006, 7:24 am EST

He sings nicely, you gotta give him that! And the irony of remaking a hyper-smug, multibillionrecords-U2, Jesus-Bono-song song in this context… It’s too good.

Rob | 11/15/2006, 7:32 am EST

I hate myself.

semi wood | 11/15/2006, 7:56 am EST

I don’t get it….what is wrong with it? Someone expain.

Nate | 11/15/2006, 8:04 am EST

I think the best part about this is how earnestly the guy is singing. I would be so cracking up having to sell the fiduciary related lyrics to this crowd. You can shit on Bono all you want but this actually proves what a good song “One” really is.

Warzawa | 11/15/2006, 9:04 am EST

haha…it’s better than U2

I work there | 11/15/2006, 9:38 am EST

Unfortunately….there are 2 other songs he’s done. Green Day & Queen’s “We are the Champions”

You had to suffer through it for one moment but this is something I have to deal w/ everyday.

grub | 11/15/2006, 10:00 am EST

it’s a shame..if the want to cover a famous song ..then please not one with a seriously meaning.

Jacob | 11/15/2006, 10:23 am EST

wow. that was amazing. totally surreal. these people actually think that’s cool. that we’ll make lot’s of money B.S. Anyway. thatnks for bringing this travesty to my attention. I think I need a bath now.

Jack D | 11/15/2006, 11:52 am EST

That was awesome.

Casey | 11/15/2006, 12:20 pm EST

A standing ovation – Really??

Jack D | 11/15/2006, 1:32 pm EST

Sounds like something the politicians would do to “reach out” to the youthfull masses. This reverses the evolutionary process a bit, dont you think.

Dizzle | 11/15/2006, 1:35 pm EST

Where the hell are all the suicide bombers when you need them!?! Absolute rubbish! Fucking wankers!!

Whateva | 11/15/2006, 2:15 pm EST

Wow I just wasted about 4 1/2 minutes of my life that I will never get back.

MariMcD | 11/15/2006, 2:23 pm EST

I just got off the phone with B of A and cancelled everything because of this dillhole. Hello SunTrust!

Aric | 11/15/2006, 2:45 pm EST

If I’m not mistaken, this act was mentioned in the Book of Revelations. Locust and plague should be around the corner. Who would have thought a Bank of America Debit Card was the mark of the beast?

Haze | 11/15/2006, 3:00 pm EST

What’s hilarious is the stiff bankers, I mean interest rate robbers, taking the song seriously.

$$man | 11/16/2006, 9:17 pm EST

Wow I just see a bunch of posts here from people who don’t know how to make money and want to abuse guys who do and still have some fun….losers……and the best part is the Bank is probably making a butload of money off most of you who charge tons on your card and don’t pay it off….and for the moron who wrote the initial description it is MBNA not MBA…”MBA” is something you get when you want to make something of your life….

edge | 11/17/2006, 1:05 pm EST

Isn’t this a meeting about the merger of two banks?? Well, the irony, then, is that “One” (the real and only version)is about how countries, cultures and races have to get along despite NOT LIKING ONE ANOTHER. So is this nimrod sending the message that the two banks don’t like each other, but they should get along so they can all make a bunch of cash?! F-ing idiot. One more thing…fat, middle age manager should not tap their foot while butching a song…it makes their fat guts jiggle and the 20-something employees point and laugh.

what a dick head | 11/17/2006, 1:11 pm EST

It would have been really cool if someone from the audience had grabbed the guitar and smashed it over the head of that loser singer. Put a fork in this turkey; he’s way done.

MB No wAy! | 11/17/2006, 1:37 pm EST

Shame on you for the “1 bank” hand dance movement.

Mike3khz | 11/17/2006, 1:43 pm EST

Look what Pop Idol has done to us. It enables twat’s like this to think they are entertaining, dare to stand and and make complete arses of themselves. Even worse the brown nosing audience don’t have the balls to get them off stage and bury them in a shit pit.

LOL | 11/17/2006, 3:34 pm EST

Michael Scott has got a great voice. Oh, wait! This isn’t an episode of “The Office”. On the show someone would have looked at the camera with a knowing smirk or stifled laughter. These people weren’t even snickering a little at some of the absurd lyrics. I think that what’s made the song more horrific. I would have bust out laughing during the song like I did when I just watched the clip.

Jules | 11/17/2006, 6:31 pm EST

OH DEAR GOD…the funniest thing is how passionate and serious he seems about the whole thing…LOSER

Concert Junkie | 11/17/2006, 7:39 pm EST

Are you fuckin’ serious?

