This is definitely on-topic: Steve Martin parody of MJ's Billie Jean (on The New Show)

[lindisfarne]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avjmBiH89M8&feature=PlayList&p=029A949D1E108DE2&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=4

[graywarrior]

1. Now THAT is funny!

I'd never seen that before.

[eleny]

2. I'd forgotten all about that - thanks

[Berry Cool]

3. Gosh, I haven't seen that since it originally aired--thanks!

I must have been one of about five people who watched The New Show.

Dave Thomas (formerly of SCTV, later of Grace Under Fire, aka Doug McKenzie) played the detective.

Hilarious.

[Liberal_in_LA]

4. funny. Thanks for posting

[lindisfarne]

5. From the New Yorker:

This video, a parody of the “Billie Jean” video, was done for “The New Show,” which was a prime-time NBC program that Lorne Michaels did in 1983-1984, when he wasn’t producing “Saturday Night Live.” This was the opening—it was the first piece on the first episode of the show. Michael Jackson had recently done what I consider to be his life-changing performance on the Grammy Awards, where he did the Moonwalk and threw his hat offstage. He was just brilliant. Then the “Billie Jean” video came out. And this was a parody of that.

I’m not sure whose idea it was; it might have been Lorne’s. Pat Birch choreographed it. The hard move was that little leg twist that he did. You really have to throw your leg. I did it a thousand times in about three days. And a couple of weeks later I noticed—er, I have a pain here. The pain lasted about two years, then it went away on its own.