Cat juggling!
OK - not Cat Juggling*, but something almost as good. Baby dropping! Even better, perhaps? YouTube.
*First person in comments to correctly identify the “cat juggling” reference WITHOUT THE AID OF GOOGLE gets a tip of the hat!
OK - not Cat Juggling*, but something almost as good. Baby dropping! Even better, perhaps? YouTube.
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May 1, 2008 at 4:34 pm by Adam Stanhope
Category: Baby & Kid, Travel & Places, Video Clips
May 1, 2008 at 4:34 pm by Adam StanhopeCategory: Baby & Kid, Travel & Places, Video Clips
47 Comments to "Cat juggling!"
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LPJ
May 1st, 2008 at
4:37 pm
That’s gotta be from The Jerk. And no, I didn’t need Google for that …
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Adam Stanhope
May 1st, 2008 at
4:39 pm
Three minutes - amazing!
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Honest Guesser
May 1st, 2008 at
4:39 pm
That would be Steve Martin.
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Adam Stanhope
May 1st, 2008 at
4:43 pm
Ok - so to explain…
In Steve Martin’s “The Jerk,” 1979, Martin’s character Navin Johnson gets suddenly rich from a stupid invention (bonus question: what was his invention?). Now that he has money, people start contacting him for donations for their charities. One of the people soliciting money has hidden camera film footage “smuggled out” of somewhere showing people CAT JUGGLING - a crime so heinous that it outrages Johnson.
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Toe
May 1st, 2008 at
4:44 pm
Steve Martin
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violet/riga
May 1st, 2008 at
4:49 pm
“bonus question: what was his invention?”
The handle on the bridge of glasses, but I forget its given name.
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meganisamonster
May 1st, 2008 at
4:49 pm
opti-grab done made me cross eyed
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BenG
May 1st, 2008 at
4:50 pm
The optigrab, no I didn’t google.
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Adam Stanhope
May 1st, 2008 at
4:52 pm
You guys are amazing. I could only DESCRIBE the invention - “something he invented to keep glasses from slipping down peoples’ noses.” I had to go to the Wikipedia to rediscover that the item was called the “Opti-Grab.” Excellent work!
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Adam Stanhope
May 1st, 2008 at
4:53 pm
OK…
More Jerk trivia. No cheating allowed.
Johnson kicked somebody in the crotch and seriously hurt his foot. What was the name of the character he kicked?
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robyn
May 1st, 2008 at
5:00 pm
THE JERK! with steve martin!
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caroline
May 1st, 2008 at
5:05 pm
I thought it was just a bit from Steve Martin’s stand-up routine as a parody of the criticism of bull fighting in Mexico.
This is a paraphrase but “Have you heard what they’re doing to animals in Mexico. I’m talking of course, about cat juggling! They take the little kitties, six weeks old… and they juggle them. Meow! Meow!”
Can’t remember which album, but it comes on my internet radio at least once a week.
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Michael May
May 1st, 2008 at
5:14 pm
Cat juggling? I do believe that’s a reference to The Jerk.
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Ben R.
May 1st, 2008 at
5:14 pm
Iron Balls McGinty! (no google or wikipedia here)
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Blaise Pascal
May 1st, 2008 at
5:36 pm
Steve Martin, both in standup, and in the movie The Jerk.
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Satyrsong
May 1st, 2008 at
5:36 pm
I have seen the Flying Karamazov Brothers actually juggle cats.
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Jen
May 1st, 2008 at
5:37 pm
Cat juggling reference is from Steve Martin: The Jerk - I own it.
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Sheldon
May 1st, 2008 at
5:41 pm
That has got to be the most inhumane thing ever. I can’t believe the mothers let these people do that to their children.
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Jay
May 1st, 2008 at
5:49 pm
“Wait! I’ve heard of this - CAT JUGGLING!”
The Jerk, with Steve Martin. Watched it last month for the first time in years and had forgotten how damn funny he is. Why aren’t movies that funny anymore?
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patiodog
May 1st, 2008 at
5:55 pm
Mr. Martin said, “I’m talking about, of course……. car juggling.”
It makes him sick, see.
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Reality Byte
May 1st, 2008 at
6:09 pm
It was way before The Jerk. I have an old album of Steve Martin and it’s on there.
