Me either. It's comedian Zack Galifianakis, who stars, along with indie rocker and actor Will Oldham - another bearded dude who also doesn't look like Kanye West
that, these days, records as Bonnie Prince Billy and was great in Kelly Reichardt's beautifully melancholy 2006 movie Old Joy - as a couple of chainsaw wielding/tractor driving farmer types in an alternative video treatment of West's single "Can't Tell Me Nothing." It strange, to say the least.
This is another case of professional showbiz types horning in on YouTube territory. People like to post short, funny home made videos on YouTube, so Will Ferrell and his buddies got into business of making short, funny look-like-their-home-made videos on Funny or Die.
And Kanye, seen here with his feet on fire, is working hard to make sure that Graduation, his album that's due Sept. 11, the same day that 50 Cent's Curtis comes out - burns up the charts upon its release. So, having already made his own video for "Can't Tell Me" which you can watch here, makes another version just like the funny ones people make on YouTube, only you have to go to his web site to watch it.
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