Ok so I don't seem to be able to escape bananas in my life. I don't know if it's some weird Freudian clown thing or something, but we make the most of it. I was looking for a book about the history of the banana in American pop culture for a little while, but I think it's out of print. Unforch.
Anyway, I just came across this video. The guy I took it from said it was a revolution in physical and visual comedy. I have to hope he was being sarcastic because I think this is one of the creepiest videos I've seen in a long time.
...I don't really have anything to say about it. I just think it's real creepy.
So to redeem the banana's good name, here's A. Robins the Banana Man! Don'tcha miss vaudeville when there was a space for this kind of thing? I sure do.
His act at one point involved more bananas.
And here's the Aggrolites on Yo Gabba Gabba! doing a fabulous song about bananas. And just fyi, Yo Gabba Gabba gets a bad rap but um...Anthony Bourdain is making an appearance on an episode in March. So don't hate.
The Aggrolites - Banana (Yo Gabba Gabba!)
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Weird, I was just browsing through this graffiti coffee table book and they featured this guy who went around spray painting bananas on things. It later became associated with being a place of art and museums were hiring him to paint a banana on exterior walls... He would then go back later when he deemed them unworthy of the banana title and would spray paint an exploded banana over top the first one.
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crazy. There's some tagger around Philly that makes a bunch of bananas with one banana as a penis instead.
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