Do not be fooled by his playful behaviour; he takes it seriously he just does not show it. For someone to play a piece forwards and backwards, that takes serious practice.
@Orangie: well, the joke was that the sheet was turned 180 degrees, which gets you *both* upside down *and* backwards, so both of you are equally right. However, what he actually played was neither upside down nor backwards, so both of you are equally wrong. It's just a joke though. It works precisely because it's silly and makes no sense at all if you overanalyze it.
For one person to have such a command of language and music is utterly remarkable. When you realize he's not a native to an English speaking nation, it's even more amazing.
@Elon Musk I did know that meme, but when I read your youtube name I just hear Elon telling me in a straight voice "I don't care that you broke your elbow" so I kinda forgot. Thanks for the meme though.
@@beninua The joke was that he said yes out of context for the audience and my mind thought of those memes like "how much cereal do you want?" and the person would say "yes." So to me, the pianist and someone in the audience was a time traveler.
He had an angle that nobody else had. He could take the stuffing out of stuffy music, and always still play beautifully. He was an ambassador for classical music, and like that music he is timeless.
I think I read somewhere there was one song, Debussy's Claire De Lune, that he refused to use for comedy. He said the song was too beautiful to disparage in any way. There are videos on YT of him playing that song and it's not hard to connect with his depth of feeling as he plays every note. And no jokes to be found. It's very beautifully done. I encourage you to find it.
Funnily enough I discovered this guy because of an offhand joke i made to my piano teacher that the music he handed me upside down fooled me for a moment, because it still looked like right side up music. Then we spent 10 minutes on a Voctor Borge tangent.
"I wonder why there are three pedals on this grand piano. Who do they think I am?"...... Took me a bit longer than the crowd to figure that one out lol 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
I cannot believe it has taken me until now to discover this masterpiece of a character He was such a wholesome performer who evokes in you the very passion that he brings to his work ❤
A legend in action , makes everyone crack up laughing but they also know he is the real deal ! Not a single flaw at moonlight sonata until he changed it in purpose so beautifully . I think he was a genius and a great entertainer !!!!
He is still the only person that could play something wrong and it still sounds perfect...he's much more intelligent than he really let's on...a brilliant man...Bo Burnham doesn't have anything on this gentleman 👏 😉 👍
Mozart is said to have written some short pieces for two violins. The two musicians sit opposite each other and play the same notes from the same piece of paper lying between them, each one from his/her "top" to "bottom". It is not just backwards. The notes are also different, depending from which side you read them. It is called "mirror canon" or "mirror duet" and it sounds pretty good...
Once in the late '60s I saw Victor Borge make a guest appearance on "The Hollywood Palace", a TV variety show. The last segment of his act that night he read aloud from a book, using what he called "sound punctuation" which involved making "air punctuation" accompanied by different sounds for each period, comma, question mark, exclamation point etc. He had the 12-year-old me literally rolling on the floor laughing so hard my sides hurt. And this was after playing "William Tell" backwards at full speed from upside-down sheet music. We'll not see anyone like him again. Rest in peace, Mr. Borge.
I wonder why is that funny. It sounds like a trap. Baldwin builds a crap piano, finds a crap player, lets him announce it's a Steinway. This stuff should be illegal as hell.
He is the Danish equivalent of the Argentinian "Les Luthiers", although they are a group and he was a soloist. The kind of people that make this world a more beautiful place.
@@alexandra.willitts6988 It is An der Schönen Blauen Donau (or Blue Danube) Waltz. You can hear the full orchestra version (Wiener Philharmoniker) here: ruclips.net/video/iOD2tvNuzig/видео.html And you can hear the full piano version here: ruclips.net/video/TO-BoFR-c6Y/видео.html
You gotta love how he plays the piano like this and makes it look like it's nothing while he still makes jokes about it! This is what you get when purr talent is combined to hard work!
Oh I loved watching him as a kid, he was so funny and a brilliant brilliant pianist! You didn’t really realize at first how good he was on the piano until you heard him play a full concert. It was nice to hear this again
Borge was a one of a kind original. I saw his one man show at the imperial theater in NYC in the seventies... when a seat in the orchestra was ten bucks!
