So yesterday was America’s birthday — and what better way to celebrate it by showing you two versions of that classic American song…Cuban Pete? Jim Carrey popularized it with new generations in the 1994 movie “The Mask.” But first, here’s the originator of the song — Desi Arnaz doing the song his way in the 1950s — in the number Jim Carrey emulated:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie4qmEUHjMA
Five years later, on the same show, “I Love Lucy,” he did it alone:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zO_a_eY7Fb4
And now here’s the Jim Carrey version — made even funnier by being lip synced by a kid who shows great comedy potential in own right:
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.