JC Smooth | 11/17/2006, 10:58 pm EST

Being a band director for the last eight years, I thought I had heard everything, and this is not to say that these two are not good at their day jobs. But this video is living proof that corporate yuppies have no business trying to be creative IN FRONT OF OTHERS because their skill set is obviously not with artistic creativity. Perhaps they are better suited to singing in a church band where a small group can hear them and not unleashed on the internet. Singing and playing can be very difficult for many, but writing a good song is hard for all. This video is proof of that.

thewaitress | 11/17/2006, 11:25 pm EST

thank you. that was really funny!

Pittsboy | 11/18/2006, 1:39 am EST

You people are stupid! It’s obviously been done ironically, possibly a cheap imitation of The office. What does the bank merger want most? Probably that a lot of people are talking about it. Great job, tools!

Slash | 11/18/2006, 7:04 am EST

Why o why Did i live to see this DAY!

Jazzbo | 11/20/2006, 6:10 am EST

I see others caught the mistake in calling MBNA(which stands for MBNA, although at one time it was “Maryland Bank, North America” but it was changed years ago. Bank of America is afraid of introducing a name change of “AnyBank of America” due to the “of America” part at a time when President Bush the Lesser had squandered several hundred years of diplomatic and civilized behavior and recognition in favor of cartoon cawboy gunboat diplomacy, rendering the “of America” phrase to a questionable advantage at best and an invitation for firebombed offices in Scotland, Ireland, and Spain, where MBNA has been issueing credit cards for years and years, so in the EU at least, MBNA lives on. The same cannot be said of the corporate MBNA or the general feel of the “combined” operation, with B of A discontinuing on-site drvcleaning pickup and dropoff, good tee times at corporate golf courses, barbershops, floral shops, and certain other concierge-level services that used to be part of the package when you signed on as an associate or team member in the MBNA family. They haven’t closed all of the on-site day care centers (yet) but did can all the ancilliar employees who used to be “full-fledged” employees who just happpened to be in custodial, groundskeeping, and security fields, replacing them with contracted services to reduce the headcount of those eligible for things like pensions and benefits, not to mention the concierge-like services availiabile (listed above). Always good to see some seious headcount reductions in favor of security being provided by the lowest (qualified, I’m just certain) bidder. I know – I am one of the drones hired to replace in-house security. At least they have a little TV we can watch on the overnight shift (oops, now they will probably take it away) when we are securifyin’ the place and writing TPS reports. Rockin’ in the Free World, asNeil Young might put it – a “kinder, gentler machine gun hand” indeed.

Sign me, “Downsized in Delaware” (at about half my former pay when I was still in the “MBNA family”

Jazzbo | 11/20/2006, 6:20 am EST

Sorry about the missing closed parenthesis and the run-on of “asNeil Young” which, of course, should be “as Neil Young” (and I am thrilled that they did not use any of his songs, not that he would encourage it, methinks…)

signed, Downsized in Delaware

Andrew | 11/20/2006, 1:01 pm EST

That was awesome. Cheers to these guys for getting in front of a crowd and performing.

Phishpeaks | 11/20/2006, 2:08 pm EST

My God…if you don’t instinctively understand what’s wrong with this clip (Andrew, utterquiet, semi wood, etc.) then i fear that anything I say could serve to rectify your tragic condition.

This really is a metaphor for everything that’s wrong with our consumer-based, capitalistic society.

Pancake Bunny | 11/20/2006, 4:10 pm EST

OK, NOW I’m totally convinced…we’re all going to hell.
No wonder people go to their workplace, kill everyone there and then kill themselves. It’s all so futile.

thegoodhumorman | 11/21/2006, 9:18 am EST

what’s wrong with some people that have a boring job in an office having some fun? the people that posted on here need to get a sense of humor… I bet 99% of the people that posted on here have no talent and that is why the are mocking a couple of guys who were trying to make their job and life a little more enjoyablel. Lighten up!

mcache | 11/21/2006, 10:03 am EST

I think it’s really sweet that MBNA/BofA promote hiring of the retarded.

getalife | 11/21/2006, 7:21 pm EST

Here’s to the two guys who did this. Nice work and boy it takes balls to do something like this at a stiff corp mtg. As for the losers who make points, have no idea what you’re talking about I would bet you can’t wait for Jackass II to come out and think that’s worth $8.00 bucks to see. Bottom line get a job and a life.

mcache | 11/21/2006, 7:41 pm EST

Wow – I guess it takes even bigger balls to post a comment supporting these two douchebags.

the REAL mighty quinn | 11/22/2006, 9:38 pm EST

my mind has come to a complete halt.

Anonymous | 12/3/2006, 8:56 am EST

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