I was thinking seen him so many times but he is on absolutely priceless form here and always does entertain. This quality of entertainment never ages which is a relief as it probably will never be repeated.
I got to see him live in St. Louis a couple of years before he passed even then the show was great. Amazingly it was about 2 hours long and thenj he did an encore that lasted almost 45 minutes.
3:10 I love that Family Guy did a tribute to this gag, using Tom Tucker's updside-down-face kid as the medium. That move was so simple, yet so hard-hitting. They don't make em like Victor anymore...
I was very lucky to have met Victor Berger and his family's children and grandchildren and everyone when I worked at resorts in Atlantic City he was a wonderful person I talked for a long time
The next day when was working in the buffet room I was coming out of the kitchenhe gave me was coming out of a kitchen he gave me biggest smiled and waved smile and wave to me and I was really surprised that made me feel so good that he actually remembered me from the day before very good person
Hi all, I have some rare footage with Victor Borge - recorded in his native country Denmark. He partly speaks Danish, but I have applied English subtitles for those parts. This is the playlist (Enjoy!): ruclips.net/p/PLCby7t-aPVUksdwJPSy7ov7-tHibgxC4h
i simply can not laugh at this man and i brought up with the likes of Billy Connolly Stanley Baxter Les Dawson Tommy Cooper Ken Dodd the TWO Ronnies Dave allan morecambe and wise the cream of British Comedy
I like really this Mans talent.. Great pianist great comedian. I only discovered him last night on one of those shorts while scrolling..Now I'm hooked...😊😂
Viktor: "Hello."
That one guy in the audience: "HahHahahHahHah"
😂 lol
Bitches love "hello"
Best laugh track or high
He knew what was coming. Tommy Cooper had the same effect.
When he said "I don't know anything all the way through" I felt that.
I'll play the most recognizable part of the song then disappe
Make a new skit of this
Me too bruh
LMFAO
Where the hell did he go?
suh dude
Damn to think the almighty Danny would appear on a Borge video
647 dislikes? Wow, that's a LOT of people who've had their senses of humour surgically removed. Victor Borge was a genius.
Totally agree, he was brilliant and it was great to re-watch him after all these years.
Try to respect others opinion, maybe they have a different taste than yours, yes yes it is possible ;)
Some people were born idiots, and got dumber with age. And 705 of them have now given this video a thumbs down.
@@anb740 agree
643 prefer Tiktok challenges probably
Notice when he speaks to the audience, he stands up. Thats a nice touch and shows a gentleman.
He was a master musician who never took himself seriously. His talent will be missed.
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Do not be fooled by his playful behaviour; he takes it seriously he just does not show it. For someone to play a piece forwards and backwards, that takes serious practice.
@@chasmcd4123 agreed
Still watching 😅😅
The greatest comedic musician of all time. Playing the William tell overture backwards was priceless.
I think Les Dawson was an equal to Mr Borge. It would have been great to have seen them play together.
But bo burnham 🤣
I think upside down no?
@@someone123421 nah
@Orangie: well, the joke was that the sheet was turned 180 degrees, which gets you *both* upside down *and* backwards, so both of you are equally right.
However, what he actually played was neither upside down nor backwards, so both of you are equally wrong.
It's just a joke though. It works precisely because it's silly and makes no sense at all if you overanalyze it.
For one person to have such a command of language and music is utterly remarkable. When you realize he's not a native to an English speaking nation, it's even more amazing.
seriously? that is some level of comedic part to come over simple language barrier and make us laugh all those years still :D
@@danaondrackova3431 yeah he was danish
LOVE
@@normanouard2288 No, he was a danish jew
@@parzivalnekka3363 So is a Danish Jew not Danish, somehow?
This dude would’ve absolutely been a star in today’s era
Imagine the Tik toks
He was in his era too :)
Do you really think the twits of today could appreciate great stuff like Victor Borge?
I think not!
No he wouldn't. Unfortunately so.
In this era when people have attention spans of microseconds... I doubt it
Victor Borge : "Yes" (without context)
Everyone : HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
@Elon Musk I'm gonna say it now, that person was a time traveler and nothing will change my mind
@Elon Musk How does me making a joke about time travel connect to me breaking my elbow?