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Stubbs
May 1st, 2008 at
6:15 pm
Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t Steve Martin ALSO play the man juggling cats in the video?
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Miss Cellania
May 1st, 2008 at
6:39 pm
Yes.
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CheeseDuck
May 1st, 2008 at
6:55 pm
Cat Juggling is horrible.
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media_lush
May 1st, 2008 at
7:10 pm
…… Steve Martin?, you really think so?
I’m pretty sure he ripped off the idea from when one of the Monty Pythons (Michael Palin) had the kittens down his pants sketch on SNL - I know he didn’t juggle them but the implication was there!
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molly
May 1st, 2008 at
8:36 pm
No! No! Send them away! There are a lot of people more deserving than me!
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Rebecca
May 1st, 2008 at
8:46 pm
Steve Martin is awesome and all, but I don’t know if you guys noticed the babies being dropped.
They just dropped babies.
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Rebecca
May 1st, 2008 at
8:46 pm
on purpose.
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trevorblanco
May 1st, 2008 at
8:57 pm
Didn’t he use that joke in his comedy album “Wild and Crazy guy”
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Ali S.
May 1st, 2008 at
9:08 pm
Oooook…. O_o
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Snappy
May 1st, 2008 at
9:19 pm
THE Jerk! (As in DA Bears!)
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Louise
May 1st, 2008 at
10:04 pm
“I don’t need this stuff, and I don’t need you. I don’t need anything except this.”
and he picks up….
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priscilla
May 1st, 2008 at
10:43 pm
@rachel. i was thinking the EXACT same thing.
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priscilla
May 1st, 2008 at
10:43 pm
ha…i meant rebecca.
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ted
May 1st, 2008 at
11:28 pm
o-k.
What’s sadder about this? The fact that people are deliberately dropping babies, or the fact that more people are obsessed with the cat juggling comment?I really have no idea.
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recidivista
May 2nd, 2008 at
1:09 am
well put, ted.
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Steve
May 2nd, 2008 at
1:40 am
“with vinyl, and stripes, and a cup built right.”
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Shadowman
May 2nd, 2008 at
3:29 am
Yeah, It’s the Jerk. That movie is funny as ever.
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Christophe
May 2nd, 2008 at
6:25 am
ted : I was about to make the same comment:
HELLOOOOOOW? DID ANYBODY SEE THE VIDEO?
What are the baby miss and maim statistics on that event?
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Angstrom
May 2nd, 2008 at
6:35 am
yep, that would be bad if their statistics went out of whack
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l'elk!
May 2nd, 2008 at
8:45 am
granted, they’re awfully talented at catching babies. all attempts i have taken at catching babies has turned out in vain.
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Adam Stanhope
May 2nd, 2008 at
9:10 am
Everybody drops their baby once and awhile. It builds the kids’ characters.
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Sheldon
May 2nd, 2008 at
9:23 am
Really Adam? NO. This video is awful, and you guys are just obsessed with talking about Steve Martin. He’s a great actor and comedian, but did you watch the freakin video or did you just want to say “cat juggling, The JERK!” It’s sad really.
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SenorMysterioso
May 2nd, 2008 at
12:22 pm
I have no problem with this video. Steven Martin, however, is a unfunny and I still do not understand why he was so big for so long.
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Adam Stanhope
May 2nd, 2008 at
1:03 pm
Sheldon, et al:
1. The very idea of “cat juggling” is intrinsically funny
2. 1970s Steve Martin will always be funny
3. Dropping babies 50 ft. from a mosque’s rooftop in Western India is the coolest -
recidivista
May 2nd, 2008 at
4:40 pm
1. hilarious! due, in large part to its impropriety
2. absolutely!
3. as a comedic conceptlemme get this straight:
in the movies: “hidden camera film footage “smuggled out” of somewhere showing people CAT JUGGLING - a crime so heinous that it outrages Johnson.”
in real life: junknews footage of people dropping babies from 50 ft is cool, and reminds people of a funny bit they saw… -
Shelby
May 2nd, 2008 at
9:38 pm
These are referred to as “lucky babies”?! Isn’t it more like “moronic parents”?
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