@Elon Musk I did know that meme, but when I read your youtube name I just hear Elon telling me in a straight voice "I don't care that you broke your elbow" so I kinda forgot. Thanks for the meme though.
@@chasemakes Sorry - I'm slow: Who is a time traveller?
@@beninua The joke was that he said yes out of context for the audience and my mind thought of those memes like "how much cereal do you want?" and the person would say "yes." So to me, the pianist and someone in the audience was a time traveler.
If you'd ask me to define what "chaotic neutral" means, I'd show you this
This dude in dnd would destory any DM
The Man is insane. 😳
An Insanely Funny, Talented, Accomplished Person.
He had an angle that nobody else had. He could take the stuffing out of stuffy music, and always still play beautifully. He was an ambassador for classical music, and like that music he is timeless.
"kind of a short day wasn't it?"
I think I read somewhere there was one song, Debussy's Claire De Lune, that he refused to use for comedy. He said the song was too beautiful to disparage in any way. There are videos on YT of him playing that song and it's not hard to connect with his depth of feeling as he plays every note. And no jokes to be found. It's very beautifully done. I encourage you to find it.
thast makes snse
First time watching Victor Borge. I've got some googleing to do.
Juan Felipe Monsalve Vergara
Have fun Juan, - the man was an absolute legend.
You will enjoy every moment.
Check out additional language, phonetic punctuation, and the turner. He’s hilarious.
me too
@@pinkmagicali and "follow me" and "hungarian rapsody" and and every video of that genius man. 💙
The Page Turner was actually his son.
3:38 That would have been the most epic Sabre Dance had he not decided to screw it up for laughs.
So /that's/ why that sounded familiar. I knew I'd heard the song but couldn't pick it out. Thanks!
Funnily enough I discovered this guy because of an offhand joke i made to my piano teacher that the music he handed me upside down fooled me for a moment, because it still looked like right side up music. Then we spent 10 minutes on a Voctor Borge tangent.
He was not only a good comedian, he was one of the best pianists who ever lived.
"I wonder why there are three pedals on this grand piano. Who do they think I am?"...... Took me a bit longer than the crowd to figure that one out lol 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
@Jesus Hitler I thought he was just saying that he doesn't have three feet...
@A ROBOT WITH BIG JUICY TITS just what my day needed
@@chopinwannabe7556 is that not what it meant
@@kathrynkaren1024 I just automatically thought it was something a bit more risqué 😅
Who is watching now 2024!❤
Back when comedy required an education to understand.
Baldwin piano company asked me to tell you this is a Steinway. Solid. Gold.
Great slapstick and dry humor combined.... Laughed my ass off :D
@chris lopan Dark humor, sexist humor, self ironic humor, satire, parody, you....
Genius. Moonlight Sonata into Night and Day. That's so good.
Beethoven and Cole Porter co-wrote many hit songs.
Even in 2019 he is stil ahead of his time! Wish I was born somewhere around the 1930s to have seen him live and in person.
He performed right up until his death if I remember correctly, so you could have seen him even if you were born in 1990 (though you'd be a kid)
I saw him at the Paramount in Oakland, CA back in about 1980 or so. My sides hurt from laughing by the time it was over.
@@yoavshati I was born in 2003, so I had no chance 😭😭😭
@@stxrry.bobamilk 2001 here, so I had no chance either
You would had to come to Denmark then; he emigrated after april 1940, when DK was occupied by Nazi germany.
I was honored to see him perform with the San Francisco Symphony. What a performer.
I miss Victor Borge. Very funny, tasteful and a little bit mischievous.
Borge truly had a beautiful tone on the piano. I love how he puts in the rhythmic Schlepp in the waltz - a lost art!
But he goes to the ultimate "stutter".. Which I heard in Germany and Austria.. You cant even dance to that.
I cannot believe it has taken me until now to discover this masterpiece of a character
He was such a wholesome performer who evokes in you the very passion that he brings to his work ❤
3:09 the ancestor to the MIDI Flip Challenge.
"Kind of a short day. Wasn't it?" 😂😂
Now that's what I call proper entertainment. Clever with strokes of genius!!
A legend in action , makes everyone crack up laughing but they also know he is the real deal ! Not a single flaw at moonlight sonata until he changed it in purpose so beautifully . I think he was a genius and a great entertainer !!!!
He is still the only person that could play something wrong and it still sounds perfect...he's much more intelligent than he really let's on...a brilliant man...Bo Burnham doesn't have anything on this gentleman 👏 😉 👍
(Looks at any Liszt piece)
Me: "Who do you think I am?"
3:10 this is actually the first time I realised that flipping notes would flip the time too
Mozart is said to have written some short pieces for two violins. The two musicians sit opposite each other and play the same notes from the same piece of paper lying between them, each one from his/her "top" to "bottom". It is not just backwards. The notes are also different, depending from which side you read them. It is called "mirror canon" or "mirror duet" and it sounds pretty good...
1:34 the punchline to the world’s dirtiest piano joke.
The most musical penis joke ever!
Omg I totally missed that!
transtremm
i don't get it
@@namtruong9476 I'm too dumb...I didn't get it
@@immanuellasker4273 they call the penis the 3rd leg
Once in the late '60s I saw Victor Borge make a guest appearance on "The Hollywood Palace", a TV variety show. The last segment of his act that night he read aloud from a book, using what he called "sound punctuation" which involved making "air punctuation" accompanied by different sounds for each period, comma, question mark, exclamation point etc. He had the 12-year-old me literally rolling on the floor laughing so hard my sides hurt. And this was after playing "William Tell" backwards at full speed from upside-down sheet music. We'll not see anyone like him again. Rest in peace, Mr. Borge.
2:53 Baldwin and Steinway are rival piano companies for those who wonder why that's funny.
I wonder why is that funny. It sounds like a trap. Baldwin builds a crap piano, finds a crap player, lets him announce it's a Steinway. This stuff should be illegal as hell.
@@u.v.s.5583 When all else fails, deflect onto the competition.
@@u.v.s.5583 It shouldn't, because it's a joke.
@@u.v.s.5583 ohh you triggered little snowflake? hahaha
@@u.v.s.5583 Crap player?
I used to see him on TV quite regularly when I was a kid. He was an absolute genius.
The pedals joke is my first exposure to this man's humor. I already knew of his musical genius. I have been missing out.
I am not a musician and have been wondering what that joke was about. Was it a dig on someone?
@@markdonley2397 The piano has three pedals, implying it was made for a pianist with three legs, or something equivalent.
@@markdonley2397Dick joke.
A fantastic performer with unique timing and playing skills. A true master.
Borge was the best at what he did. He was also the only one doing it. And more than half a century later, nobody else is doing it.
He is the Danish equivalent of the Argentinian "Les Luthiers", although they are a group and he was a soloist. The kind of people that make this world a more beautiful place.
buena comparación!
@@danilubrunner
De una! Jajaja..
3:58 epic
3:38 ..........Do you know that song. I'd like to hear the entire thing with full orchestra once in my life
@@alexandra.willitts6988 blue danube
I think it‘s the SABRE DANCE.
ruclips.net/video/mUQHGpxrz-8/видео.html
@@alexandra.willitts6988 It is An der Schönen Blauen Donau (or Blue Danube) Waltz.
You can hear the full orchestra version (Wiener Philharmoniker) here:
ruclips.net/video/iOD2tvNuzig/видео.html
And you can hear the full piano version here:
ruclips.net/video/TO-BoFR-c6Y/видео.html
@@beninua its not that song
You gotta love how he plays the piano like this and makes it look like it's nothing while he still makes jokes about it! This is what you get when purr talent is combined to hard work!
Victor Borge was and will always be one of the all-time great musical comedians.
This man is pure genius. My favourite comedian by far.
By far??🤣 he’s good but that’s a bit much haha
Oh I loved watching him as a kid, he was so funny and a brilliant brilliant pianist! You didn’t really realize at first how good he was on the piano until you heard him play a full concert. It was nice to hear this again
The WHOLE act is just GENIUS!
I wish I could just go through different generations at will and just completely relate to everything like some immortal being.
I feel ya...
You still alive?
Theres just not enough room on the piano for this guy
The writing and performance of this routine are second to none
Great classical pianist and his verbal comedic timing was impeccable.
This is beautiful comedy. I so rarely see comedy today delivered with such levity and skill. It truly lifted my heart.
Did he make a third leg joke? That caught me way off guard lol
Would have loved to hear a full piece. He was clearly a talented pianist.
If Mr. Bean could play the piano.
Timeless
Borge was a one of a kind original. I saw his one man show at the imperial theater in NYC in the seventies... when a seat in the orchestra was ten bucks!
This is talent beyond belief. Such a talented pianist, yet the humour is interspersed so seamlessly!
The one on the left is the clutch, obviously. ~( :
You'd think that, being European, he'd be used to playing a manual.
Why was this in my recommendation?!
Thank you.
according to youtube you have good taste...
Because it’s fun :-)
I was thinking seen him so many times but he is on absolutely priceless form here and always does entertain. This quality of entertainment never ages which is a relief as it probably will never be repeated.
He was funny and clever . Unique actually.
I got to see him live in St. Louis a couple of years before he passed even then the show was great. Amazingly it was about 2 hours long and thenj he did an encore that lasted almost 45 minutes.
A class act. Nothing compares!
I loved that man's humor. He is why I wanted to learn to play the piano.
3:10
I love that Family Guy did a tribute to this gag, using Tom Tucker's updside-down-face kid as the medium.
That move was so simple, yet so hard-hitting. They don't make em like Victor anymore...
What season was it?
A good pianist. The master of timing! Thank-you for the reminder.
I was very lucky to have met Victor Berger and his family's children and grandchildren and everyone when I worked at resorts in Atlantic City he was a wonderful person I talked for a long time
The next day when was working in the buffet room I was coming out of the kitchenhe gave me was coming out of a kitchen he gave me biggest smiled and waved smile and wave to me and I was really surprised that made me feel so good that he actually remembered me from the day before very good person
Hi all, I have some rare footage with Victor Borge - recorded in his native country Denmark. He partly speaks Danish, but I have applied English subtitles for those parts. This is the playlist (Enjoy!): ruclips.net/p/PLCby7t-aPVUksdwJPSy7ov7-tHibgxC4h
What an amazing sense of humour.
This is amazing, such clever humour
Don't you hate in when your piano is too short? :p
Brilliant man.
Výjimečný muž s uzasnym smyslem pro humor. 🙂Pavel 🇨🇿
A legend. A musical comedic genius.
i simply can not laugh at this man and i brought up with the likes of Billy Connolly Stanley Baxter Les Dawson Tommy Cooper Ken Dodd the TWO Ronnies Dave allan morecambe and wise the cream of British Comedy
I like really this Mans talent.. Great pianist great comedian. I only discovered him last night on one of those shorts while scrolling..Now I'm hooked...😊😂
Always loved for many many years and never got tired of his performances
An amazing talent and comedian, rest in peace.
RIP what a legend
When you want to be a comedian but your mom makes you learn the piano
"Moonlight Sonata" turns into "Night And Day"...lolololol!!🤠🤠
Only a man that happy with his life could be so authentically funny.
The Sting scene with dual pianos was a great mix, thank you
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R.I.P. Mr. Børge!
He's quite funny I thought, bit before my time but I would've enjoyed going to see him perform.
My gosh, I just about *died* when he got stuck towards the end there!😆😆😆😆😆😆😆🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂
A very clever, talented, funny man. I grew up watching/listening to Mr. Borge. Brilliant.
My stomach hurts from laughing so much. This guy is amazing.
I saw him live in Seattle in concert. That was of course a number of years ago. It was my dream to see him and it was better than I ever expected!
Just now learned of this man. What a genius he was.
This is so great! I laughed out loud at Victor's humor.
He was an awesome talent.
Amazing. Genius prop comic whose prop was a grand freaking *piano*. Love this guy.
Grew up on him. One of a kind. Pure genius.
Such brilliance.
A truly gifted individual.
he is one of a kind
This is so classic.
I still love good old jokes😁
superb
INCREDIBLE!